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Informationen zum Autor Xiangming Chen is Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies and the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College, as well as a distinguished guest professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. Klappentext This innovative book examines the complexities of de-bordering and re-bordering through a systematic comparison of seven transborder subregions along the western Pacific Rim and an extended analysis of the U.S.-Mexico border and several European border regions. Xiangming Chen offers a synthetic explanation for the complex and diverse processes and outcomes of economic growth, social transformation, and urban landscapes in the new transnational spaces around the porous and mutated borders of the Pacific Rim and beyond. Zusammenfassung This innovative book examines the complexities of de-bordering and re-bordering through a systematic comparison of seven transborder subregions along the western Pacific Rim and an extended analysis of the U.S.-Mexico border and several European border regions. Xiangming Chen ... Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Bending Borders and Emerging Transnational Spaces Chapter 1: Transborder Dynamics in a Global Era: Situating the Asia-Pacific Transborder Subregions Chapter 2: The Asia-Pacific Transborder Subregions: The Phenomenon, Historical Backdrop, and Conceptualization Chapter 3: From Different Perspectives to an Integrated Framework: A Synthetic Explanation Part II: Diversity among Three East Asian Cases Chapter 4: Binding Porous Borders: The Greater Southeast China Subregion Chapter 5: Bridging Ocean Boundaries: The Bohai/Yellow Sea Subregion Chapter 6: Spanning Socialist and Post-Socialist Borders: The Greater Tumen Subregion and Beyond Part III: Comparisons, Generalizations, and Implications Chapter 7: Four Cases across Southeast Asia Chapter 8: Variations between the Pacific and the Atlantic Chapter 9: Re-bordering Transnational Spaces: Theoretical Contributions and Practical Challenges ...
