By Klaus Dodds, Sean Carter
Foreign Politics and movie introduces readers to the representational features of movie but additionally attracts realization to how the connection among the visible and the spatial is constitutive of overseas politics. utilizing 4 topics — borders, the kingdom of exception, place of origin and far away others — the territorial and imaginitive dimensions of foreign affairs specifically are highlighted. yet theis quantity additionally makes transparent that foreign politics is not only anything 'out there'; movie is helping us higher know the way it's also a part of lifestyle in the country — affecting participants and groups in numerous methods counting on axes of distinction similar to gender, race, category, age, and ethnicity.
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The border itself is the problem. It is the border, and the narratives that surround it, which demarcate lines that seem to demand constant policing and vigilance. For students of international politics, ‘border films’ remind us that the border, considered to be central to claims pertaining to national sovereignty and international boundaries, is a human creation that can be built, contested and undone in a variety of settings. A key feature of the contemporary border is the increasing use of technologies to control and regulate the flow of both bodies and objects across the border.
It is at that point that the mobility of the individual is interrogated and needs to be defended. The figure of Dixon in this film illustrates well the precariousness of the traveller – in this case Victor. The disciplinary effect of the airport and its associated security practices on citizens is striking and the manner in which visitors can be summarily deported even when the documents, passport and travel story align with one another. Until those state-sanctioned agents accept our status our existence is precarious, as Victor discovered; more so, as the film suggests, if you come from a fictional yet unstable country such as Krakozhia, which is clearly modelled on a former Soviet Republic.
The status of the border can therefore generate expressions of fear and hope – fear of exclusion, and hope that for some it might lead to the prospect of a better and more secure life. Border politics, therefore, can be considered as the ways in which states and state-sanctioned authorities control (or seek to control) the movement of people and goods through border politics. Indeed, the ability to control one’s borders can be seen as one of the key powers of the state; ‘Modern nation-states … rest their strength and legitimacy fundamentally on their capacities to monitor and control the flow of people and resources into and through their bounded territories’ (Herbert 2008: 1).