Entrées

The concept of border as method views the border as an episteme that questions the relation of knowledge to action by adopting the logic of the border as an approach to research border multiplicities beyond territoriality and hegemonic paradigms.

Border thinking is a concept which constitutes a way of thinking that derives from the borderlands, is deeply rooted in the subaltern experience of coloniality, and which proposes alternative, decolonial ways of knowing, thinking, and becoming.

Tracing the roots and uses of the concept of borderlands, this article explains how this concept has gained prominence in Border Studies beyond its use in Chicanx Studies.

The ‘borderscapes’ approach overcomes thinking of borders in terms of territorial orders and reconstructs the (de)stabilization of borders through the complex interplay of their social effects and negotiations.