Border Crossings Research Articles

Dangers and Opportunities in the Development of Borderlands: the Case of the Warmia and Mazury Region (Selected Issues)

The article deals with the issue of dangers and opportunities in the development of the Warmia and Mazury region in the context of being in the neighbourhood of the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation. The aim of the article is to present selected conditions of functioning of the Warmia and Mazury region as a border region neighbouring the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation, as well threats related to the military potential of the Kaliningrad region. The border location of the Warmia and Mazury region deepens its peripherality both from the point of view of economic development and its influence on the policy of the Polish central authorities. A significant barrier to the development of the region was the introduction of the visa regime on the Polish-Russian border before Poland’s accession to the European Union. Another factor in cross-border relations was the introduction of the local border traffic mechanism, which facilitated border crossings from 2012 to 2016. Since 2014, Polish-Russian relations have been deteriorating at the political level. This has made it necessary to treat the Kaliningrad region as a potential source of danger to Poland. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022, further aggravated this trend.

Verifying unfamiliar identities: Effects of processing name and face information in the same identity-matching task

Matching the identity of unfamiliar faces is important in applied identity verification tasks, for example when verifying photo ID at border crossings, in secure access areas, or when issuing identity credentials. In these settings, other biographical details—such as name or date of birth on an identity document—are also often compared to existing records, but the impact of these concurrent checks on decisions has not been examined. Here, we asked participants to sequentially compare name, then face information between an ID card and digital records to detect errors. Across four experiments (combined n = 274), despite being told that mismatches between written name pairs and face image pairs were independent, participants were more likely to say that face images matched when names also matched. Across all experiments, we found that this bias was unaffected by the image quality, suggesting that the source of the bias is somewhat independent of perceptual processes. In a final experiment, we show that this decisional bias was found only for name checks, but not when participants were asked to check ID card expiration dates or unrelated object names. We conclude that the bias arises from processing identity information and propose that it operates at the level of unfamiliar person identity representations. Results are interpreted in the context of theoretical models of face processing, and we discuss applied implications.

Using Technology to Address Cross Border Crime and Illegal Migration: The Case of South Africa

The 1996 Constitution of South Africa includes the right of every South African to freedom and security. It is the government’s responsibility to guarantee that national security is maintained and that residents within the limits of South African borders are protected. Based on this assumption, the issue of border management and migration regulations is presumed to be critical. Poor border management and unregulated migration jeopardise national security and endanger residents’ freedom and security. This article contends that South Africa’s inadequate border control and unrestrained migration have jeopardised the country’s national security. As a result of the inadequacy of border control in South Africa, South Africans have resorted to various xenophobic actions, with many foreign nationals losing their lives in the process. This article examines the current policy responses to migration and security at border crossings and what has gone wrong in South African border management. A qualitative research technique was used to fulfil the goals of this paper.

Border-crossings as memory sites? The case study of the Czech-Polish border in Cieszyn Silesia

This project evaluates the state borders between Czechia and Poland in the region of Cieszyn Silesia from the perspective of memory studies. Emphasizing the fact that the borders and especially border crossings are sites rich in symbolics, a field observation was conducted to explore whether the border-crossings (can) play a role in memory work. These sites, apart from their apparent function, represent bridges between two states and are usually two national communities. If these groups were in antagonistic relationships in the past (tensions, violence), the border could also become a site of rivalry (e.g., contested border demarcations). In this project, all the border-crossings between Czechia and Poland in Cieszyn Silesia are considered, and the imprints of the past are identified. According to the approach of the SANE framework (Björkdahl et al., 2017), some of these border crossings can be also considered memory sites which means they are (can become) a platform for reconciliation or construction of new and better cross-border relationships. That goal is also valid for Cieszyn Silesia which was divided into two parts after the First World War (Czechoslovak and Polish). Such demarcation did not respect the national and linguistic distribution of populations and left many Poles in Czechoslovakia. The demarcation of the new border was accompanied by events that turned sensitive from a longer perspective (Czechoslovak military campaign in 1919 on Polish territory, Polish occupation of Cieszyn Silesia in 1938). This paper, therefore, explores the reconciling and conflicting narratives the memory sites may have.

