Challenging the Border Doxa: Selected Examples of Border Artivism
Challenging the Border Doxa: Selected Examples of Border Artivism

Summary/Abstract: Referring to D. Robert DeChaine’s argument in Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Border in which the author puts forward the need to analyze rhetorical functions of the border, the article examines the examples of challenging of the border doxa. Thereby the article discusses selected examples of border artivism taking place at the U.S.-Mexico border and the Mediterranean since the 2000s. The rhetorical meaning of the border related to values, beliefs and attitudes is understood as a border doxa that influences the social perception of borders and migrants. The works of the artists discussed in the article challenge border related narratives and question the legitimacy of borders, due to the detrimental effects they have, creating divisions between people, communities and the environment.

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