Notes on the discourses around the Colombian-Ecuadorian border

Authors

  • Roque Espinosa Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar-Sede Ecuador

Keywords:

imaginaries, border, discourse, subjectivities, insecurity, fear

Abstract

This article analyses the on-going imaginaries about the Northern border which stem from the current discourses produced by the Ecuadorian legal, political and military establishments. Within the narratives constructed by these dis-courses, borders are seen as places in which disorder rules, as regions where democracy is not well established, and as areas which are prone to become war scenarios. Since the late 1980s, these imaginaries have been portraying borders as places of insecurity. According to the author, these discourses reproduce common-sense statements, which do not allow a full comprension of the situations and conditions lived by border societies.

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Author Biography

Roque Espinosa, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar-Sede Ecuador

Docente de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador; director del Proyecto de Investigación Efectos del conflicto colombiano en las provincias fronterizas de Esmeraldas, Carchi y Sucumbíos, UASB-BID, 2005-2006.

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How to Cite

Espinosa, R. (2016). Notes on the discourses around the Colombian-Ecuadorian border. Comentario Internacional. Journal of the Andean Center of International Studies, (6), 271–298. Retrieved from https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/comentario/article/view/164

Issue

No. 6 (2006): Luces y sombras de la negociación del TLC

Section

Other issues

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