Barriers and Borders

Thought Pieces

Essays presented at Barriers and Borders workshops.

*Please note these are working papers. Do not cite or circulate any text without the author's express permission. *

United Kingdom. State or Empire?
14 July 2023

Seeing the global agency of those who 'stood still': Economic borders and the formation of the UK Union

Sionaidh Douglas-Scott

Sovereignty, borders and constitutional amnesia

Gabriel Glickman

Religion, Nationhood and Anglo-Scottish relations 1603-1714

State or empire? The UK and its analogues, 1800-1925

Ireland under James VI/I

Please contact the author.

Foreign nationals and internal borders in the United Kingdom during the First World War

Medieval “states” or “colonies”? The Anglo-Welsh Marcher lordships, ca. 1067-1300

Conor Morrissey

A new frontier? Repartition and Northern Ireland, c.1971-75

Please contact the author.

Empires and States
24 February 2023

Richard F. Bensel

Metaphysics, History, and Politics

Michael Braddick

Absolutism, jurisdictional uniformity and societal reformation

Imperialism Revealed in the War. Russia Exposed

Franziska Exeler

The Three Empires' Border. Imperial Practices, Knowledge Transfer, and Everyday Experiences of Borders in East-Central Europe, 1815–1921

Settler Colonialism as a 'Structural Event': The Multiple Orders of Indigenous Rights and Political Identity

Victoria de Grazia

The Invention of Fascist Governmentality: How Italy challenged the Liberal International Order, 1925-1943

Internment in two World Wars and comparative thinking about modernising empires (ca. 1935-ca. 1955)

Victoria Tin-bor Hui

Borders and Barriers as Protection for the Weak on the Edges of Chinese Empires

Emmanuelle M. Saada

Interior frontiers and internal borders:
Colonialism, immigration, and the borders of Europe

Borders and the End of the Universal Temptation

Natasha Wheatley

The State's Frontiers – in Space and Time

Crossing Borders
22 July 2022

On the Use and Abuse of Crossing Borders

From tierra de nadie to terre brûlée - From Borderland to Border in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Extraterritorial mixed courts: crossing borders to enforce borders

Plebiscitary Boundaries around World War I

Joseph la Hausse de la Louvière

Undocumented People - Between Slavery and Freedom

Loren B. Landau

Temporal bordering and its undoing: Chronoscopy and resistance in an era of externalisation

Navigating borderlands: Mapping violence, endurance, and joy with Colombian migrant women in Chile

Constructing Borders
24-25 March 2022

Naor Ben-Yehoyada

As if they were brothers

Tulia Falleti (with Beth Simmons)

Indigenous Territories and the Creation of Nation-State Boundaries in the Americas

Claudio Lomnitz

Contact Frames and Contact Zones

The Globalization of the 19th century: Borders and the Reimagining of the World

Incarceration and the Local Origins of Border Policing

Kalyani Ramnath

Making Maritaime Boundaries in the Bay of Bengal

Beth Simmons (with Tulia Falleti)

Indigenous Territories and the Creation of Nation-State Boundaries in the Americas

Border as Proscenium