GLOBL 126: GLOBAL BORDERS

University of California, Santa Barbara

Examines the social, cultural, political, and economic processes of borders and their global implications. Students will explore the relationships tha t link border regimes with colonialism, imperialism, racial capitalism, and other structural systems attendant to crises, moral panics, and nationalis m. The course also investigates how Indigenous notions of borderlands, poli tical calls for border abolition, and the emergence of cross-border cultura l and social movements provide alternatives to dominant ideas of border reg imes. Focusing on the US-Mexico border, students will understand the implic ations of borders for our world today in the midst of climate change, capit alist crises, mass migration, and rising far right nationalism.