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The metaphors of globalization at the turn of the 21st century spoke of a ‘borderless’ world of free movement of goods capital and people, of flows traveling incessantly across regions and nations, of unstoppable global networks spanning ever more corners of the globe….while these metaphors have many elements of truth, what has become increasingly clear today is that ‘globalization’ -for lack of a better word-, is as much about erecting borders, monitoring or restricting movement as it is about a borderless world. Whether it be the increasingly global phenomena of gated communities, or the hardening/militarization of the North-South be it US-Mexico, EU-Africa, Australia-Pacific, Israel-Palestine… Additionally, borders no longer stop at the points where countries change colors on a school map---border regimes and the mechanisms they entail (patrol agents, asylum prisons, consulates, trafficking networks,…) but rather they extend beyond. Whether it be US military deployment to Southern Mexico to train local police in border patrolling; the building of European Union asylum processing centers in Cameroon; or bio-metric ID monitoring people at the airports of cities in the global north- the border is a place but also a set of mechanisms for creating a type of space and reordering the temporality-affect-movement-etc. of a given locale. Many artists, activists, and community folks in general, have begun to look towards critical mapping as a way of understanding, critiquing and intervening in the extension of the logic of the border regime. In this axis we seek to engage this existing work to see how cartography can be and is being used to deal with this pressing issues.
For the moment
there is a 3Cs project describing the emergence of new activist
social networks in southern Europe that seek to re-vision the spaces
of the city and the border. We focus on activist art movements that
have deployed mapping projects in innovative ways to re-map and
re-vision the complex spatial practices and experiences of the city,
and on groups actively involved in attempts to deploy art and mapping
to destabilize the increasingly hard borders of Europe. See also:
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