Intimate bordering: Intimacy, anti-blackness and gender violence in the making of the Dominican border

This article proposes the term Intimate Bordering to explain the role of intimacy and social reproduction in the active process of border-making and statecraft. The concept contributes to understanding daily experiences of bordering among subaltern subjects who make and contest the border every day and yet are often unaccounted for. The concept sheds light on how racialized and gendered relations of power intrinsic to antiblackness and cis-hetero-patriarchy interweave and condition spatial politics and belonging. These arguments are developed by bridging border studies and black and feminist geographies, and by centering the experiences of Haitian women who work as domestic workers in Dominican border towns. The article is based on fieldwork carried out in four Dominican and Haitian border towns, including interviews, focus groups and participant observation focused on the everyday commutes of Haitian domestic workers who live in Haiti and work in the Dominican Republic (DR). It analyzes two sets of intimate border practices that take place at two official border crossings: the first set includes normalized forms of intimate violence and humiliation at the border; the second examines the failed attempt at institutionalizing the transborder mobilities of domestic workers based on colonial entitlements of control over the bodies of black Haitian women. Centering intimacy in bordering brings transnational livelihoods, social reproduction and racialization into the heart of the analysis of statecraft projects in the space of the Afro-Caribbean.

Unpacking “signs of learning” in complex sociopolitical environments

ABSTRACT This special issue offers empirically rich accounts of research that make the ingenuities and brilliance of BIPOC learners visible “replacing entrenched assumptions about where we see ingenuity and how we recognize it.” The articles in this issue embrace the strengths and creativity of BIPOC learners by deliberately shifting away from deficit-based thinking. These accounts of learning focus on new ways of seeing, uplifting, and leveraging learners’ cultural, historical, and identity backgrounds. The articles essentially document learning of “border crossers” who as fugitives have “to learn to negotiate the power, violence, cruelty of the dominant culture”. They also imply accounts that go beyond the recounting of their “lived histories, restricted languages, and narrow cultural experiences” by critically unpacking and engaging with the imagery and discourses of dominant culture.

Nach der Literatur: Studien zu einer Theorie der Literatur by Giulia Agostini

Reviewed by: Nach der Literatur: Studien zu einer Theorie der Literatur by Giulia Agostini Ian Ellison Nach der Literatur: Studien zu einer Theorie der Literatur. By Giulia Agostini. (Neues Forum für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, 57) Heidelberg: Winter. 2021. 275 pp. €38. ISBN 978–3–8253–4681–2. At least in the context of modern German culture, literature and philosophy were long considered inseparable. This is perhaps best encapsulated in the phrase ‘Volk der Dichter und Denker’ (‘people of poets and thinkers’) regularly in use since the mid-eighteenth century to describe the German philological tradition. Over the centuries, this was often reconceptualized in an ongoing attempt to grasp how literary writers confront questions of human understanding and knowledge through philosophical discourse. Until the early 1900s, the phrase was increasingly used to commemorate the intellectual greats of the Enlightenment, Classicism, and Romanticism. As the horrors of twentieth-century conflict and persecutions unfolded, it became distorted and parodied—perhaps most notably by Karl Kraus in Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (1915–22) as a ‘Volk der Richter und Henker’ (‘people of judges and executioners’)—before becoming threatened with obsolescence. The certainty of literature’s potential to offer a means of understanding oneself and the world was no longer a given. In a high-wire act of intellectual comparison, Giulia Agostini’s Nach der Literatur considers afresh these philosophical stakes, less in a historicized mode than in a form of metaphysical counterplay. Over the course of six densely written chapters, she seeks to test out ‘Die Grenzgänge zwischen Literatur und Philosophie’ (‘the border crossings between literature and philosophy’, p. 15), pursuing the thorny question of what literary works mean for us today, at a time when, she claims, literature seems to be disappearing as much as it proliferates. Hence her study’s curious focus on literary theory after literature (‘nach der Literatur’), which is to say, its attempt to unlock new—if oblique—prospects on what literature itself does not know but strives to understand (‘einen Ausblick auf das zu eröffnen, was die Literatur selbst nicht weiß, was sie jedoch zu verstehen strebt’, p. 16). This is not so much after literature as beyond its gaze. Moving from Stéphane Mallarmé’s poetics of the absolute to the quasi-mystical dimensions of Maurice Blanchot’s and George Bataille’s readings of Marcel Proust, Agostini elaborates a literary metaphysics that traces the impersonality of language and literature (‘Unpersönlichkeit von Sprache und Literatur’, p. 101). A reading of recurring images of growing plants in Proust’s work as metaphors of literature’s inner workings leads Agostini to the abstract flow structures of Najia Mehadji’s visual artworks. Later chapters consider indifference in the philosophical and poetic work of María Zambrano alongside the artwork of Auguste Rodin, Eva Hesse, and Francisco de Zurbarán, as well as the sensual ultra-philosophy of Giacomo Leopardi’s lyrical poetry in relation to the stark black-and-white photography of Mario Giacomelli, and, last but not least, the distinctions between Samuel Beck-ett’s experimental theatre that plumbs the depths of literature and Julio Cortázar’s eschewing temporal realities through the figuration of the Möbius Strip. Agostini demonstrates a remarkable command of numerous languages and philosophical [End Page 692] discourses, though the threat that the ungraspable in literature may tip at any moment into theoretical inscrutability is never entirely absent from her prose. A tendency to overemphasize through italicization may also confuse as much as enlighten. Nonetheless, for those willing to venture down the rabbit hole, there is much to admire in this erudite attempt to construe the forms and implications of various literary and artistic portrayals of a gaze that desires understanding. Beautifully presented by the Winter publishing house, this is a richly researched study that brings together a chorus of twentieth-century European cultural figures accompanied by plentiful illustrations. After all, as the quotation in Agostini’s dedication from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland reads, ‘what is the use of a book [. . .] without pictures or conversations?’ Ian Ellison University of Kent Copyright © 2022 The Modern Humanities Research Association

