The Border Bureau

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" The Border Bureau "
Mkhwanazi, Terrence Mxolisi Vally, Sumayya

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1054710
Doc. No	:	TL53827
Main Entry	:	Mkhwanazi, Terrence Mxolisi
Title & Author	:	The Border Bureau\ Mkhwanazi, Terrence MxolisiVally, Sumayya
College	:	University of Johannesburg (South Africa)
Date	:	2019
Degree	:	M.Tech.
student score	:	2019
Note	:	123 p.
Abstract	:	The focus of my Major Design Project lies in understanding contradictions and complexities in systems of border control to produce new, subversive readings and configurations of border forms. For systems of power and control to be deployed, they rely on institutional frameworks and protocols of standardisation which are projected onto ungoverned or otherwise-governed elements. Control cannot exist without the definition and quantification of what it seeks to regulate. Border architectures are shaped by these systems, regulations and analyses. There are disputes in how the Moroccan government and the Algerian Polisario Front demarcate the border between Morocco and Algeria. These disputes result in contested 'slivers' which are claimed by both sides. This project is situated in and amongst these 'sliver zones', through which I explore the concept of the border as 'an in-between space'. Not least to note, the Algeria-Morocco border has been in a state of closure since 1994 due to the politics between the nations, with no land-crossing legitimised between the nations, and the borderlands heavily surveyed by law and order officials. This costs the Algerian and Moroccan economies in excess of
Descriptor	:	Architecture
	:	Design
	:	North African studies
Added Entry	:	Vally, Sumayya
Added Entry	:	University of Johannesburg (South Africa)