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The Ashgate research companion to border studies
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Ashgate
Publication Date
c2011
Language
English
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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.
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9780754690474
9780754674061
9781317043980
9780754674061
9781317043980
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