Home in border crossings: A psychoanalytic study of dislocations in the lives of female domestic workers.

Home in border crossings: A psychoanalytic study of dislocations in the lives of female domestic workers.

Имитационное моделирование развития Ванино-Совгаванского мультимодального транспортного узла

Purpose: Working-out of simulation model of multimodal transport node functioning to solve the problem of regional transport infrastructure development. Determination of the optimal ratio of technical and technological parameters of railway and sea port infrastructure, namely: technical parameters of MTN (Multimodal Transport Node) objects which determine their capacity in view of reliability of their functioning; processing time of applications (on cars, trains, ships, etc.) at each MTN object. Methods: Methodology for structural systems analysis, system theory, agent-based, discrete-event and system-dynamic modeling were applied. Results: Theoretical foundations for modeling methods are considered and the application of simulation modeling to solve the task of effective functioning of large transport systems in the conditions of uncertainty is substantiated. The simulation model of Vanino-Sovgavan multimodal transport node development was carried out to justify design decisions on change of MTN railway infrastructure oblique and capacity. The values of parameters at which the system can function smoothly in conditions of car traffic rise have been determined. Practical importance: The developed simulation model makes it possible to analyze the work of the key transport node of the Far East with the purpose of its effective and sustainable functioning. In addition, the model can be used to rationalize the work of existing transport nodes and to solve the issue of advanced development of a regional transport infrastructure, primarily, the Trans-Siberian and Baikal-Amur Mainlines, the Northern Sea Route, sea ports, border crossings and approaches to them in order to ensure production improvement for mining, processing and transportation of natural resources and realization of transit potential of Siberia, the Far East and the Arctic zone of Russia.

Literary representations of borders and partitions in provincial memory cultures (Northern Ireland and Upper Silesia)

AbstractNorthern Ireland and Upper Silesia exhibit numerous analogies when it comes to their local communities' experience of borders, divisions and partitions. The experience is reflected in recent partition narratives which prove that geopolitical and administrative interventions in space and territory are likely to create and define more than just lines on the maps and new jurisdictions. Borders and partitions are felt and endured, often imprinted on provincial memories, both individual and communal. Border crossings, borders in the mind and actual experiences connected with being partitioned and living in a borderland have determined, for the last 100 years, the parameters of what I call provincial memory in Northern Ireland and Upper Silesia, making them markedly different from national memory cultures in Ireland/Britain and Poland, respectively. The transcultural memory of partitions and borders, preserved in contemporary literary accounts of the past, informs the main thrust of the narratives of belonging in both regions. By exploring related examples of partition narratives and attitudes of regional writers to borderlands and partitions, this essay argues for a recognition, in the respective contexts of Northern Ireland and Upper Silesia, of significant differences between the discursive performances of provincial memory cultures and national ones.

