Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-First Century - Understanding Borders

Informationen zum Autor Gabriel Popescu is associate professor of geography in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, South Bend. Klappentext 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 international 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: Making Sense of BordersChapter 2: Borders Before and During the Modern EraChapter 3: Borders in the Era of GlobalizationChapter 4: Producing Global Border SpacesChapter 5: Controlling MobilityChapter 6: Bridging BordersConclusion

Product details

• Authors: Gabriel Popescu, Popescu Gabriel
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2011
• EAN: 9780742556225
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5622-5
• No. of pages: 192
• 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
• 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