| ID | 103736 |
| Title Proper | Leave the lemons at home |
| Other Title Information | towards a political ecology of border space |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Rossiter, David A |
| Publication | 2011. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper presents a political ecology approach to the study of borders through consideration of a lemon's travels in contemporary North American border space. Following discussion of recent work on the dynamic, multi-scalar, and process-based character of modern borders, I suggest that such critical approaches could be usefully augmented by drawing on ideas about socio-material networks advanced by Bruno Latour. By adopting a political ecology framework, border scholars would be able to consider more fully the materiality of borders and bordering processes. Through the example of the lemon, I demonstrate that in constructing the fruit as a particular socio-material artifact that embodies multiple threats to US national space, it and its carrier become implicated in the regulation of political-economic and geopolitical networks that are seemingly far removed from the object of concern. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol. 16, No. 1; 2011: p.107-120 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol. 16, No. 1; 2011: p.107-120 |
| Key Words | Political Ecology ; Border Space ; North American Border Space ; Geopolitical Networks |