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Research across several disciplines has focused on the intersection between the international and the urban to shed light on transformations in global politics. Recently, this intersection has become the focus of critical International Relations scholars. Despite transversal interest, disciplinary boundaries often limit the scope of academic debate. In the interest of developing a transdisciplinary research agenda, this review article charts three different ways that scholars have theorised the relationship between the international, the urban, and the political across disciplines. A review of five recently published books, situated within a broader study of the literature, serves to do this.

Reseñas de: - Biswas, Shampa y NAIR, Sheila (eds.), International Relations and States of Exception: Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies, Routledge, Oxon, 2010 - De Genova, Nicholas y Peutz, Nathalie (eds.), The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space and the Freedom of Movement, Duke University Press, Durham, 2010 - Nyers, Peter y Rygiel, Kim (eds.), Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement, Routledge, Londres, 2012 - Squire, Vicki (ed.), The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity, Routledge, Londres, 2011 - Vaughan-Williams, Nick, Border politics: the limits of sovereign power, Edinburgh University Press, Edimburgo, 2009

This review-essay analyses an emerging interdisciplinary literature that studies contemporary bordering practices. This historical period is marked by the end of the Cold War, Globalisation, Postcoloniality and the War on Terror. To give a name to this literature I adopt the term Critical Border Studies forwarded by Noel Parker and Nick Vaughan-Williams. In the texts reviewed one is able to identify three novel borderscapes; internal, differential and offshore borders. Review-essay of: BISWAS, Shampa y NAIR, Sheila (eds.), International Relations and States of Exception: Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies, Routledge, Oxon, 2010. DE GENOVA, Nicholas y PEUTZ, Nathalie (eds.), The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space and the Freedom of Movement, Duke University Press, Durham, 2010. NYERS, Peter y RYGIEL, Kim (eds.), Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement, Routledge, Londres, 2012. SQUIRE, Vicki (ed.), The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity, Routledge, Londres, 2011. VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS, Nick, Border politics: the limits of sovereign power, Edinburgh University Press, Edimburgo, 2009. ; En este review-essay se reseñará una bibliografía interdisciplinar emergente que analiza la práctica de las fronteras en la actualidad. Este período histórico está marcado por el fin de la Guerra Fría, la globalización, la postcolonialidad y la Guerra Contra el Terrorismo. Para dar nombre a este trabajo académico adoptaremos una denominación introducida por Noel Parker y Nick Vaughan-Williams: "los Estudios Críticos de Fronteras" (ECF). En los textos revisados se pueden identificar tres nuevos paisajes fronterizos: fronteras internas, fronteras discriminatorias y fronteras externas. Review-essay de: BISWAS, Shampa y NAIR, Sheila (eds.), International Relations and States of Exception: Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies, Routledge, Oxon, 2010. DE GENOVA, Nicholas y PEUTZ, Nathalie (eds.), The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space and the Freedom of Movement, Duke University Press, Durham, 2010. NYERS, Peter y RYGIEL, Kim (eds.), Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement, Routledge, Londres, 2012. SQUIRE, Vicki (ed.), The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity, Routledge, Londres, 2011. VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS, Nick, Border politics: the limits of sovereign power, Edinburgh University Press, Edimburgo, 2009.

