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Join us for a seminar with Ayelet Shachar on the changing nature of borders in contemporary governance. Shachar will draw on the theoretical framework developed in her book The Shifting Border (Manchester University Press, 2020), which analyzes recent developments and the growing use of surveillance technologies that extend state power far beyond traditional territorial lines.
Shachar will examine the outward expansion of border controls through EU “externalization” policies alongside the inward intrusion of bordering practices in the United States. She will explore how these shifting bordering practices strain conventional understandings of sovereignty and unsettle the idea of the border as a clearly demarcated line on a map. As borders become increasingly mobile and diffused, Shachar argues, they erode constitutional and human rights protections, contribute to democratic backsliding, and intensify contestation over political membership.
