Border Regions Series: Border Regions Series
About the Book Series
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In recent years, borders have taken on an immense significance. Throughout the world they have shifted, been constructed and dismantled, and become physical barriers between socio-political ideologies. They may separate societies with very different cultures, histories, national identities or economic power, or divide people of the same ethnic or cultural identity. As manifestations of some of the world's key political, economic, societal and cultural issues, borders and border regions have received much academic attention over the past decade. This valuable series publishes high quality research monographs and edited comparative volumes that deal with all aspects of border regions, both empirically and theoretically. It will appeal to scholars interested in border regions and geopolitical issues across the whole range of social sciences.
The Politics of Good Neighbourhood: State, civil society and the enhancement of cultural capital in East Central Europe
1st Edition
By Béla Filep
June 14, 2018
Analyzing neighbourly relations in multicultural societies, this book develops a concept of good neighbourhood and argues that cultural capital in various forms is the determining variable in building good-neighbourly relations. This work breaks new ground by offering a conceptual integration of ...
Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Jaime Moreno Tejada, Bradley Tatar
May 02, 2018
Frontiers are "wild." The frontier is a zone of interaction between distinct polities, peoples, languages, ecosystems and economies, but how do these frontier spaces develop? If the frontier is shaped by the policing of borders by the modern-nation state, then what kind of zones, regions or ...
Informal Trade, Gender and the Border Experience: From Political Borders to Social Boundaries
1st Edition
By Olga Sasunkevich
February 12, 2018
Detailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism - cross-border petty trade and smuggling - as the history of a practice in daily life from a gendered perspective, this book considers how changes in these practices in a particular border region, between Belarus and Lithuania, have...
Israelis and Palestinians in the Shadows of the Wall: Spaces of Separation and Occupation
1st Edition
By Stéphanie Latte Abdallah, Cédric Parizot
February 06, 2018
Shedding light on the recent mutations of the Israeli separation policy, whose institutional and spatial configurations are increasingly complex, this book argues that this policy has actually reinforced the interconnectedness of Israelis and Palestinian lives and their spaces. Instead of focusing ...
Mobility and Migration Choices: Thresholds to Crossing Borders
1st Edition
By Martin van der Velde, Ton van Naerssen
February 06, 2018
The crossing of national state borders is one of the most-discussed issues of contemporary times and it poses many challenges for individual and collective identities. This concerns both short-distance mobility as well as long-distance migration. Choosing to move - or not - across international ...
Russian Borderlands in Change: North Caucasian Youth and the Politics of Bordering and Citizenship
1st Edition
By Tiina Sotkasiira
February 06, 2018
While moving across borders has been made easier for some in Russia in recent years, for others, physical as well as socio-cultural borders are proving to be more and more difficult to cross. Tackling the differences between the ways in which official discourses construct borders and the ways ...
Borders, Fences and Walls: State of Insecurity?
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Vallet
January 24, 2018
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question remains ’Do good fences still make good neighbours’? Since the Great Wall of China, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian's Wall, the Roman ’Limes’ or the Danevirk fence, the ’wall’ has been a constant in the protection ...
Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making
1st Edition
By Chiara Brambilla, Jussi Laine, Gianluca Bocchi
December 18, 2017
Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, ...
The Politics of Dialogue: Living Under the Geopolitical Histories of War and Peace
1st Edition
By Ranabir Samaddar
May 16, 2017
Offering a detailed analysis of post-colonial South Asia, The Politics of Dialogue discusses the creation and impact of borders and the pervasive tension between the new nations. Neither all-out war nor complete peace, this fragile condition makes political leaders and strategists feel ...
The Border Multiple: The Practicing of Borders between Public Policy and Everyday Life in a Re-scaling Europe
1st Edition
By Martin Klatt, Dorte Jagetic Andersen
February 01, 2017
Addressing and conceptualizing the changing character of borders in contemporary Europe, this book examines developments occurring in the light of European integration processes and an on-going tightening of Europe's external borders. Moreover, the book suggests new ways of investigating the nature...
Beyond Walls: Re-inventing the Canada-United States Borderlands
1st Edition
By Victor Konrad, Heather Nicol
November 28, 2016
September 11, 2001 marked the beginning of a new era of security imperatives for many countries. The border between Canada and the United States suddenly emerged from relative obscurity to become a focus of constant attention by media, federal and state/provincial governments on both sides of the ...
B/ordering Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Olivier Kramsch, Henk van Houtum
November 10, 2016
In the wake of globalization, numerous social scientists are turning to concepts of mobility, fluidity and hybridity to characterize a presumed de-territorialization and de-bordering of contemporary social and economic relations. This book brings together a select group of internationally renowned ...