| ID | 138983 |
| Title Proper | Embrace of border security |
| Other Title Information | maritime jurisdiction, national sovereignty, and the geopolitics of operation sovereign borders |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Chambers , Peter |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Border security has become one of the key means by which the sovereignty and security of powerful nation-states is projected. This paper offers a set of observations of the Australian Commonwealth’s descriptions and instructions for its embrace of border security. Border security is legible here as a geopolitics that transforms the rights and responsibilities of maritime jurisdictions into a space of security that projects national sovereignty through the interdiction of boat arrivals. Its intensification as Operation Sovereign Borders is read as a further variation within national sovereignty, one that elevates the decisionist prerogative into total deterrence. Operation Sovereign Borders pushes the limits of sovereignty’s existence in the state toward a total domination of space, perception and human life in Australia’s maritime jurisdictions, in the name of the nation. This necessitates the development, defence and reinforcement of a regionally engaged materiality that is embodied, extended, enacted, and distributed. The intended effect of this coordinated effort is to secure the nation’s sovereignty as a unity, but the broader effect has been to devalue offshore life to secure onshore interests, in a way that now necessitates indefinite offshore detention. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol. 20, No.2; 2015: p.404-437 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol: 20 No 2 |
| Key Words | Maritime Security ; National Sovereignty ; Maritime Jurisdiction ; Embrace of Border Security ; Geopolitics of Operation ; Sovereign Borders ; Operation Sovereign Borders ; Australia’s Maritime Jurisdictions ; Offshore Detention ; Defence and Reinforcement ; National Objective ; Australian Law |