https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/INTR5783?type=COREThis course engages with borders and bordering practices in world politics - that is, ways in which lines, boundaries, caesuras are drawn between geographical entities, populations, groups, identities and ultimately, people - demarcating self and other, establishing hierarchical relationships and moral categories, authorizing particular modes of action and violence between them. Drawing on insights from critical international relations theory, critical border studies, critical security studies, political geography and art practice, as well as reviewing a range of contemporary issues - such as migration, counter-terrorism, surveillance and everyday experiences of (in)security - looks into how contemporary security practices and assemblages operate with modes of separation and classification ranging from physical walls through instruments of social sorting in the digital age to normalized, violent imaginations of 'otherness'. Ultimately, the course maps out everyday practices of resistance and negotiation through social struggles, art-based practice , activist scholarship and other expressions of dissent that seek to challenge, subvert or collapse such distinctions. The main objectives of the course are: To develop a theoretically and empirically informed understanding of contemporary security practices and their social, everyday negotiations through the analytical framework and thinking site of 'borders' To assess and analyse contemporary debates around 'borders' based on insights from critical theory, case studies, lived experience, cultural resources and art-based practice To facilitate a nuanced and holistic engagement with everyday experiences of (in)security and practices of social resistance by looking at a range of sites, actors, narrations and practices globally and in the European context To critically interrogate how bordering practices - ranging from physical infrastructures through instruments of social sorting to everyday assumptions and affective economies - produce hierarchies, exclusions and imaginations of otherness, and to reflect on their ethical and political implications for world politics To explore and experiment with creative, participatory and art-based methods as modes of researching, representing and contesting borders, cultivating capacity to connect scholarly inquiry with critical, situated (everyday) practice