Deepening Divides How Physical Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate Our World

Informationen zum Autor Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of numerous books including The Will to Punish (2018), Life: A Critical Users Manual (2018), Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (2016) and Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing. Klappentext At a glance, 'borders' and 'boundaries' may seem synonymous. But in the real (geopolitical) world, they coexist as distinct, albeit overlapping entities: the former a state's delimitation of territory/the latter the social delineation of differences. The refugee crisis in Europe showed how racial and ethnic boundaries are often instrumentalised to justify the strengthening of state borders - regardless of the cost in human life. But there are other, less tragic, examples that illustrate this overlapping as well, and ultimately demonstrate that the oft-differentiated spheres of borders and boundaries are best understood through their relationship to one another. Deepening Divides explores this relationship from many distinct perspectives and national contexts, with case studies covering five continents and drawing on anthropology, gender studies, law, political science and sociology for a truly interdisciplinary collection. Zusammenfassung A non-Eurocentric! interdisciplinary collection arguing that boundaries and borders are best understood as overlapping categories.

Product details

• Authors: Didier Fassin
• Assisted by: Didier Fassin (Editor), Fassin Didier (Editor)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.12.2019
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research
• EAN: 9780745340432
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4043-2
• Pages: 272
• Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Gaza, LAW / International, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Citizenship, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Muslim Ban;Chinese Exclusion;Citizenship;Gaza;Muslim Communalism;Migrant Domestic Workers;Blood Kinship;Asiatic Barred Zone, Chinese Exclusion, Asiatic Barred Zone, Muslim Communalism, migrant domestic workers, Blood Kinship