Where Are Europe''s New Borders? - Critical Insights Into Contemporary European Bordering

By focusing on border practices, experiences and meanings throughout contemporary Europe this edited book asks the broad and timely question 'where are Europe's new borders?' Topics investigated include border violence, the power of maps and symbols (carto-politics), migrant mobility, gender and the rise of the far right in Europe.

List of contents

1. Where Are Europe’s New Borders? Ontology, Methodology and Framing 2. Inverting the Telescope on Borders that Matter: Conversations in Café Europa 3. Lies, Damned Lies & Maps: The EU’s Cartopolitical Invention of Europe 4. The Never-Ending Journey? Exclusive Jurisdictions and Migrant Mobility in Europe 5. Borders and Fear: Insecurity, Gender and the Far Right in Europe 6. The EU and Democratic Leverage: Are There Still Lessons to be Learnt from the Spanish Transition to Democracy?

About the author

Anthony Cooper is a research fellow at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queens University Belfast. His research interests coalesce around the theoretical and multidisciplinary study of borders and bordering. He is particularly interested in borders and their overlapping connection to globalisation, power, identity and everyday politics, practices and experiences.

Summary

By focusing on border practices, experiences and meanings throughout contemporary Europe this edited book asks the broad and timely question ‘where are Europe’s new borders?’ Topics investigated include border violence, the power of maps and symbols (carto-politics), migrant mobility, gender and the rise of the far right in Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Cooper, Anthony (Queens University Belfast Cooper
• Assisted by: Anthony Cooper (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2016
• EAN: 9781138685758
• ISBN: 978-1-138-68575-8
• No. of pages: 116
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, International Relations, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science