Bounded Exit and Voice in North Korea

AbstractThe Hirschman‐inspired literature on exit and voice often assume that citizens of a highly restrictive, autocratic regime exercise few options to exit the country (‘border crossing’) or to voice their discontent. This assumption neglects a sustained economic crisis, which exposes the limitations of traditional, state‐run organizations and increases public demand for border crossings. To survive such a crisis, we theorize that more‐authoritarian (autocratic) regimes encourage bounded exit (crossing) options that tie citizens legally and financially to the incumbent country; and that bounded exit options enhance citizen voices in the autocratic regime and help alter incumbent rules. We formulate our theory both deductively and inductively: deductively from the literatures on exit and voice, crises (critical junctures), historical institutionalism, and communist autocracies; and inductively from published data related to North Korea. We develop and assess propositions with secondary analysis of governmental statistics and the literature on North Korea's famine (1994–98), border crossings and marketization. Data limitations notwithstanding, this paper outlines a theoretically novel pathway linking crisis, exit, voice, rules changes and autocratic regimes.

“Slaughterhouse cattle are treated better than this”: exploring the salience of everyday nationhood at British airports

ABSTRACT Questions remain about nationhood’s everyday salience – that is, whether and how nationhood is engaged with by “ordinary people” undertaking routine activities. We present an innovative methodology for investigating everyday nationhood at the international border. We created a social media dataset of 1,083 “tweets” made during British airport border crossings, where nationhood might be expected to be particularly salient – especially during a period corresponding to post-referendum Brexit negotiations. We used content analysis to generate descriptive frequencies, before analysing these broad patterns in further detail via qualitative analysis. Nationhood is found to be largely absent, at least explicitly. A large majority focus on the contingencies of everyday life in highly individualist and consumer-oriented ways. The most common identification – “non-EU” – indicates border-crossing experiences framed by geopolitical inequalities, but only rarely by nationhood. One possible exception to the dominant patterns is a highly individualist, tacit manifestation of Britishness.

Border securocracy: Global expansion of the U.S. Department of homeland security bureaucratic apparatus before, during and beyond covid-19

The U.S. border security apparatus is moving around the globe as climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and corporatization create political and economic chaos. Global north governments seek to keep out migrants and refugees from the global south while corporations in the global north want protection to maintain their wealth. U.S. government bureaucratic agencies such as Custom and Border Protection’s Border Patrol Tactical Unit are sent abroad to expand U.S. influence in an empire of borders to train receptive government security and border forces and to regulate, detain and prevent migrants and refugees well beyond the U.S. border. Governments are waging war against the people, creating a “securocracy” comprised of profit seeking military arms corporations and allied government agents to quell resistance and border crossers. Examined are the effects and impacts of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on global border securocracy beginning with an analysis of the Mexico-U.S. border, moving to international borders in Latin America and beyond. The theoretical concept of border securocracy is expanded from the securocracy literature in the context of the north versus south globalization conflict.

Border Crossings by Manuel [Álvaro Cunhal] Tiago

Reviewed by: Border Crossings by Manuel [Álvaro Cunhal] Tiago Debora Zamorano Tiago, Manuel [Álvaro Cunhal]. Border Crossings. International Publishers, 2021. Pp. 115. ISBN 9780717808731. Border Crossings is a captivating collection of fictional stories about illegal border crossings by members of the Portuguese Communist Party in the 1930s and 40s. The characters in these stories crossed European borders fleeing from a dictatorship. These escapes encompass political exiles, self-exiles, underground communists, political beliefs, and seeking a better life. The author’s name, Manuel Tiago, was a pseudonym used by Álvaro Cunhal, the historical leader of the Portuguese Communist Party from 1961 to 1992. Cunhal spent nearly 35 years underground or in prison for his role in building the Communists into the only well-organized opposition to the dictatorship of Antonio Salazar and then Marcelo Caetano. Ultimately, this would lead to a coup in 1974. On top of being the leader of the Portuguese Communist Party, Manuel Tiago was a writer and a plastic artist. He understood the role of art as serving a political goal. Therefore, his writings and art were mostly done in secret to not arise commotion toward his political agenda. Despite being fictional, these stories certainly reflect authentic struggles of idealist people risking their lives for their values. The descriptions are genuine, and they transport the reader into the characters’ minds, allowing us to feel their fears, difficulties, and moments of relief and happiness after their fortunate crossings. One of the highlights of the book is its description of human characteristics such as cooperation, helpfulness, unity, and care. The narratives allow the reader to feel warm-hearted about the number of people who volunteer to help the characters crossing the borders in their endeavors. Furthermore, Manuel Tiago enriches the stories by providing the reader with knowledge of different places, landscapes, oceans, political tourism as Eric Gordon, who has translated this book, points out in the foreword (ix). Manuel Tiago also gives specific and detailed information on one of the characters’ passports in the “When You Least Expect It” story. The passport had two stamps in different colors, with the same date and the same border, mistakenly superimposed as the author mentioned. In the story, an expert also fixed the mistake and explained what the character of the story had to do and how to proceed. Such information shows the reality of human mistakes even in carefully outlined plans. One of the strengths of the book is the use of language misunderstandings that often happen when people who speak different languages try to engage in conversations. For example, in the “Brazen Pursuit” story, Alberto, the main character asked a family on the train what region of France they were from after listening to their conversation. They responded that they were Swiss. The translation made by Eric Gordon stay true to the original work in this sense. It did not exclude all the human feelings expressed in the stories and is still able to captivate the readers, making them to want to see the narrow escapes of the characters in each story. Additionally, it gives an overview of the nuances of the stories. For example, it briefly describes the foreign cities of the stories, the discomforts of travel, and the unity between the characters and the people they encounter. The book ends with a chapter on questions to ponder and discuss. This chapter is particularly important to help the readers think of human decisions and actions in the stories and make sense of them. For example, the decision on risk assessment is mentioned as one of the most critical issues in underground work (113). The question is: what makes a person take voluntary risks, as Alfredo took when leading Barra out of Portugal in the “Lies to East” story. [End Page 482] The author also calls the readers’ attention to sexism in one of the stories. The handlers of the crossers were not pleased that they were women. This could be an allusion to Cunhal bringing consciousness to the gender issues he had witnessed. In fact, while in prison, Cunhal obtained his law degree, and his thesis was about abortion. While he saw abortions as tragedy, he argued that for...

