While religious borders separate communities and contribute to inter-religious violence, the definitions of those borders frequently arouse intense debate. In South Asia, religious borders led to the Partition of India and Pakistan, which pressured Sindhi Hindus, like other comm…
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The fullest and most comprehensive unpacking of the term finis has yet to be achieved. Studies have narrowly focussed on the idea of border, boundary or frontier, without even entertaining the prospect of interpreting the study from the ancient point of view. This investigation …
This thesis explores EU borders and bordering in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the context of the 2004 EU enlargement, the 2007 extension of the Schengen zone and the 2004 Eastern Dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) that, in 2009, was upgraded to the Easte…
This thesis provides a moral analysis of micro-regional forces in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, using the framework of the New Regionalism Approach (NRA). It presents an original contribution to the field through the addition of the Ghanaian-Ivoirian case study, as well as a unique a…
This dissertation argues for a reconceptualization of the 1947 Partition of India as the occurrence of a historical trauma. In contrast to the story of the Partition as an epiphenomenal event of independence, I suggest that the division of British India into the new nations of I…
This dissertation investigates the process through which identity categories are created, institutionalized, and contested by analyzing boundary making narratives and practices in the borderlands of India and Bangladesh. Although the border has been in place since the 1947 parti…
The Secret History of Paranoia, Borders and Terrorism in American Postwar Literature and Film explores the historical re-articulations of paranoia around the problems of borders and terrorism. The introduction discusses the first English definition of "paranoia" in 1811—"alienat…
This dissertation examines the role of Euro-American women in the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. I argue that American prostitutes and reformers figured centrally in the establishment of a fortified international boundary and in the making of…
Rather than starting with physical form as "state"-centered theories do, a more useful theoretical model should begin with the content of political units. Specifically, this model should examine a crucial element of the content of a political unit, the "source of transcendent cr…
This dissertation focuses on overlapping religious, legal, and spatial-political mechanisms through which the Italian state, the European Union (EU), and the Catholic Church manage undocumented migration and legal and cultural identities of citizens and non-citizens. It analyzes…
The creation of the E.U., a polymorphous political, economic and ideological space, has transformed and distended European states' national borders. This Europeanization of national borders has made all E.U. borders equally appealing to migrants and refugees. Instead of détente …
This dissertation examines pre-colonial and colonial political upheaval and transformation in a West African region that today extends across Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, and Guinea. It demonstrates how a corridor of small, independent communities repeatedly resisted incu…
The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Europe were a period of heightened European anxiety over the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire. The successful incursion of the Ottomans into the West posed a viable threat to the borders of Europe. Previous scholarship on early modern images…
In 1974, after forty years of negotiations over the disputed sovereignty of the Al-Ain/Buraimi region, Zararah/Shaybah, and Khor al-Udaid, the governments of Saudi Arabia and the UAE signed the Treaty of Jeddah, apparently ending the dispute. But the dispute was not settled as f…
What happens to an imperial economy after empire? How do economics, security, and ideology interact at the new state frontiers? Does trade always break down ideological barriers?
This dissertation examines the relationality of dispossession, racialization, and migration in Detroit, connecting the neoliberal rationality of (re)development to its foundations in Indigenous dispossession and racialized labor. "(Sī'tĭng) Detroit" understands Detroit as a bord…
This work seeks to draw a thread through the academic approaches of conceptualizing space and time—through history and cartography—across their development and with an eye specifically towards their role in the formation of borders. It seeks to draw out the manner in which such …
Borders today are commonly perceived as sites of tension and conflict. Whether conceptualized as territorial borders that purport to physically separate nations or social, political and cultural borders that ideologically split individuals, the idea of a border as impenetrable a…
What are the consequences of expanded US border and immigration enforcement in the Americas? How do migrant policing, apprehension, and removal alter livelihoods, landscapes, and wellbeing in migrant-sending communities? Despite decades of mass apprehension and removal of undocu…