"Borders, Fences, Firewalls. Assessing the changing relationship of territory and institutions"

Workshops, conferences 2017

  • Start: Oct 19, 2017
  • End: Oct 20, 2017
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen
  • Room: Library Hall
"Borders, Fences, Firewalls. Assessing the changing relationship of territory and institutions"
Conference at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Department of Ethics, Law and Politics • Recent years have provided us with new images of a world in which persons can interact almost seamlessly regardless of distance. Various private and public institutions draw on changing means of communication and transport that seem to transcend particular spaces and times. Concepts such as liquid democracy suggest the revolutionary potential of digital media for our thinking about politics. At the same time, we are also witnessing an unbroken and even growing focus on securing territorial borders.

Critiques of disembodied perspectives on norms and persons join with the emphasis on space’s significance for human interactions, often described as the “spatial turn”. Are we moving past a territorially defined order – or do we see a return of border walls? Are territorial borders being complemented or replaced by other forms of boundaries, tighter firewalls and/or private fences?

The conference offers a forum for addressing the complex and shifting interrelations between territory and institutions.


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