Contribution to Book
Border Politics: Creating a Dialogue between Border Studies and Social Movements
Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization
(2014)
Abstract
This chapter discusses the benefits of combining border studies and social movement theoretical and conceptual frameworks for generating more nuanced understandings of border politics. It demonstrates how a feminist, intersectional approach directs attention to the embeddedness of movements in particular sites of political struggle as well as the ways in which unequal power relations shape the local and extralocal terrain on which movements develop and operate. Bringing to bear theoretical conceptualizations of borders and boundaries on social movement analysis also emphasizes the interrelatedness among various aspects of social movements—cultural meanings, collective identities, activist strategies, political practices, and socioeconomic and political environments—to generate an intersectional, explanatory framework for movement dynamics in an age of globalization.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2014
Editor
Nancy A. Naples, Jennifer Bickham Mendez
Publisher
New York University Press Scholarship
ISBN
9781479898992
DOI
https://www.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479898992.003.0013
Citation Information
Jennifer Bickham-Mendez. "Border Politics: Creating a Dialogue between Border Studies and Social Movements" New York, NYBorder Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jennifer-bickham-mendez/10/