Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-First Century - Understanding Borders

This timely book introduces readers to the central question of borders in the twenty-first century. After familiarizing readers with border thinking and making from antiquity to the present, Gabriel Popescu turns a critical eye on current concepts, processes, and contexts. Assessing the latest theoretical approaches to border studies, the author deftly incorporates a range of disciplinary perspectives, including geography, international relations, sociology, history, security studies, and anthropology. He explores recent world events, discussing how current issues such as migration, terrorism, global warming, pandemics, the human rights regime, outsourcing, the economic crisis, supranational integration, regionalization, and digital technology relate to borders and influence our lives. Written with a clear eye and voice, this book makes a complex subject accessible to a wide readership.

List of contents

1 Preface 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter One: Making Sense of Borders Chapter 4 Chapter Two: Borders Before and During the Modern Era Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Borders in the Era of Globalization Chapter 6 Chapter Four: Producing Global Border Spaces Chapter 7 Chapter Five: Controlling Mobility Chapter 8 Chapter Six: Bridging Borders Chapter 9 Chapter Seven: Conclusions

About the author

By Gabriel Popescu

Product details

• Authors: Gabriel Popescu, Popescu Gabriel
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2011
• EAN: 9780742556218
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5621-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications; Human Geography in the New Mil; Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications; Human Geography in the Twenty-
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Latin American studies