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Asian Borders Globalized: Towards the Institutionalization of an Emerging Field

Fri, April 1, 12:45 to 2:45pm, Washington State Convention Center, Floor: 2nd Floor, Room 212

Session Submission Type: Organized Panel

Abstract

Within the European and North American contexts, border studies has over the last decade developed into a genuine interdisciplinary endeavor with sound autonomous institutional foundations, while remaining a field that encourages a catholic understanding of borders and how they function within the modern global political system. While empirical examples have been drawn from across the globe, however, theory continues to be developed within the western world and then applied beyond its borders. This panel is part of a wider project that aims to establish border studies in Asia as a recognized field within its own right, one that will prove to be both conceptually fertile and a dynamic ingredient in the development of a genuinely global border studies.

The four presenters on the panel shall present short introductions regarding the state of knowledge on borders in Asia within their respective areas of geographic expertise. Our distinguished discussant shall then explicitly bring each of these different examples of Asian borders into dialogue with Europe and North America, while the second hour of the session shall be devoted to a roundtable incorporating audience participation on the feasibility and desirability of an Asian-derived border studies field and how best it should be established. In particular, the manner in which many of the cross- and trans-border issues that will be discussed in the session pivot around China’s growing political and economic clout shall be drawn upon in relation to changes in border functions in both the European and American contexts.

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