This article proposes a conceptual shift from political borders – essentially State borders in Modern times – as a structuring element of the unevenly developed landscape of the geography of capitalism, or, as a method of capital to «borderscapes» as a method for a geographical opposition to capitalism. Specifically, the article discusses the potential of a critical rethinking of the concepts of «border» and «landscape» by mobilizing the borderscape notion to cope with the con- tradictions of capitalism and to search for strategies able to face them at both theoretical and practical level. If capitalism has always been a fundamentally geographical project, as a number of scholars have argued, it seems necessary to think of a geographical alter- native to it. Such an alternative cannot help but question some themes in the heart of ge- ographical knowledge – in this article the themes of borders and landscape – inspiring a new (geo)political imagination for practicing a geographical opposition to capitalism.

(2015). Dal confine come metodo del capitale al paesaggio di confine come metodo per un'opposizione geografica al capitalismo [journal article - articolo]. In BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/66831

Dal confine come metodo del capitale al paesaggio di confine come metodo per un'opposizione geografica al capitalismo

Brambilla, Chiara
2015-01-01

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This article proposes a conceptual shift from political borders – essentially State borders in Modern times – as a structuring element of the unevenly developed landscape of the geography of capitalism, or, as a method of capital to «borderscapes» as a method for a geographical opposition to capitalism. Specifically, the article discusses the potential of a critical rethinking of the concepts of «border» and «landscape» by mobilizing the borderscape notion to cope with the con- tradictions of capitalism and to search for strategies able to face them at both theoretical and practical level. If capitalism has always been a fundamentally geographical project, as a number of scholars have argued, it seems necessary to think of a geographical alter- native to it. Such an alternative cannot help but question some themes in the heart of ge- ographical knowledge – in this article the themes of borders and landscape – inspiring a new (geo)political imagination for practicing a geographical opposition to capitalism.
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Brambilla, Chiara
(2015). Dal confine come metodo del capitale al paesaggio di confine come metodo per un'opposizione geografica al capitalismo [journal article - articolo]. In BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/66831
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