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By drawing on geology's approaches to studying porosity, the book takes an innovative approach arguing that similarly to rocks and minerals that only appear solid and impermeable, seemingly impenetrable borders are inevitably traversed by different forms of passage.
List of contents
Introduction: Theoretical reflections on borders Chapter 1 - new theoretical chapter (title tbc)Chapter 2 Deadlocked borders: Macedonia and Greece in a historical perspectiveChapter 3 From 'tomato tourism' to nouveaux riches'villas: formal and informal economies, and border moralitiesChapter 4 'Win-win': casinos, beauty and health across the borderChapter 5 The bonfire of antiquity: Skopje 2014 as a bordering deviceChapter 6 Trains and rails: border transgression at the Balkan Corridor
About the author
Rozita Dimova is a social anthropologist. She has served as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Associate Professor in Southeast European Studies at Ghent University, and Scientific Member at the Center for Advanced and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
Summary
By drawing on geology’s approaches to studying porosity, the book takes an innovative approach arguing that similarly to rocks and minerals that only appear solid and impermeable, seemingly impenetrable borders are inevitably traversed by different forms of passage. -- .
