Multi-disciplinary perspectives on politics in borderlands: toward a fairer, more democratic life in the central US–Mexico border commons

Kathleen Staudt

Chapter 15 in Border Studies, 2025, pp 291-309 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter emphasizes the importance of first understanding borderlands from within border spaces, in historical and contemporary periods, best done through multi-disciplinary perspectives, theories, and methods. Drawing on field research in the central US–Mexico interdependent borderlands, the chapter covers, in dialectical ways, the bordering, debordering, and rebordering of common border spaces showing people's movements and flows amid interaction with and countering practices to statist narratives, especially emanating from the US, on the original territorial line drawn in the mid-nineteenth century, but subsequently about security, trade, and health pandemic controls which depend on the control of labor movement and unequal wages for the neoliberal model to prevail. For more democratic and fairer border common grounds, this chapter concludes with a call for inclusive cross-border ‘governance’ that goes beyond a neoliberal ideological agenda and privileged business connections.

Keywords: Borderlands; Bordering; Cross-border governance; Border people; Multi-disciplinarity; Border commons (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800375383
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