The Enclave Society: Towards a Sociology of Immobility Export

@article{citeulike:2051065, abstract = {In contemporary sociology, there has been significant interest in the idea of mobility, the decline of the nation state, the rise of flexible citizenship, and the porous quality of political boundaries. There is much talk of medicine without borders and sociology without borders. These social developments are obviously linked to the processes of globalization, leading some to argue that we need a `sociology beyond society' in order to account for these flows and global networks. In this article, I propose an alternative analysis. There are important developments involving the securitization of modern societies that create significant forms of immobility. One striking illustration is the increasing use of walls to quarantine or secure territories and communities against outsiders or to regulate the flow of migrants in Israel, in Europe and along the Mexican-US border. Modern societies are in particular characterized by a deep contradiction between the economic need for labour mobility and the state's political need to assert sovereignty. Gated societies, ghettoes, quarantine zones, prisons, camps and similar arrangements are in many respects pre-modern institutions of spatial regulation for political ends. Contemporary technical developments in biomedicine offer new opportunities for political control and spatial regulation in terms of forensic policing, bio-tattooing and bioprofiling. Globalization paradoxically produces significant forms of immobility for political regulation of persons alongside the mobility of goods and services. 10.1177/1368431007077807}, author = {Turner, Bryan S.}, citeulike-article-id = {2051065}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431007077807}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://est.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/2/287}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/1368431007077807}, journal = {European Journal of Social Theory}, keywords = {borders, capitalism, economics, enterprise, fear, globalization, immigration, immobility, industry, labor, migrations, military, mobility, national-borders, nationalism, politics, protectionism, restrictions, society, socioeconomics, sociology, sovereignty, state, terrorism, war}, month = {May}, number = {2}, pages = {287--304}, posted-at = {2007-12-03 17:09:32}, priority = {5}, title = {The Enclave Society: Towards a Sociology of Immobility}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431007077807}, volume = {10}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2051065 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2051065 N2 - In contemporary sociology, there has been significant interest in the idea of mobility, the decline of the nation state, the rise of flexible citizenship, and the porous quality of political boundaries. There is much talk of medicine without borders and sociology without borders. These social developments are obviously linked to the processes of globalization, leading some to argue that we need a `sociology beyond society' in order to account for these flows and global networks. In this article, I propose an alternative analysis. There are important developments involving the securitization of modern societies that create significant forms of immobility. One striking illustration is the increasing use of walls to quarantine or secure territories and communities against outsiders or to regulate the flow of migrants in Israel, in Europe and along the Mexican-US border. Modern societies are in particular characterized by a deep contradiction between the economic need for labour mobility and the state's political need to assert sovereignty. Gated societies, ghettoes, quarantine zones, prisons, camps and similar arrangements are in many respects pre-modern institutions of spatial regulation for political ends. Contemporary technical developments in biomedicine offer new opportunities for political control and spatial regulation in terms of forensic policing, bio-tattooing and bioprofiling. Globalization paradoxically produces significant forms of immobility for political regulation of persons alongside the mobility of goods and services. 10.1177/1368431007077807 IS - 2 JF - European Journal of Social Theory EP - 304 TI - The Enclave Society: Towards a Sociology of Immobility VL - 10 SP - 287 KW - borders KW - capitalism KW - economics KW - enterprise KW - fear KW - globalization KW - immigration KW - immobility KW - industry KW - labor KW - migrations KW - military KW - mobility KW - national-borders KW - nationalism KW - politics KW - protectionism KW - restrictions KW - society KW - socioeconomics KW - sociology KW - sovereignty KW - state KW - terrorism KW - war AU - Turner, Bryan PY - 2007/05/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431007077807 ER -