The Ashgate research companion to border studies

Part I Theorizing Borders: Conceptual Aspects of Border Studies

A border theory: an unattainable dream or a realistic aim for border scholars? / Anssi Paasi

Contemporary research agendas in border studies: an overview / David Newman

The mask of the border / Henk van Houtum

Borders and memory / Tatiana Zhurzhenko

Border regions as neighbourhoods / Alan K. Henrikson

The border as method: towards an analysis of political subjectivities in transmigrant spaces / Stefanie Kron

Part II Geopolitics: State, Nation and Power Relations

Borders, border studies and EU enlargement / James Wesley Scott

The 'green line' of Cyprus: a contested boundary in flux / Nicos Peristianis and John C. Mavris

Post-Soviet boundaries: territoriality, identity, security, circulation / Vladimir Kolossov

Polar regions: comparing Arctic and Antarctic border debates / Lassi Heininen and Michele Zebich-Knos

Spaces, territorialities and ethnography on the Thai-, Sino- and Indo-Myanmar boundaries / Karin Dean

Part III Border Enforcement in the 21st Century

The emerging politics of border management: policy and research considerations / Jason Ackleson

Building borders the hard way: enforcing North American security post 9/11 / Heather Nicol

Blurring boundaries/sharpening borders: analysing the US's use of military aviation technologies to secure international borders, 2001-2008 / Alison J. Williams

A retrospective look at the nature of national borders in Latin America / Edgardo Manero

The inter-Korean border region: 'meta-border' of the Cold War and metamorphic frontier of the peninsula / Valerie Gelezeau

Part IV Borders and Territorial Identities

The Mechanisms of Exclusion and Inclusion: National minorities in European border regions / Jan D. Markusse

The borderland existence of the Mongolian Kazakhs: boundaries and the construction of territorial belonging / Alexander C. Diener

Borders and territorial identity: Persian identity makes Iran an empire of the mind / Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh

Part V The Role of Borders in a Seemingly Borderless World

Waiting for work: labour migration and the political economy of borders / Roos Pijpers

A cross-boundary mega city-region in China under 'two systems': multi-level governance in the Greater Pearl River Delta / Chun Yang

Global city frontiers: Singapore's hinterland and the contested geographies of Bintan, Indonesia / Tim Bunnell, Hamzah Muzaini and James D. Sidaway

Cross-border cooperation and regional responses to NAFTA and globalization / Vera Pavlakovich-Kochi

Part VI Crossing Borders

Everyday practices of bordering and the threatened bodies of undocumented North Korean border-crossers / Eunyoung Christina Choi

Women and migration in Asia: eroding borders, new fixities / Parvati Raghuram and Nicola Piper

Western Sahara: territoriality, border conceptions and border realities / Elisabeth Baschlin and Mohamed Sidati

Part VII Creating Neighbourhoods

Different neighbours: interaction and cooperation at Finland's Western and Eastern borders / Heikki Eskelinen

Borders and neighbourhoods in the Carpatho-Pannonian area / Karoly Kocsis and Monica Maria Varadi

Transcending the national space: the institutionalization of cross-border territory in the lower Danube Euroregion / Gabriel Popescu

Part VIII Nature and Environment

Natural resources and transnational governance / Juliet J. Fall

One decade of transfrontier conservation areas in Southern Africa / Sanette L.A. Ferreira

The delimitation of maritime boundaries: an incomplete mosaic / Clive Schofield.