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Borders, when drawn on maps, protected by walls, or enforced by agencies of the modern state can seem like certain, immutable things. Their existence and their purpose seems well defined and considered an accepted fact by the vast majority of people. Members of a community are on one side and outsiders on the other.
Yet in reality, the real uncertainty of borders – both in recognising and maintaining them – is hard to miss.
Today, the mutability of borders is increasingly obvious. Whether in Brexiters in the United Kingdom, desperate to re-build divisions of a trans-national community, or efforts of the African Union to break down long-imposed barriers to better battle climate change. Growing connectivity demands a new means of controlling who can connect with whom, but the use of spacial segregation to control trade has been used throughout history.
It’s clear that lines on the map are not so certain after all.
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