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Border Politics : Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization

New York : NYU Press, 2014

Online-Ressource (418 p)

Englisch

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Border Politics: Contests over Territory, Nation, Identity,and BelongingJennifer Bickham Mendez and Nancy A. Naples; Part I: Gendered, Ethno-Nationalist Strugglesand Militarization; 2. "Border Granny Wants You!": Grandmothers Policing Nation at the US-Mexico BorderJennifer L. Johnson; 3. Defending the Nation: Militarism, Women's Empowerment, and the Hindu RightMeera Sehgal; 4. Borders, Territory, and Ethnicity: Women and the Naga Peace ProcessDuncan McDuie-Ra

5. Imperial Gazes and Queer Politics: Re/Reading Female Political Subjectivity in PakistanMoon M. CharaniaPart II: Politicized Identities and Belonging; 6. Indigenous Peoples and Colonial Borders: Sovereignty, Nationhood, Identity, and ActivismSarah Maddison; 7. Constricting Boundaries: Collective Identity in the Tea Party MovementDeana A. Rohlinger, Jesse Klein, Tara M. Stamm, and Kyle Rogers; 8. Occupy Slovenia: How Migrant Movements Contributed to New Forms of Direct DemocracyMaple Razsa and Andrej Kurnik

9. Challenging Borders, Imagining Europe: Transnational LGBT Activism in a New EuropePhillip M. Ayoub and David PaternottePart III: Contested Solidarities and Emerging Sitesof Struggle; 10. Frames, Boomerangs, and Global Assemblages: Border Distortions in the Global Resistance to Dam Buildingin LesothoYvonne A. Braun and Michael C. Dreilin; 11. Networks, Place, and Barriers to Cross-Border Organizing: ""No Border" Camping in Transcarpathia, UkraineRenata Blumberg and Raphi Rechitsky

12. "Giving Wings to Our Dreams": Binational Activism and Workers' Rights Struggles in the San Diego-TijuanaBorder RegionMichelle Téllez and Cristina SanidadConclusion; 13. Border Politics: Creating a Dialogue between Border Studies 357and Social MovementsJennifer Bickham Mendez and Nancy A. Naples; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

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Print version: Border Politics : Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization

978-1-4798-9899-2

978-1-4798-9899-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

978-1-4798-5817-0 ( : 93.31 (NL))

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JC323 .B648 2014

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LOC-SH: Electronic books

Boundaries ; Social aspects ; Borderlands ; Social aspects ; Group identity ; Collective memory ; Social movements ; Electronic books

In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the social and political landscape. "Borders"-defined broadly to include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural boundaries-have become increasingly salient sites of struggle over social belonging and cultural and material resources. How do contemporary activists navigate and challenge these borders? What meanings do they ascribe to different social, cultural and political boundaries, and how do these meanings shape the strategies in which they engage? Moreov