Late-night hotel reading, this novel had been sitting in my shelf for a while, truly gorgeous and original, ultimately a novel against borderization loaded with bold literary choices. Really enjoyed it.
November 15, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Late-night hotel reading, this novel had been sitting in my shelf for a while, truly gorgeous and original, ultimately a novel against borderization loaded with bold literary choices. Really enjoyed it.
I am happy to receive the 18th volume of the Critical Mexican Studies series at Vanderbilt UP: @emilyceleste.bsky.social Border Biomes, a contribution to understand the effects of borders on the environment and the literary and cultural representations of ecological harm caused by borderization
February 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I am happy to receive the 18th volume of the Critical Mexican Studies series at Vanderbilt UP: @emilyceleste.bsky.social Border Biomes, a contribution to understand the effects of borders on the environment and the literary and cultural representations of ecological harm caused by borderization
Grave human rights violations against the small remaining ethnic Georgian population are widespread, as are the illegal processes of "borderization," along with frequent abductions and killings.
August 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Grave human rights violations against the small remaining ethnic Georgian population are widespread, as are the illegal processes of "borderization," along with frequent abductions and killings.
China is reportedly moving border fences inside #Myanmar territory in northern Shan State, with villagers saying fields, streams, and old boundary markers have been swallowed behind steel, concrete, and #surveillance camera networks. #Borderization www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmar...
March 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
China is reportedly moving border fences inside #Myanmar territory in northern Shan State, with villagers saying fields, streams, and old boundary markers have been swallowed behind steel, concrete, and #surveillance camera networks. #Borderization www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmar...
russia’s GRU Conducts Psychological Warfare to Undermine Georgia’s Sovereignty Since 2008 - Oj
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Russia’s GRU Conducts Psychological Warfare to Undermine Georgia’s Sovereignty Since 2008 - Oj
Since 2008, Russia’s GRU has waged psychological warfare on Georgia, using borderization, propaganda, and economic pressure to weaken its sovereignty and resistance.
odessa-journal.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
russia’s GRU Conducts Psychological Warfare to Undermine Georgia’s Sovereignty Since 2008 - Oj
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Fiona McCormack’s essay, “Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship,” engages with climate, capitalism, and decolonial critique, examining how marine spaces materialize global inequalities through regimes of extraction, governance, and labor.
December 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Fiona McCormack’s essay, “Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship,” engages with climate, capitalism, and decolonial critique, examining how marine spaces materialize global inequalities through regimes of extraction, governance, and labor.
In a world that is fast becoming more chaotic, #borderization could turn out to be an increasingly common tactic for strong countries to subjugate smaller neighbours. bigthink.com/strange-maps... #Bhutan #不丹
Why China is eating its tiny neighbor, Bhutan
As Beijing encroaches on the territory of the Himalayan kingdom, its ultimate aim is leverage over India.
bigthink.com
August 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
In a world that is fast becoming more chaotic, #borderization could turn out to be an increasingly common tactic for strong countries to subjugate smaller neighbours. bigthink.com/strange-maps... #Bhutan #不丹
I have uploaded a preprint of my recent paper, "Borderization in Georgia: A mobility perspective", in
@socarxivbot.bsky.social :
osf.io/preprints/so...
It was accepted in Mobilities and will soon be published online in the journal.
@socarxivbot.bsky.social :
osf.io/preprints/so...
It was accepted in Mobilities and will soon be published online in the journal.
April 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I have uploaded a preprint of my recent paper, "Borderization in Georgia: A mobility perspective", in
@socarxivbot.bsky.social :
osf.io/preprints/so...
It was accepted in Mobilities and will soon be published online in the journal.
@socarxivbot.bsky.social :
osf.io/preprints/so...
It was accepted in Mobilities and will soon be published online in the journal.
Tsewang Dorji Jeshong (TPI) examines how border villages, dams, roads, railways, & airports across Tibet are strengthening Beijing’s strategic reach along the India–Tibet border. www.firstpost.com/opinion/chin... #borderization
September 26, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Tsewang Dorji Jeshong (TPI) examines how border villages, dams, roads, railways, & airports across Tibet are strengthening Beijing’s strategic reach along the India–Tibet border. www.firstpost.com/opinion/chin... #borderization
Read @robbiebarnett.bsky.social’s #borderization case study investigating PRC cross-border villages in #Bhutan turquoiseroof.org/forceful-dip... #grayzone #不丹
China’s Cross-Border Villages in Bhutan
In 2016, China began constructing a village in territory generally understood to be part of Bhutan.
