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“The Diffuse Border: Intelligence-Sharing, Control and Confinement Along Canada’s Smart Border”

Taking its cue from Deleuze’s reading of Foucault’s notion of apparatus (dispositif), this article explores the assemblage of mechanisms, institutions, discourses and practices that came to be conceptualized as a “smart border.” Through an examination of Canadian policy documents, this article analyses the smart border as a “diffuse border.” Physically extending beyond and inside its … Seguir leyendo “The Diffuse Border: Intelligence-Sharing, Control and Confinement Along Canada’s Smart Border” →

Beyond Gender: Towards A Feminist Analysis of Humanitarianism and Development in Sri Lanka

The Right of Repatriation – Canadian Refugee Policy: The Case of Rwanda

This paper examines the principle of the right to repatriation and the Canadian dilemma in applying that principle in dealing with both refugees and the country from which they originally fled, Rwanda. It is particularly concerned with the right of individuals to be a member of a state and with the right to regain membership … Seguir leyendo The Right of Repatriation – Canadian Refugee Policy: The Case of Rwanda →

Acting in a Tight Spot: Homi Bhabha’s Postcolonial Politics

Homi Bhabha’s writing on postcolonial agency foregrounds discursive subjection, yet retrieves subaltern subterfuge. It reconstructs a critical politics despite and because of hegemonic and orientalist representational systems. And it demonstrates the (im)possibility of a stable subject, but still manages to assert creative and performative agency. The article endeavours to analyse these feats and paradoxes, relying … Seguir leyendo Acting in a Tight Spot: Homi Bhabha’s Postcolonial Politics →