Border Security

<p>What kind of a world is one in which border security is understood as necessary? How is this transforming the shores of politics? And why does this seem to preclude a horizon of political justice for those affected? <i>Border Security</i> responds to these questions through an interdisciplinary exploration of border security politics and justice. Drawing empirically on the now notorious case of Australia the book pursues a range of theoretical perspectives – including Foucault’s work on power the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann and the cybernetic ethics of Heinz Von Foerster – in order to formulate an account of the thoroughly constructed and political nature of border security. Through this detailed and critical engagement the book’s analysis elicits a political alternative to border security from within its own logic: thus signaling at least the beginnings of a way out of the cost cruelty and devaluation of life that characterises the enforced reality of the world of border security.</p>