turquoiseroof.org
September 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Read @robbiebarnett.bsky.social’s #borderization case study investigating PRC cross-border villages in #Bhutan turquoiseroof.org/forceful-dip... #grayzone #不丹
So many excellent articles in the recent issue of @culanth.bsky.social Particular shoutout for @fmcc.bsky.social look at Blue Growth Extractivism in Aotearoa where she argues "the relationality of tribal seascapes becomes an obstacle to capital accumulation" journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...:
Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship
| Cultural Anthropology
journal.culanth.org
January 12, 2026 at 2:44 AM
So many excellent articles in the recent issue of @culanth.bsky.social Particular shoutout for @fmcc.bsky.social look at Blue Growth Extractivism in Aotearoa where she argues "the relationality of tribal seascapes becomes an obstacle to capital accumulation" journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...:
#Bhutan and #China held their 15th Expert Group Meeting on boundary issues in Beijing, led by Hou Yanqi and Letho Tobdhen Tangbi, with both sides describing the talks as “candid and constructive.”
Source: web.archive.org/web/20260401...
#borderization #不丹
Source: web.archive.org/web/20260401...
#borderization #不丹
April 1, 2026 at 6:19 PM
#Bhutan and #China held their 15th Expert Group Meeting on boundary issues in Beijing, led by Hou Yanqi and Letho Tobdhen Tangbi, with both sides describing the talks as “candid and constructive.”
Source: web.archive.org/web/20260401...
#borderization #不丹
Source: web.archive.org/web/20260401...
#borderization #不丹
* the Georgian authorities also shared they recorded eleven cases of 'borderization' activities along the occupation line - with increasing frequency since November.
This seems to indicate that after a relatively quiet period this picks up again.
This seems to indicate that after a relatively quiet period this picks up again.
February 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
* the Georgian authorities also shared they recorded eleven cases of 'borderization' activities along the occupation line - with increasing frequency since November.
This seems to indicate that after a relatively quiet period this picks up again.
This seems to indicate that after a relatively quiet period this picks up again.
NPR asks experts to use Planet Labs satellite imagery to anchor its reporting on India’s “Vibrant Villages” programme along the China border, documenting infrastructure disparities, & contrasting Delhi’s gradual build-out with rapid construction across the Line of Actual Control. #borderization
Both India and China are building up strategically-placed yet very remote villages along parts of their contested border, high up in the Himalayas. @npr.org went to some of the villages on the India side.
www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...
www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...
India has long promised 'vibrant' border villages, as China speedily builds up
India's government launched a Vibrant Villages Programme almost four years ago. But as China steadily builds up its side, Indian residents wonder what's taking so long.
www.npr.org
February 18, 2026 at 1:09 PM
NPR asks experts to use Planet Labs satellite imagery to anchor its reporting on India’s “Vibrant Villages” programme along the China border, documenting infrastructure disparities, & contrasting Delhi’s gradual build-out with rapid construction across the Line of Actual Control. #borderization
Meanwhile the ground moves one way. 628 xiaokang (小康) border villages across 21 #Tibet border counties, roughly 30bn yuan, dual-use by design, & filling with residents. Reopening a trade pass is reversible in an afternoon. A settled village is not. #borderization www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
China’s Great Wall of Villages (Published 2024)
China has moved thousands of people to new settlements on its frontiers. It calls them “border guardians.”
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Meanwhile the ground moves one way. 628 xiaokang (小康) border villages across 21 #Tibet border counties, roughly 30bn yuan, dual-use by design, & filling with residents. Reopening a trade pass is reversible in an afternoon. A settled village is not. #borderization www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gaëlle Le Pavic and I have researched geopolitical views in Georgia's communities affected by territorial conflicts and borderization. But we did it separately in our PhD and postdoc projects. Last year we joined forces and the result is this new publication:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/F7GI6...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/F7GI6...
Vernacular geopolitical orientations in Georgia’s contested border regions
This article examines how Georgian citizens living near contested borders with Abkhazia and South Ossetia perceive the European Union (EU) and Russia. While Georgia's EU integration is often framed...
www.tandfonline.com
May 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Gaëlle Le Pavic and I have researched geopolitical views in Georgia's communities affected by territorial conflicts and borderization. But we did it separately in our PhD and postdoc projects. Last year we joined forces and the result is this new publication:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/F7GI6...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/F7GI6...
IMO each of these is v unlikely bc the risk of escalation to full war w NATO would be v high. A bit less unlikely is some kind of “borderization” op in Svalbard (mostly demilitarized) or Aland Islands (fully demilitarized). The other three wld mean instant kinetic engagement w NATO forces.
🧵 Atlantic Council: Russia could test NATO through a limited attack. The main goal would not be territory, but testing whether NATO responds quickly and collectively.
Five scenarios are outlined.
1) a push through Lithuania to connect Kaliningrad with Belarus and cut off the Baltics;
Five scenarios are outlined.
