Border Thinking on the Edges of the West

Crossing Over the Hellespont

Andrew Davison

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Routledge
08 November 2016

Geopolitics

Series: Worlding Beyond the West

"Drawing on scholarly and life experience on, and over, the historically posited borders between ""West"" and ""East,"" the work identifies, interrogates, and challenges a particular, enduring, violent inheritance – what it means to cross over a border – from the classical origins of Western political thought. The study has two parts. The first is an effort to work within the Western tradition to demonstrate its foundational and enduring, violent conception of crossing over borders. The second is a creative effort to explore and encourage a fundamentally different outlook towards borders and what it means to be on, at, or over them. The underlying social theoretical disposition of the work is a form of post-Orientalist hermeneutics; the textual subject matter of the two parts of the study is linked using Walter Benjamin's concept of the storyteller.

The underlying premise of the work is that the sense of violent possibility on the borders between ""West"" and ""East"" existed well before the more recent ""age of imperialism"" and even before there was a ""West"" or an ""East"" to speak of. That sense is constitutive of a political imagination about borders developed deep within the revered sources of Western culture. On the other hand, confronting the influence of such violent imaginaries requires truly novel modes of hermeneutical openness, hospitality and solidarity.

Seeking to offer a new understanding and opening in the study of borders, this work will provide a significant contribution to several areas including international relations theory, border studies and political theory."

By: Andrew Davison
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138287860
ISBN 10: 1138287865
Series: Worlding Beyond the West
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 08 November 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew Davison is Professor of Political Science at Vassar College, USA.

Reviews for Border Thinking on the Edges of the West: Crossing Over the Hellespont

"‘Andrew Davison’s book is a fascinating read. It is a highly original work … the reader comes out greatly enlightened on what it means to talk about ""borders."" Not only does ""border thinking"" clearly occur, but the author also successfully manages to provide an alternative vision of how to think of a world beyond borders. … This book is contributing to the development of fulfilling and satisfying transformation of a political analysis of literature that no longer thinks through borders between different bodies of literature. This book does not teach how to ""cross"" meaningfully and ethically a border but rather how to erase the artificial’ — Juliette Tolay, Penn State Harrisburg, in ‘Political Theory’, Vol. 14/No. 2, June 2016, pp. 547-548"