En las últimas décadas las ciencias sociales se han visto deconstruidas por diferentes corrientes de pensamiento crítico que buscan analizar el sistema mundo actual, la política global y las relaciones sociales desde paradigmas y epistemologías otras que sirvan para interpretar las diferentes temporalidades y localidades del poder y del conocimiento. Una de las corrientes más novedosas es el llamado pensamiento decolonial. Esta propuesta surge dentro del debate crítico en las ciencias sociales, originalmente en las áreas de Sociología, Historia y Economía Política, y más recientemente en la disciplina de las Relaciones Internacionales. El pensamiento decolonial se plantea como crítico de las ya establecidas teorías poscoloniales. Es impulsado desde América Latina por el proyecto conocido como modernidad/colonialidad/decolonialidad, que nos invita a cuestionar la modernidad europea desde la reflexión de su antítesis, la colonialidad en América, y los efectos que la colonialidad del poder, del saber, y del ser, han tenido sobre el sujeto colonial global. En este artículo proponemos evaluar los aportes que el pensamiento decolonial puede hacer a la teoría de las Relaciones Internacionales y cómo, junto con otras conceptualizaciones hechas desde la teoría crítica, se podría contribuir al diálogo pluriversal que sus autores proponen. ; In recent decades the social sciences have been deconstructed by different strands of critical thought that strive to analyze the contemporary world system, global politics and social relations from alternative paradigms and epistemologies allowing us to understand the different temporalities and locations of power and knowledge. One of the most recent movements is what has been called Decolonial thinking. This proposal originates within critical debate in the social sciences, originally in Sociology, History and Political Economy and more recently in International Relations. Decolonial thinking takes a critical approach to established postcolonial studies. Driven by Latin American scholars forming part of the modernity/coloniality/decoloniality project, Decolonial thinking invites us to question European modernity considering its antithesis, colonialism in America, and the effects of Coloniality of power, knowledge and being, on the global colonial subject. In this article we evaluate the contributions Decolonial thinking may offer to International Relations theory, and at the same time, how it may add to other critical theories in order to contribute to the pluriversal dialogue that these authors propose

En las últimas décadas las ciencias sociales se han visto deconstruidas por diferentes corrientes de pensamiento crítico que buscan analizar el sistema mundo actual, la política global y las relaciones sociales desde paradigmas y epistemologías otras que sirvan para interpretar las diferentes temporalidades y localidades del poder y del conocimiento. Una de las corrientes más novedosas es el llamado pensamiento decolonial. Esta propuesta surge dentro del debate crítico en las ciencias sociales, originalmente en las áreas de Sociología, Historia y Economía Política, y más recientemente en la disciplina de las Relaciones Internacionales. El pensamiento decolonial se plantea como crítico de las ya establecidas teorías poscoloniales. Es impulsado desde América Latina por el proyecto conocido como modernidad/colonialidad/decolonialidad, que nos invita a cuestionar la modernidad europea desde la reflexión de su antítesis, la colonialidad en América, y los efectos que la colonialidad del poder, del saber, y del ser, han tenido sobre el sujeto colonial global. En este artículo proponemos evaluar los aportes que el pensamiento decolonial puede hacer a la teoría de las Relaciones Internacionales y cómo, junto con otras conceptualizaciones hechas desde la teoría crítica, se podría contribuir al diálogo pluriversal que sus autores proponen.

In recent decades the social sciences have been deconstructed by different strands of critical thought that strive to analyze the contemporary world system, global politics and social relations from alternative paradigms and epistemologies allowing us to understand the different temporalities and locations of power and knowledge. One of the most recent movements is what has been called Decolonial thinking. This proposal originates within critical debate in the social sciences, originally in Sociology, History and Political Economy and more recently in International Relations. Decolonial thinking takes a critical approach to established postcolonial studies. Driven by Latin American scholars forming part of the modernity/coloniality/decoloniality project, Decolonial thinking invites us to question European modernity considering its antithesis, colonialism in America, and the effects of Coloniality of power, knowledge and being, on the global colonial subject. In this article we evaluate the contributions Decolonial thinking may offer to International Relations theory, and at the same time, how it may add to other critical theories in order to contribute to the pluriversal dialogue that these authors propose. ; En las últimas décadas las ciencias sociales se han visto deconstruidas por diferentes corrientes de pensamiento crítico que buscan analizar el sistema mundo actual, la política global y las relaciones sociales desde paradigmas y epistemologías otras que sirvan para interpretar las diferentes temporalidades y localidades del poder y del conocimiento. Una de las corrientes más novedosas es el llamado pensamiento decolonial. Esta propuesta surge dentro del debate crítico en las ciencias sociales, originalmente en las áreas de Sociología, Historia y Economía Política, y más recientemente en la disciplina de las Relaciones Internacionales. El pensamiento decolonial se plantea como crítico de las ya establecidas teorías poscoloniales. Es impulsado desde América Latina por el proyecto conocido como modernidad/colonialidad/decolonialidad, que nos invita a cuestionar la modernidad europea desde la reflexión de su antítesis, la colonialidad en América, y los efectos que la colonialidad del poder, del saber, y del ser, han tenido sobre el sujeto colonial global. En este artículo proponemos evaluar los aportes que el pensamiento decolonial puede hacer a la teoría de las Relaciones Internacionales y cómo, junto con otras conceptualizaciones hechas desde la teoría crítica, se podría contribuir al diálogo pluriversal que sus autores proponen.

