Chiara Brambilla considers globalised capitalism as a fundamentally geographical project, insofar as it is based on the relation between State, territory and capital, which are themselves closely connected to geographical concepts such as borders and landscapes. The resulting unevenly developed landscape constitutes the basis of modern capitalism. For Chiara Brambilla, it is necessary to offer new concepts for rather classical and static key geographical concepts such as “landscapes” and “borders” in order to produce an alternative (geo)political vision of capitalism. This is how she came up with the borderscape concept, which refers to the processual character of border landscapes, and uses it by drawing on Mezzadra and Neilson (2013) in order to produce a geographical opposition to capitalism.
The first part (part I) is devoted to conceptual aspects of border studies. Geopolitics are elaborated in part II. In part III, border enforcement in the 21st century is studied. Part IV is dedicated to the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion implied by border tracing. The following section (part V) is devoted to the role of borders in everyday lives. The borderless world hypothesis is questioned. The next two parts entitled Crossing Borders (VI) and Creating Neighbourhoods (VII), are dedicated to borderlands and cross-border processes. In the final part (VIII) the interactions with nature and environment at the border are treated.
