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Opinion: What Are Borders For?

The evolution of borders has implications for human rights and international relations -and for the vision of sovereignty that has shaped both since territorial jurisdiction was first embraced. For most of history, borders marked sovereignty or self-determination. Now their purpose seems to have changed, says Joshua Jelly-Schapiro in the New Yorker.

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https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/what-are-borders-for

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What Are Borders For? - Illustration © Jon Han

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer. He is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World (Knopf, 2016) and the co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (California, 2016).  He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Harper's, Artforum, ao. His work which often focuses on place, race, and how human difference is thought about and acted on in the world. He earned his PhD in geography at Berkeley. He teaches at NYU.

www.joshuajellyschapiro.com

Joshua Jelly-Shapiro on Academia

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