Editorial: Smart Borders and Mobilities: Spaces, Zones, Enclosures
Editorial: Smart Borders and Mobilities: Spaces, Zones, Enclosures
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社论：智能边界和移动性：空间、区域、外壳
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2008
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M. Salter
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Louise Amoore;Stephen Marmura;M. Salter
边界一直被称为根本的政治制度；边界进程是社区最重要的角色之一，划定了内部和外部、我们和他们、安全和危险、已知和未知的边界。边界既代表了对政治和政治共同体的限制的呼吁，也代表了一种限制的技术--一种定义生活本身治理中可能发生的事情的手段。然而，尽管边境管理再次受到政策制定者的重视，但评估边境作为一个可定义的具体实体或进程的地位已经变得越来越有问题。例如，在我们撰写这篇社论时，英国政府宣布将生物识别控制、安全门、扫描和筛查扩展到火车站、购物中心和体育场的公共场所。除了其传统的地球物理特征外，边界还具有虚拟的、非属地化的属性。城堡、有围墙的城市和广阔的边境城垛已经被封闭式社区、广阔的边境地带和通过“远程控制”进行管理所取代。现代边界由渗入城市和社区的数据流、人工区和封闭空间构成，与旧的州和地理边界一样。本期《监督与社会》考虑了随着新的安全和贸易协定、蓬勃发展的国家和商业监督做法以及人员、物体和信息在全球范围内日益流动而不断演变的国际边界的特征。本文以四篇全文文章和一个多媒体艺术演示为特色，提请人们注意在9/11事件后的几年中合并的新的安全和监视制度推动了边界的重新配置。投稿人探讨了各种理论和实质性问题，包括现在与边界监管有关的监视做法的历史起源，边界日益分散到不同的空间和时间区域，新的监视范式的出现，边界安全的模拟和执行方面，以及边界管理和风险评估对不同类别的人的不同影响。
The border has been called the fundamental political institution; and the bordering process is one of the most important roles for community, delineating between inside and outside, us and them, safe and dangerous, known and unknown. Borders represent both an appeal to the limits in politics and of political community, and a technology of limits – a means of defining what is possible in the governing of life itself. Yet, even as border management has taken on a renewed emphasis for policy makers, assessing the border’s status as a definable, concrete entity or process has become increasingly problematic. As we write this editorial, for example, the British government announces the extension of biometric controls, security gates, scanning and screening into the public spaces of the railway station, shopping mall and sports stadium. In addition to its traditional geophysical characteristics, the border has taken on virtual, de-territorialized attributes as well. Castles, walled cities, and extensive border battlements have been replaced by gated communities, expansive border zones, and management by “remote control.” The contemporary border is constituted as much by data-flows, artificial zones and spaces of enclosure that seep into the city and the neighbourhood, as by older state and geographic boundaries. This issue of Surveillance & Society considers the evolving character of the international border in the wake of new security and trade agreements, burgeoning state and commercial surveillance practices, and the increasing global mobility of persons, objects and information. Featured here are four full-length articles and a multi-media artistic presentation which draw attention to reconfigurations of the border catalyzed by the new security and surveillance regimes which have coalesced in the years following 9/11. The contributors explore a variety of theoretical and substantive issues including the historic origins of surveillance practices now associated with border regulation, the border’s increasing dispersal into differentiated spatial and temporal zones, the emergence of new surveillance paradigms, the simulacral and performative aspects of border security, and the differential effects of border management and risk assessment for various categories of persons.