Borderlands

* Contents * Introduction: The Migrant, the Border and the World * Blocked at the border * Indifference and solidarities * Borders and walls * Borderlands and their inhabitants: a banal cosmopolitism * Part I: Decentring the World * Chapter 1. The Elementary Forms of the Border * The border as centre of reflection * Temporal, social and spatial dimensions of the border ritual * Community and locality: the border as social fact * The sacred space in Salvador de Bahia * The symbolic construction of the border * An anthropology of/in the border * Founding, naming, limiting * Borderlands as uncertain places: Tocqueville at Saginaw * Interval time: carnivals and deceleration * Everything that the border is the place of * Borders and identity * Border situations and liminality * Chapter 2. The World as 'Problem' * War at the borders * Is the world a problem? Cosmopolitical reality and realpolitik * Economic globalization and the weakening of nation-states * Landscapes, routes and networks: the shape of the world * Violence at the border: the outside of the nation * The 'border police', or what remains of nation-states * The fiction of 'national indigeneity' and its naturalization * Expulsions trace the boundary of national identity * Humanitarian spaces as partial delocalization of sovereignty * Walls of war * Colonial war, war on migrants * Questions about the 'desire for walls' * Chapter 3. Border Dwellers and Borderlands: Studies of banal cosmopolitism * The border dwellers: figures and places of relative foreignness * Wandering as adventure and the border encampment * Becoming a pariah and living in a camp * Four 'métèques', and the squat as border * The foreigner in his labyrinth, or the tiers-instruit * Being-in-the-world on the border: a new cosmopolitan condition * An ordinary cosmopolitism * Part Two: The Decentred Subject * Chapter 4. Questions of Method: Decentring Reconsidered Today * A critical moment: the contemporary turn in anthropology * The end of the 'Great Divide' * From ethnic group to ethnic identities * Identity-based essentialisms and ontologies * Decentring reconceived * Beyond cultural decentring * The construction of epistemological decentring * Political decentring. The question of the other-as-subject * A contemporary and situational anthropology * WYSIWYG: what you see is what there is * The contribution of situational anthropology * Chapter 5. Civilization, Culture, Race: Three Explorations in Identity * Civilization as hyper-border: mirrors of Africa * The 1950s: 'One civilization accused by another!' * 1980s and 1990s: deconstructions, reinventions * A global and diffuse African presence * The migration of spirits: mobilities and identity-based cultures * The devil, the priest and black culture (Colombian Pacific) * The Tunda as urban monster (Charco Azul, Cali) * Borders and temporalities of identity-based cultures * Race and racism: how can one be black? * Republic and racial thought in France * Brazil: from 'racial democracy' to 'multicultural nation' * Citizenship without identity * Escaping the identity trap * Chapter 6. Logics and Politics of the Subject * An anthropology of the subject * From person to individual: ethnology and sociology * From subjectification to subjects: anthropology and philosophy * The subject in situation: an ethnographic proposal * The decentred subject: three situational analyses * The ritual subject, or the subject as duplication of self and world * The aesthetic subject, or the care of self and the subject as author * The political subject, or the subject as a demand for citizenship * Moments and politics of the other-subject * Conclusion: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition * Notes * Index