The Open Border

The Open Border

The objective of this article is to consider the volition of boundary as an opening in otherness, establishing a dialogue with Giorgio Agamben’s work La Comunidad que viene [The community to come]. Beyond the conception of borders as demarcation, this article approaches the boundary as a constructio...

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Main Author: Yago Mellado López
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) 2008-09-01
Series:Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
Subjects:
Boundaries
cultural identity
Online Access:http://www.cidob.org/es/content/download/7662/78627/file/mellado_82-83.pdf
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The Open Border
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
Boundaries
cultural identity
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description The objective of this article is to consider the volition of boundary as an opening in otherness, establishing a dialogue with Giorgio Agamben’s work La Comunidad que viene [The community to come]. Beyond the conception of borders as demarcation, this article approaches the boundary as a construction through contact, and which produces the articulation of us/them and of the Other, and not the other way round. In this way, the volition of boundaries appears, without any desire to escape towards a common abstract space or toward an elimination of categorisation, but simply as the registering of an opening in the never-ending fabric of our identities.
topic Boundaries
cultural identity
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