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Culled from decades of firsthand observations, this text is a cross-regional analysis of border people and borderlands of the North and post-colonial South. Focusing on themes of trade, migration, and security, Staudt highlights the importance of states, their length of time since independence, and border bureaucrats' discretionary practices.
List of contents
1. Border Politics in a Global Era
2. Geography, Maps, and the 'Other' in History"
3. Global Inequalities and Local Borderlands: Laying the Conceptual Foundations"
4. The Americas: An Interdependent US-Mexico Borderlands
5. From Borderlessness to the Scars of Partition in Post-Colonial South Asia
6. European Integration (Under Threat): Mobility in a Superstructure
7. Maritime and Riverine Borders
8. Securities: Environment, Safety, and Survival
9. Citizenship, Migration, and People's Movement across Borders
10. Freer and Fairer Trade in Borderlands
11. Borderlands in Films
12. Toward Solutions in Policy Change, Institutions and Democracy: Global to Borderlands
13. Conclusions: Answering Questions, Asking More while Advancing Border Theories
About the author
Kathleen Henderson Staudt has worked as a teacher, poet, and spiritual director at Virginia Theological Seminary, Wesley seminary, the University of Maryland, College Park, and Washington National Cathedral. Her poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in Weavings, Christianity and Literature, Cross Currents, Sewanee Theological Review, Living Prayer, The Anglican Theological Review, Ruminate, Spiritus and Presence, and others. She is the author of At the Turn of a Civilization: David Jones and Modern Poetics and two other books of poems: Waving Back: Poems of Mothering Life, and Good Places.
Summary
Culled from decades of firsthand observations, this text is a cross-regional analysis of border people and borderlands of the North and post-colonial South. Focusing on themes of trade, migration, and security, Staudt highlights the importance of states, their length of time since independence, and border bureaucrats’ discretionary practices.
