Book Launch and Discussion of Minding Borders: Resilient Divisions in Literature, the Body and the Academy
A discussion marked the publication of OCCT's latest book, Minding Borders: Resilient Divisions in Literature, the Body and the Academy, edited by Nicola Gardini, Adriana Jacobs, Ben Morgan, Mohamed-Salah Omri and Matthew Reynolds. The authors were in conversation with Matt Longo whose book The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security and the Citizen after 9/11 was also published in 2017. 'Rather than celebrating the crossing of borders, or dreaming of their abolition, Minding Borders traces their troubling and yet generative resilience. It explores how borders define as well as exclude, protect as well as violate, and nurture some identities while negating others. The contributors range comparatively across geography, politics, cultural circulation, creativity, and the structuration of academic disciplines, hoping that the analysis of borders in one domain may illuminate their workings in another. Whatever other form a border takes it is always also a border in the mind.'
