Governing Borders and Security

Catarina Kinnvall is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden, and author/editor of five books and numerous articles. Ted Svensson is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden, and author of Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan: Meanings of Partition (2013, Routledge).

• 1. Introduction: Bordering securities in a global world, Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson 2. Mobile Borders/Bordering Mobilities: Status Functions, Contemporary State Bordering Practices and Implications for Resistance and Intervention, Anthony Cooper and Chris Perkins 3. Joined-Up Security: A Genealogy, Mark Bevir 4. The Curious State of the Good Samaritan: Humanitarianism under Conditions of Security, Tugba Basaran 5. Border Thinking and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Reapproaching Global Governmentality and Eurocentrism, Katherine Allison 6. Negotiating Citizenships and Borders of Political Belonging, Paul Nesbitt-Larking 7. Community Arts, New Media and the De-Securitisation of Migration and Asylum Seeker Issues in the UK, Maria Rovisco 8. Bordering the Indefinite Nation: Pakistan, the Taliban and Desecuritised Religion, Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson 9. New Political Community and Governance at the Top of the World: Spatiality, Affinity and Security in the Arctic, Annika Bergman-Rosamond and Ben Rosamond 10. Conclusion, Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson

The volume strikes a contemplative balance between the everyday experiences of mobile subjects and the structural contingencies and histories of governance. As a new student of security studies, I appreciate the book’s cohesiveness across chapters. Taken as a whole, the volume situates narratives and imaginaries of threat as formulating state strategies of security, as well as notions of belonging. -- Justin Strong, Border Criminologies, MSc in Criminology from Northern Arizona University