The spatial and temporal organisation of digitised borders
Digitisation and the position of state borders
The notion that sovereign state borders are the only separators of political power and social organisation on a global scale has been comprehensively challenged within sociology and political geography. Research has illustrated that traditional conceptions of state sovereignty and borders fail to account for the hierarchy of countries, sources of political authority other than states, social identities and groupings that cut across state boundaries, and expressions of state-sovereign power that are not confined by territorial borders (Agnew, 1994, 2005; Beck, 2007). Nevertheless, state borders remain powerful political formations that ...
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