Abstract

One of the characteristics of contemporary political geography is the transformation of international borders into resources for capitalist value creation. At the same time, this has been accompanied by the emergence in them of new identities and practices that challenge the nationalist doxa. Thus, borderland political regimes seek to account for this complexity, as expressed in the way in which the nation-states perceive and try to govern these spaces of overlapping territorialities. This article discusses the situation in Latin America drawing from the analysis of the way in which three Latin American states —Chile, Colombia and Dominican Republic— perceive their borders and produce specific regulations and institutional frameworks based on both their particular histories and the requirements of neoliberal capitalist accumulation. Finally, it puts forth a series of proposals for inclusive governance systems that take the aforementioned complexities into account.