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Belonging Across Borders argues that borders were not just made by the nation state; they also influenced social inclusion and exclusion. Focusing on practices between empires, nations, and regions and on historical subjects, it re-evaluates historical sources and explores both territorial and social boundaries.
List of contents
- 1: Levke Harders and Falko Schnicke: Practices of Borders and Belonging: Historical Perspectives
- Border Practices and Local, Regional, and National Belongings
- 2: Ursula Lehmkuhl: Processes of De-Territorialization and Re-Territorialization, and Practices of Place-Making and Belonging: The Red River Métis
- 3: Michael Rowe: Imagining the Rhineland: Region and Nation Building in France and Germany, 1790-1840
- 4: Ellen Debackere and Anne Winter: Non-Nationals between Belonging and Removal: Urban Practices of Foreigners Policies, Antwerp c.1830-1880
- 5: Levke Harders: The Region Matters: Governance and Border Practices in 1850s Alsace
- 6: Sarah Frenking: Making the French-German Border: Practices, Conceptions, and Perceptions of Spatial Policing, 1887-1914
- Belonging and Borders in Imperial and Post-Imperial Settings
- 7: Amanda Behm: When California was British: The American Pacific in the Mid-Victorian Political Imagination
- 8: Cindy McCreery: Crossing the Line: Technological, Climatic, and Racial Border Crossings in the 1901 British Imperial Royal Tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York
- 9: Falko Schnicke: Adapting to the Post-Colonial World: The Commonwealth and British Cold War Royal Diplomacy in the 1961 State Visits to India and Pakistan
- National Borders and Contested Belongings in Britain and the Commonwealth
- 10: Almuth Ebke: Between Empire and Nation: British Nationality Law and the Politics of Belonging in Post-Imperial Britain
- 11: Philip Murphy: Defining British Nationality in the Era of Decolonization
- 12: Floya Anthias: Thinking with Belonging and Unbelonging: Complexities and Translocations
About the author
Dr Levke Harders is Professor of Gender History at the University of Innsbruck. She is currently working on a book project entitled
Narratives of Foreignness and Belonging: Migration as a Discursive Process in Western European Border Regions (1815-1871) funded by the German Research Foundation. From 2008 to 2021 she worked at the University of Bielefeld. Dr Harders studied German literature, history, and gender studies, and in 2011 she obtained her Ph.D. with a dissertation on American studies. She has also published on the theory of biography and on gender history. Dr Harders writes about her migration project and her other fields of research on her blog 'Migration and Belonging'.
Dr Falko Schnicke is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. He specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century German, British, and international history and has published widely on these topics.
Summary
Belonging Across Borders argues that borders were not just made by the nation state; they also influenced social inclusion and exclusion. Focusing on practices between empires, nations, and regions and on historical subjects, it re-evaluates historical sources and explores both territorial and social boundaries.
