Screen LibraryA companion to border studies /
Introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that include anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. Explores how nations and cultural identi...
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| Published: |
John Wiley & Sons Ltd.,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex, UK : |
| Publication Dates: |
2016. �2012 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Blackwell companions to anthropology ;
volume 19 |
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| Summary: |
Introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that include anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. Explores how nations and cultural identities are being transformed by their dynamic, shifting borders where mobility is sometimes facilitated, other times impeded or prevented. |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 620 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781119111672 (paperback) : 1119111676 (paperback) 9781405198936 (hardback : alkaline paper) 1405198931 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | JC323 |
| CLC: | K901.4 |
| Call Number: | K901.4/C737-3 |
| Contents: |
Borders and border studies / Partition / Culture theory and the US-Mexico border / The African Union Border Programme in European comparative perspective / European politics of borders, border symbolism and cross-border cooperation / Securing borders in Europe and North America / Border regimes, the circulation of violence and the neo-authoritarian turn / Borders in the new imperialism / Contested states, frontiers and cities / The state, hegemony and the historical British-US border / Nations, nationalism and "borderzation" in the Southern Cone / Debordering hte rebordering the United Kingdom / "Swarming" at the frontiers of France, 1870-1885 / Borders and conflict resolution / Chaos and order along the (former) Iron Curtain / Border security as late-capitalist "fix" / Identity, the state and borderline disorder / African boundaries and the new capitalist frontier / Bandits, borderlands and opium wars in Afghanistan / Biosecurity, quarantine and life across the border / Permeabilities, ecology and goepolitical boundaries / Borders and the rhythms of displacement, emplacement and mobility / Remapping borders / From border policing to internal immigration control in the United States / Labor migration, trafficking and border controls / Spatial strategies for rebordering human migration at sea / "B/ordering" and biopolitics in Central Asia / Border, scene and obscene / Border show business and performing states / Performativity and the eventfulness of bordering practices / Reconceptualizing the space of the Mexico-US borderline / Border towns and cities in comparative perspective / A sense of border / |