Titlebook: Globalization and Borders; Death at the Global Leanne Weber,Sharon Pickering Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publish

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Charting the Global Frontier (2005, p. 185) reminds us: ‘The border is an ongoing accomplishment, yet the processes by which it is continually produced are erased by its apparent self-evidence.’ Constituting borders through geographical barriers or in terms of other taken-for-granted physical referents presents them as ‘primor

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Counting and Discounting Border Deaths (2010) we live in a ‘hyper-numeric’ world in which something counts because it can be counted. On the one hand, quantification can transform the political domain into a docile arena where the ‘a(chǎn)pparent facticity’ of numbers can silence debate. On the other hand, in contemporary democracies, numbers

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Accounting for Deaths at the Border political claims about the border that align most closely with established accounts of border enforcement. This chapter considers the possibilities of developing a richer picture of death at the border to counter predominant managerialist methods of counting death, one that may not be easily co-opt

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Structural Violencended or unintended, and can be perpetrated through either direct or indirect means, by individuals or institutions. Structural violence is characterized primarily by the absence of visible actors and is associated with forms of violence that are largely unintended. In this chapter we identify many a

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Suspicious Deathsts, private contractors working for the state, people smugglers, border vigilantes and other private individuals. Although the chains of responsibility leading to these deaths may be more clearly discernible than the examples of ‘death by policy’ discussed in the previous chapter, they must also be

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