Migrating through the Corridor of Death: The Making of a Complex Humanitarian Crisis

Drawing on the concept of a “complex humanitarian crisis,” this paper describes how outflows of migrants from Central America were transformed into such a crisis by intransigent immigration and border policies enacted in both Mexico and the United States. We describe the origins of the migration in U.S. Cold War interventions that created many thousands of displaced people fleeing violence and economic degradation in the region, leading to a sustained process of undocumented migration to the United States. Owing to rising levels of gang violence and weather events associated with climate change, the number of people seeking to escape threats in Central America has multiplied and unauthorized migration through Mexico toward the United States has increased. However, the securitization of migration in both Mexico and the United States has blocked these migrants from exercising their right to petition for asylum, creating a growing backlog of migrants who are subject to human rights violations and predations both by criminals and government authorities, leading migrants to label Mexican routes northward as a “corridor of death.” We draw on data from annual reports of Mexico's Red de Documentación de las Organizaciones Defensoras de Migrantes (Network for the Documentation of Migrant Defense Organizations) to construct a statistical profile of transit migrants and the threats they face as reported by humanitarian actors in Mexico. These reports allow us to better understand the practical realities of the “complex humanitarian crisis” facing undocumented migrants, both as unauthorized border crossers and as transit migrants moving between the southern frontiers of Mexico and the United States. Policy Recommendations Policy makers need to address: Governments must recognize that the humanitarian crisis facing migrants is not confined to border regions but unfolds at places of both origin and destination as well as within extended geographies of transit in-between. The current refugee protection regime and asylum system are ill-matched to the needs and vulnerabilities of today's migrants. In an era of rapid climate change, rising state failures, and escalating violence, people are not moving so much to advance economically as to escape a growing array of threats not covered by the 1951 Refugee Convention, which needs to be updated. Developed nations must honor rather than elide their obligations under international law to accept asylum applicants and fairly adjudicate their cases, Since a large fraction of the Central Americans arriving at the southern US border have relatives in the United States, creating a pathway to legal status for unauthorized US residents would relieve a lot of the pressure on the asylum system by enabling authorities to release applicants to the support and care of legally resident relatives rather than placing them in an overburdened detention system. Governments need to scale back the securitization and criminalization of migration, which have made human mobility an increasingly precarious and risk-filled activity that contributes to rather than forestalls the proliferation of crime and violence. Human rights and humanitarian agencies need to revisit their missions to derive new ways of working conjointly and in parallel with each other and with governments to better understand and meet the needs of migrants in the 21st century.

