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Project Kraken: Surveillance and Liminality ‘On the Edge’ of Land and Water / Weaver, Duncan   Journal Article
Weaver, Duncan Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Project Kraken, an effort to combat terrorism and crime on the UK water network, is a valuable case that propels knowledge of surveillance. Whilst similar initiatives universalize surveillance participation, Kraken particularises it, occupying specific spaces and recruiting a delimited (maritime) community. Research observed, on one hand, Kraken’s spatial liminality, given its occupation of the land/water threshold, characterized by ‘edges’ through which humans, thought, and resources flow. On the other, agential liminality was observed given Kraken’s enlistment of the maritime community: ever ‘on the edge’ of land/water, peripheral to national security, yet endowed with knowledge useable by state. A marginal actor recruited ‘inwards,’ that community possesses a watery consciousness harnessed for raison d’état. Liminality offers a lens through which to assess such particularisation. A liminal approach, foregrounding the edge, helps overcome the binaries of inside/outside, land/water, offering fertile territory on which to revision power flows and more accurately situate the powerful and powerless in contemporary social science.
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Wakhan: Concomitance of the Local and International in Marginal Boundaries / Weaver, Duncan   Journal Article
Weaver, Duncan Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Wakhan, northeast Afghanistan’s peripheral panhandle, is situated between Afghanistan’s borders with Tajikistan, China and Pakistan. Once subject of Great Game rivalry, it requires multiagency fieldwork to better understand its geopolitical vulnerabilities. Existing accounts of Wakhan are deemed inadequate and inappropriate, exceptionalising its wildness and wilderness, and drawing (in)civility distinctions that legitimise a near-divine right to dominion. Reassessing Wakhan in a boundary biography, the paper argues that by conceiving boundaries as local manifestations of international dynamics, marginal boundary regions can serve as tests for the ‘state’ of international affairs. The paper firstly assesses evolving understandings of boundaries before conceiving them as local manifestations of international dynamics. Existing narratives are then observed to render the region subaltern.
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