Border Encounters: Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers

Published by Berghahn Books 2013

Border Encounters

Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers

Edited by: Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782381389

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About this book

Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally. This volume investigates, from a local, ground-up perspective, what is happening at some of these border encounters: face-to-face interactions and relations of compliance and confrontation, where people are bargaining, exchanging goods and information, and maneuvering beyond state boundaries. Anthropological case studies from a number of European borderlands shed light on the questions of how, and to what extent, the border context influences the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier.

Author / Editor information

Jutta Lauth Bacas holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Zurich with a special focus on migration studies. She has held teaching positions at universities in both Switzerland and Germany and also worked as a researcher at the Academy of Athens, Greece. Co-founder of the Mediterraneanist Network of EASA, she is a member of the Advisory Board of InASEA and co-editor of issues of Ethnologia Balkanica and the Journal of Mediterranean Studies.

William Kavanagh, until his sudden death in 2014, was a Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology at CEU San Pablo University and the Madrid campuses of New York University and Suffolk University. He co-founded the Mediterraneanist Network of EASA, and was on the executive committees of two Spanish anthropological associations and was a delegate on the World Council of Anthropological Associations.

Jutta Lauth Bacas holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Zurich with a special focus on migration studies. She has held teaching positions at universities in both Switzerland and Germany and also worked as a researcher at the Academy of Athens, Greece. Co-founder of the Mediterraneanist Network of EASA, she is a member of the Advisory Board of InASEA and co-editor of issues of Ethnologia Balkanica and the Journal of Mediterranean Studies.

Reviews

“…provides a rich and thought provoking perspective on encounters and connectivity at the borders of Europe – both internal and external.” · The Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland

“As befits anthropology, Border Encounters is rich in empirical detail. However, it is also an excellent introduction to border theory, with a helpful literature review. The theoretical framework clearly set out in the Introduction and the individual chapters do collectively illustrate why borders should be seen as constructs and as sites of asymmetrical social relationships…All in all, this is an intriguing and well-structured volume which will be of interest to students and scholars from a variety of academic disciplines.” · LSE Review of Books

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Border Encounters Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe’s Frontiers Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Opening Borders
Chapter 1 Consumer Rites The Politics of Consumption in Re-unified Germany Daphne Berdahl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 2 Cross-Border Relations and Regional Identity on the Polish-German Border Robert Parkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Chapter 3 The Skeleton versus the Little Grey Men Conflicting Cultures of Anti-nuclear Protest at the Czech-Austrian Border Birgit Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
Chapter 4 Powerful Documents Passports, Passages and Dilemmas of Identification on the Georgian-Turkish Border Mathĳs Pelkmans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Chapter 5 Proximity and Asymmetry on the Portuguese-Spanish Border William Kavanagh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Part II Strengthening Borders
Chapter 6 Asymmetries of Gender and Generation in a Post-Soviet Borderland Laura Assmuth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter 7 ‘We Are All Tourists’ Enduring Social Relations at the Romanian-Serbian Border in Different Mobility Regimes Cosmin Radu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Chapter 8 ‘We Used to Be One Country’ Rural Transformations, Economic Asymmetries and National Identities in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands Tatiana Zhurzhenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Part III Crossing Forbidden Borders
Chapter 9 Under One Roof The Changing Social Geography of the Border in Cyprus Lisa Dikomitis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Chapter 10 The Birth of a Border Policing by Charity on the Italian Maritime Edge Maurizio Albahari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Chapter 11 Managing Proximity and Asymmetry in Border Encounters The Reception of Undocumented Migrants on a Greek Border Island Jutta Lauth Bacas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 302
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Mobility Studies

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Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9781782381389