1) a push through Lithuania to connect Kaliningrad with Belarus and cut off the Baltics;
July 26, 2026 at 8:26 PM
IMO each of these is v unlikely bc the risk of escalation to full war w NATO would be v high. A bit less unlikely is some kind of “borderization” op in Svalbard (mostly demilitarized) or Aland Islands (fully demilitarized). The other three wld mean instant kinetic engagement w NATO forces.
Have *you* checked out our latest journal issue? Full table of contents here, articles available open access at journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Have *you* checked out our latest journal issue? Full table of contents here, articles available open access at journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
For background on the broader border dynamics, see Robbie Barnett’s research on Chinese cross-border villages in #Bhutan:
turquoiseroof.org/forceful-dip...
#borderization #不丹
turquoiseroof.org/forceful-dip...
#borderization #不丹
April 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
For background on the broader border dynamics, see Robbie Barnett’s research on Chinese cross-border villages in #Bhutan:
turquoiseroof.org/forceful-dip...
#borderization #不丹
turquoiseroof.org/forceful-dip...
#borderization #不丹
@jleibold.bsky.social: Tibet’s 600+ xiaokang border villages are not simply development projects but “infrastructure nationalism”: settlement, subsidies, surveillance, & military-civil integration used to hardwire PRC sovereignty into the frontier. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #borderization
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September 22, 2026 at 1:21 PM
@jleibold.bsky.social: Tibet’s 600+ xiaokang border villages are not simply development projects but “infrastructure nationalism”: settlement, subsidies, surveillance, & military-civil integration used to hardwire PRC sovereignty into the frontier. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #borderization
We had a lively seminar yesterday with Nina Gren from Lund University, sharing her research on borderization and its social effects on families in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara. Thank you, Nina!
April 17, 2026 at 12:12 PM
We had a lively seminar yesterday with Nina Gren from Lund University, sharing her research on borderization and its social effects on families in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara. Thank you, Nina!
This is a point that Mbembe makes well. Borders are not simply infrastructure for blocking off of space, but a process ("borderization") for segmenting and evaluating populations of life.
Indigenous peoples entered these countries no differently from immigrants. When they were making up their citizenship criteria we were excluded for well over a hundred years. We were brought into the state and we can be pushed back out again.
I do not want to see another ignorant post about how the end of birthright citizenship means only Native people are citizens. This administration's attack on birthright citizenship STARTED by citing the unlawful notion that Tribal Citizens should not have US citizenship. edt
#indigisky #citizenship
#indigisky #citizenship
June 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is a point that Mbembe makes well. Borders are not simply infrastructure for blocking off of space, but a process ("borderization") for segmenting and evaluating populations of life.
My research in the Hungarian-Ukrainian borderland is part of my postdoctoral project 'Peripheral Geopolitics', completed last year at ELTE Budapest. The project also included research on Georgia's de facto borders with Abkhazia and South Ossetia:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/U4TCW...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/U4TCW...
Borderization in Georgia: a mobility perspective
‘Borderization’ refers to the process of installing fences and other infrastructures of control and surveillance by the Russian security services along the de facto boundary between Georgia and Sou...
www.tandfonline.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
My research in the Hungarian-Ukrainian borderland is part of my postdoctoral project 'Peripheral Geopolitics', completed last year at ELTE Budapest. The project also included research on Georgia's de facto borders with Abkhazia and South Ossetia:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/U4TCW...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/U4TCW...
As Xi arrives in New Delhi, a new @the-independent.com exclusive documents rapid Chinese infrastructure expansion along the disputed Arunachal Pradesh–Tibet frontier. @vantortech.bsky.social imagery www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/i... #borderization
Satellite images show China advancing into contested India border territory
Exclusive: While China’s leader is due to meet with Narendra Modi in India this weekend, people living in remote frontier villages tell Shweta Sharma they fear being pushed out of their ancestral land...
www.independent.co.uk
September 12, 2026 at 7:59 AM
As Xi arrives in New Delhi, a new @the-independent.com exclusive documents rapid Chinese infrastructure expansion along the disputed Arunachal Pradesh–Tibet frontier. @vantortech.bsky.social imagery www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/i... #borderization
Maybe not that provocative (?) but perhaps an island up north (Svalbard?) or a “borderization” move (see eg Georgia and S Ossetia) vs Estonia. Or maybe smthg dramatic on the hybrid front (eg cyber attack/undersea cables). Lots of possibilities w various escalation risks/implications.
Recently there was a post here quoting warnings that Putin may seize an island in the Baltic to try to precipitate such a “moment” for NATO - is that the sort of crisis you would expect?
April 23, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Maybe not that provocative (?) but perhaps an island up north (Svalbard?) or a “borderization” move (see eg Georgia and S Ossetia) vs Estonia. Or maybe smthg dramatic on the hybrid front (eg cyber attack/undersea cables). Lots of possibilities w various escalation risks/implications.