Recent developments at the borders of the European Union have sparked discussions on the way Europe manages and exerts control over its borders. Different commentators are questioning why asylum-seekers cannot fly to Europe rather than risking their lives in the Mediterranean and there are voices arguing that barbed-wire fences should not be part of the European landscape for people fleeing dangerous situations in their place of origin. Tackling these questions require however our ability to re-think the way in which border management is currently being conducted. How did we get to manage the border in the way it is done today? Are other types of bordering possible? Do we have the tools to question current border management? Departing from a definition of the border that moves beyond a territorial line and into institutional and discursive practices that are reproduced in a daily basis, this presentation explores our current conditions of possibility to question and re-imagine the border of Europe and its futures. Speaker: Jorge H. Ojeda Castro.
