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Informationen zum Autor Thomas M. Wilson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. From 2008-2010 he was president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. His research interests include the anthropology of international borders, European integration and Ireland, and he is the editor of Drinking Cultures and Europeanisation and Hibernicisation . Hastings Donnan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests include the study of borders and the anthropology of walking and driving, and he has carried out fieldwork in Ireland and Pakistan. He chairs the Anthropology and Development Studies panel in the UK's Research Excellence Framework for 2014, and is the editor of Transgressive Sex and co-author of The Anthropology of Sex . Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan have previously co-authored The Anthropology of Ireland and Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State . Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Table viii Notes on Contributors ix 1 Borders and Border Studies 1 Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan Part I Sovereignty, Territory and Governance 27 2 Partition 29 Brendan O'Leary 3 Culture Theory and the US-Mexico Border 48 Josiah McC. Heyman 4 The African Union Border Programme in European Comparative Perspective 66 Anthony I. Asiwaju 5 European Politics of Borders, Border Symbolism and Cross-Border Cooperation 83 James Wesley Scott 6 Securing Borders in Europe and North America 100 Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly 7 Border Regimes, the Circulation of Violence and the Neo-authoritarian Turn 119 John Borneman Part II States, Nations and Empires 137 8 Borders in the New Imperialism 139 James Anderson 9 Contested States, Frontiers and Cities 158 Liam O'Dowd 10 The State, Hegemony and the Historical British-US Border 177 Allan K. McDougall and Lisa Philips 11 Nations, Nationalism and "Borderization" in the Southern Cone 194 Alejandro Grimson 12 Debordering and Rebordering the United Kingdom 214 Cathal McCall 13 "Swarming" at the Frontiers of France, 1870-1885 230 Olivier Thomas Kramsch 14 Borders and Conflict Resolution 249 David Newman Part III Security, Order and Disorder 267 15 Chaos and Order along the (Former) Iron Curtain 269 Mathijs Pelkmans 16 Border Security as Late-Capitalist "Fix" 283 Brenda Chalfin...
