ISBN:
9781118255247
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (638 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Ser. v.45
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DDC:
304.23
Keywords:
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Abstract:
A 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 identities are being transformed by their dynamic, shifting borders where mobility is sometimes facilitated, other times impeded or prevented Offers an array of international views which together form an authoritative guide for students, instructors and researchers Reflects recent significant growth in the importance of understanding the distinctive characteristics of borders and frontiers, including cross-border cooperation, security and controls, migration and population displacements, hybridity, and transnationalism.
Abstract:
Intro -- A Companion to Border Studies -- Contents -- Figures and Table -- Notes on Contributors -- CHAPTER 1: Borders and Border Studies -- PART I: Sovereignty, Territory and Governance -- CHAPTER 2: Partition -- CHAPTER 3: Culture Theory and the US-Mexico Border -- CHAPTER 4: The African Union Border Programme in European Comparative Perspective -- CHAPTER 5: European Politics of Borders, Border Symbolism and Cross-Border Cooperation -- CHAPTER 6: Securing Borders in Europe and North America -- CHAPTER 7: Border Regimes, the Circulation of Violence and the Neo-authoritarian Turn -- PART II: States, Nations and Empires -- CHAPTER 8: Borders in the New Imperialism -- CHAPTER 9: Contested States, Frontiers and Cities -- CHAPTER 10: The State, Hegemony and the Historical British-US Border -- CHAPTER 11: Nations, Nationalism and "Borderization" in the Southern Cone -- CHAPTER 12: Debordering and Rebordering the United Kingdom -- CHAPTER 13: "Swarming" at the Frontiers of France, 1870-1885 -- CHAPTER 14: Borders and Conflict Resolution -- PART III: Security, Order and Disorder -- CHAPTER 15: Chaos and Order along the (Former) Iron Curtain -- CHAPTER 16: Border Security as Late-Capitalist "Fix" -- CHAPTER 17: Identity, the State and Borderline Disorder -- CHAPTER 18: African Boundaries and the New Capitalist Frontier -- CHAPTER 19: Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 20: Biosecurity, Quarantine and Life across the Border -- CHAPTER 21: Permeabilities, Ecology and Geopolitical Boundaries -- PART IV: Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility -- CHAPTER 22: Borders and the Rhythms of Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility -- CHAPTER 23: Remapping Borders -- CHAPTER 24: From Border Policing to Internal Immigration Control in the United States -- CHAPTER 25: Labor Migration, Trafficking and Border Controls.
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