‘Around the hut’: an archaeological ethnography around the experimental construction of a shepherd’s hut in Konitsa, north-west Greece

SUMMARY This article reflects on the experimental building of a Vlach hut that took place in the 14th Summer School of the Balkan Border Crossings Network. The approach took the form of an archaeological ethnography and addressed a variety of subjects from ethnographic and experimental fieldworkto videography and critical heritage, all emerging from the same point: thebuilding of a shepherd’s roundhut in the plain of Konitsa. From interdisciplinary methodological encounters to reflections on pastoral identities, legislation and its effects on this built pastoral heritage, as well as fieldwork reflections, while experiencing and experimenting, this article reveals potential avenues for interdisciplinary engagement in contexts such as Summer Schools.

Joining the dots in an era of uncertainty – Reviewing Myanmar’s Illegal wildlife trade and looking to the future

Myanmar spans important bioregions and acts as both a source and a conduit for wildmeat and illegal wildlife trade across Asia. Interplays between internal demand for wildmeat and external demands for wildlife products from neighbouring China and Thailand shape the illegal wildlife market in Myanmar. While some information on trade, market locations, and key border crossings exists, this is frequently limited to target species and this information has not been synthesized. We review the available literature on the illegal wildlife trade in Myanmar. We find that a small number of wildlife markets along Myanmar’s Eastern border are well studied (24% of all studies focus on just 2 markets) but domestic trade and consumption is less well known and links between internal markets and border markets are unclear. For example, we found 31 market surveys carried out at three major markets on the Chinese and Thai border and 37 market surveys across the rest of the country combined. Interview surveys were more evenly distributed but still biased towards border regions. We recommend the establishment of a national wildlife crime database to improve data sharing, providing an integrated national-level perspective on the illegal wildlife trade within Myanmar and across its borders. While data sharing is crucial, without the capability and will to enforce legislation, the illegal wildlife trade in Myanmar represents a major threat to the biodiversity of the region the continued survival of several endangered species.

Border Development Model on the Human Development Aspects for Sustainable Community

The Indonesian government has implemented a border development policy. Still, it has not been able to answer the complexity of the problems that occur in border areas, especially in North Kalimantan. The development of border areas is closely related to the mission of national development, defence and state security to improve the Welfare of the people in the border areas, especially to ensure the integrity and sovereignty of the state. However, the condition of border communities in North Kalimantan is increasingly marginalized, where poverty and regional isolation trigger the high demands of local people to become border crossers to Malaysia. This study will examine the factors causing the economic backwardness of border communities in North Kalimantan, poverty and isolation of border communities, and security issues at the border. The results show that the border area needs to be closely monitored because it is a security-prone area. This makes the border development paradigm in Kaltara prioritize a security approach rather than Welfare. This causes the border areas in North Kalimantan to be scarcely touched by the dynamics of development. Therefore, border development needs to be placed in a people centre of development-oriented to people's economic development for sustainable communities through accelerating economic growth, improving the quality of human resources, and strengthening institutional capacity for border area development. Thus, border communities can enjoy prosperity by protecting and maintaining state sovereignty at the border.

Tackling food loss in Vietnam Logistics sector VIA technology

Food loss in Vietnam is a major concern for the government, commercial sector, and regulators, and many others. Food loss is exacerbated during epidemics, when the supply chain is disrupted, border crossings are blocked, aircraft are restricted, etc., necessitating the state and enterprises to develop policies and effective ways to address this problem. There are already numerous firms in Vietnam that have excellent solutions for dealing with food loss, and employing technology is one of the most effective ways for businesses to control food loss and drastically reduce the rate of food loss throughout the food supply chain. The article will analyze technology solutions used by Vietnamese enterprises to prevent food loss, as well as existing and potential technologies around the world that can help to lessen food loss.

Border crossers: Feminist decolonial geography and climate change

While more geographical studies around climate change incorporate gender in the climate debate, few of them explore the epistemological value of gendering climate knowledge, fewer, the potential of feminist decolonial climate knowledge. Using border thinking, this paper brings Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Decolonial Theory, and Feminist Political Ecology into conversation with human geography to stress how a Feminist Decolonial Geography is well suited to tackle climate change. This approach can trace the origin of dominant ideas around climate change and enunciate their location, challenging normative, disembodied, and universal claims. By delineating the power relationships that transform people into hierarchical categories, we can trace the socio-environmental relationships that also contribute to climate change. The identification of exclusionary structures and rules to participate in climate science and beyond can elucidate opportunities to create a more equitable knowledge base. Border crossers represent opportunities to expand our epistemological canon. To resolve the climate crisis, we must adopt the navigating and negotiating skills of border crossers, hybrid, and bilingual world travelers. An essential vantage point to resolve the climate crisis.