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Borderlands : Ethnographic Approaches to Security, Power, and Identity

Lanham : University Press of America, 2012

Online-Ressource (159 p)

Englisch

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter 1: Ethnography, security and the 'frontier effect' in borderlands; Chapter 2: US-Mexico border cultures and the challenge of asymmetrical interpenetration; Chapter 3: Security and ethnography on the Triple Frontier of the Southern Cone; Chapter 4: Researching the border's economic underworld: The 'fayuca hormiga' in the US-Mexico borderlands; Chapter 5: Symbols of security and contest along the Irish border; Chapter 6: Borderland tactics: Cross-border marriage in the highlands of Borneo

Chapter 7: Fieldwork on the border: Ethnographic engagements in south-eastern EuropeChapter 8: Gating ecology in a gated globe: Environmental aspects of 'securing our borders'; Index

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Borderlands : Ethnographic Approaches to Security, Power, and Identity

978-0-7618-5123-3

978-0-7618-5123-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 812275683     

978-0-7618-5124-0 ( : 20.17 (NL))

GN345.65.B67 2010

305.8     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Border security - Environmental aspects

Border security - Environmental aspects ; Electronic books

This book examines how different kinds of security and insecurity manifest and interconnect at state borders, encompassing the personal and the political, the social and the economic, in ways that reinforce or undermine the identities of those whose lives these borders frame