The border separates nation states as containers of social, political and economic processes – have you ever questioned this?
Are the national and control borders natural to you?
Is the international migrant always going to be transgressor of naturalised territorial boundaries?
Examples of Bristol’s work:
Borderland Infrastructures
Read an MMB Blog Series on ‘Borderland Infrastructures’ exploring material and symbolic infrastructure of border regimes in the port city of Calais.
ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures (CenSoF)
The mobility of people and goods is profoundly implicated in inequality and sustainability. It is a field where global logistics meets justice. Research in the ‘moving domain’ of CenSoF looks at how digital technologies shape the movement of people and things, and considers the different futures that are made possible or closed down as a result of sociodigital changes.
In conversation about borders
In a conversation recorded at the plot in summer 2021, Tim Cole, Professor of History, and Peter Watts, Gardener at Royal Fort Gardens, talk about change, borders, movements of people, plants and soil, and languages of plants and race.