solidarity

The autors develop a new understanding of borders that evolves around the notions of technoecoogy in relation to Felix Guattari and the idea of feminist transversal politics as proposed by Nira Yuva-Davis. They advocate for a solidarity that extends beyond the human and that encompasses more-than-human liefworlds, too, since people and their mulit-species others are entangled in complex border relations. By pointing to two examples that relate borders, people, other species, geologies, technologies, politics and discourses of (more-than-human) exclusion, the authors foreground these entangled relations and the agential cuts enacted by bordering processes.

The six contributions to this forum on feminist border theory offer different perspectives on the relations between gender, borders, power, identity, difference and solidarity. The authors use feminist theory to illustrate and analyze gendered border politics, violent border struggles, and practices of bordering at and beyond national borders. They illustrate their arguments using examples from the US-Mexican border and Italian borders, referring to domestic workers’ movements, racist politics of division and family separations. Furthermore, they show as well how bordered identities, Neplanta activism and coalitions across differences in border(land) spaces can lead to new forms of solidarity, identity and resistance.