Paper short abstract:

The objective is to rethink the production of the borderland as a dispositive for capturing spaces and subjectivities, conferring special attention to the different geographies that are put in relation to carry out the capture itself.

Paper long abstract:

The border cannot be anymore read as a line where the state sovereignty limit is established. On the contrary, the border has to be reconceptualized as a complex knowledge-power dispositive that is characterized by its movement and elasticity. In a socio-political context marked by the various hybridizations that are unleashed between the neoliberal, the security and the neocolonial, the border emerges as a determining element in the current reconfiguration of the social in what refers to the ordering of mobility regimes.

From this approach it is intended to reconceptualize the border from a double dimension. The first refers to the complex topology of the border; through this idea we seek to move away from a dichotomous vision that reproduces in one way or another the inside-outside distinction. The topology works as an intricate fold of spaces that gives rise to a complex network of geographies put in connection. The second dimension delves into the idea that the border is a heterogeneous dispositive to capture spaces and subjectivities territorializing what should be the practice of spaces and mobility.

Consequently, when these two dimensions are put in relation, what emerges is a vision of the border as a martial and securitarian governmentality that alters in a dynamic and contingent way its complex topology, its increasingly militarized techno-network, to exercise a capture in which unfolds a mutation of the war.