Red-zoning emerged as a key security practice in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic, with colour-coded security zones defining the spatial dimensions of diverse restrictions. However, red-zoning, understood as the cartographic practice of ascribing the colour red to a geographically defined area, has a long history. Prior to the pandemic, red zones were already being established and delimited in diverse locations around the globe. The spatial form of the red zone has recently been taken as paradigmatic of specific conceptions of security and insecurity in the present. However, as we demonstrate in this article, red zones operate in diverse ways across a wide array of fields including policing, military intervention and hazard and disaster risk analysis. This article seeks to make sense of the contemporary use of red zones and analyse the logics of security and politics underpinning them, without reducing the rationality of red zones to a singular overarching narrative or wallowing in their irreconcilable complexity. Rather than encountering the logics of red-zoning fully formed, we suggest that it is more fruitful to track their formulation through transversal connections and contested situations. We provide a conceptual framework for doing so through the notion of the prototype. In contrast to accounts that take spatial forms as paradigms of the security logics of the present, the prototype allows us to explore how ideas and practices develop through dispersed and contested interventions.

This article offers a new perspective on the failed states agenda, and the reconfiguration of colonial discourse buttressing it, by theorising its afterlives. The concept of afterlives has mostly been discussed as a metaphor or in passing in the IR literature. Drawing from the post- and decolonial literature, we propose to define the concept simultaneously as echoes and aftermaths of the past. This conceptualisation of afterlives aims to contribute to the study of the persistence of colonial forms beyond notions of continuity and rupture. We develop the concept of afterlives through a discussion of the failed states agenda and its iterations. We discuss four specific iterations of the agenda: the genesis of the agenda in the decolonisation period; the consolidation of the agenda during the early 1990s; the crisis of the agenda and the rise of the resilience discussion; and finally the rise of the fragile city agenda as one of the afterlives of the failed states agenda. To illustrate our argument, we discuss two specific 'fragments' through which we can effectively grasp the echoes and aftermaths of coloniality: the pathologisation of fragile states and cities, operated through various twin figures (civilised/barbaric; strong/dysfunctional; resilient/vulnerable) and their practical repercussions; and the visualisation, mapping and colour-coding of fragile states and cities, exemplifying the durability and contradictions of the failed states agenda.

This article offers a new perspective on the failed states agenda, and the reconfiguration of colonial discourse buttressing it, by theorising its afterlives. The concept of afterlives has mostly been discussed as a metaphor or in passing in the IR literature. Drawing from the post- and decolonial literature, we propose to define the concept simultaneously as echoes and aftermaths of the past. This conceptualisation of afterlives aims to contribute to the study of the persistence of colonial forms beyond notions of continuity and rupture. We develop the concept of afterlives through a discussion of the failed states agenda and its iterations. We discuss four specific iterations of the agenda: the genesis of the agenda in the decolonisation period; the consolidation of the agenda during the early 1990s; the crisis of the agenda and the rise of the resilience discussion; and finally the rise of the fragile city agenda as one of the afterlives of the failed states agenda. To illustrate our argument, we discuss two specific 'fragments' through which we can effectively grasp the echoes and aftermaths of coloniality: the pathologisation of fragile states and cities, operated through various twin figures (civilised/barbaric; strong/dysfunctional; resilient/vulnerable) and their practical repercussions; and the visualisation, mapping and colour-coding of fragile states and cities, exemplifying the durability and contradictions of the failed states agenda.

Cet article se propose d'analyser les modes de persistance de la soi-disant « explosion sociale » qui s'est produit au Chili entre octobre 2019 et mars 2020, en considérant deux phénomènes : d'une part, l'opération systématique d'effacement des traces de la révolte populaire de l'espace public ; et, d'autre part, le récent rejet de la proposition de nouvelle Constitution. Ce travail traite des débris et des spectres de la révolte, pour lesquels est proposée une nécro-archive de l' « explosion sociale », où sont assemblés les différents rythmes du processus, dans l'intention de repenser les diverses réverbérations des événements.