Creating Mundane Networks: Modulating New Zealand's Passport System

This article begins by highlighting Mayell's (2004) call for geographers to examine New Zealand's geopolitical interests and apparatus. However, the manner in which Mayell frames his call is argued to unnecessarily limit the scope of such an examination. In supporting this claim the articl...

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Published in:Geopolitics 2007-07, Vol.12 (3), p.488-504
Main Author: Henry, Matthew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actor-network theory
Australia
Constitution
Geographic mobility
Geopolitics
Letters (Correspondence)
Networks
New Zealand
Passports
Political geography
Public Administration
Social Networks
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Summary:This article begins by highlighting Mayell's (2004) call for geographers to examine New Zealand's geopolitical interests and apparatus. However, the manner in which Mayell frames his call is argued to unnecessarily limit the scope of such an examination. In supporting this claim the article draws on an exchange of letters between two officials working in New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs and Australia's Department of the Interior concerning the administration of their respective countries passport systems. Drawing on a combination of ideas taken from critical geopolitics and Actor-Network Theory, the article argues for recognition of the mundane practice, and objects, of geopolitics as important constitutive fields in their own right.
ISSN:1465-0045
1557-3028
DOI:10.1080/14650040701305674