Beyond hope? An abolitionist reading of Billy Holzberg’s Affective Bordering in a time of neo-fascism: [Review of] Affective bordering: Race, deservingness and the emotional politics ofmigration control, by Billy Holzberg, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2024, 181 pp

Thom Tyerman

doi:10.1080/2158379X.2025.2509509

Beyond hope? An abolitionist reading of Billy Holzberg’s Affective Bordering in a time of neo-fascism: [Review of] Affective bordering: Race, deservingness and the emotional politics ofmigration control, by Billy Holzberg, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2024, 181 pp

Thom Tyerman

School of Social and Political Science

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-7
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Political Power
Early online date	27 May 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2025.2509509
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 27 May 2025

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Tyerman, T. (2025). Beyond hope? An abolitionist reading of Billy Holzberg’s Affective Bordering in a time of neo-fascism: [Review of] Affective bordering: Race, deservingness and the emotional politics ofmigration control, by Billy Holzberg, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2024, 181 pp. Journal of Political Power, 1-7. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2025.2509509

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Tyerman T. Beyond hope? An abolitionist reading of Billy Holzberg’s Affective Bordering in a time of neo-fascism: [Review of] Affective bordering: Race, deservingness and the emotional politics ofmigration control, by Billy Holzberg, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2024, 181 pp. Journal of Political Power. 2025 May 27;1-7. Epub 2025 May 27. doi: 10.1080/2158379X.2025.2509509

Beyond hope? An abolitionist reading of Billy Holzberg’s Affective Bordering in a time of neo-fascism: [Review of] Affective bordering: Race, deservingness and the emotional politics ofmigration control, by Billy Holzberg, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2024, 181 pp

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