Borderlands

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Hastings Donnan and Thomas M. Wilson Klappentext This book examines how different kinds of security and insecurity manifest and interconnect at state borders, encompassing the personal and the political, the social and the economic, in ways that reinforce or undermine the identities of those whose lives these borders frame. Zusammenfassung This book examines how different kinds of security and insecurity manifest and interconnect at state borders! encompassing the personal and the political! the social and the economic! in ways that reinforce or undermine the identities of those whose lives these borders frame. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Contributors Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Ethnography, security, and the 'frontier effect' in borderlands Chapter 4 Chapter 2: US-Mexico border cultures and the challenge of asymmetrical interpenetration Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Security and ethnography on the Triple Frontier of the Southern Cone Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Researching the border's economic underworld: The 'fayuca hormiga' in the US-Mexico borderlands Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Symbols of security and contest along the Irish border Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Borderland tactics: Cross-border marriage in the highlands of Borneo Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Fieldwork on the border: Ethnographic engagements in south-eastern Europe Chapter 10 Chapter 8: Gating ecology in a gated globe: Environmental aspects of 'securing our borders' Chapter 11 Index

Product details

• Authors: Hastings/ Wilson Donnan
• Assisted by: Hastings Donnan (Editor), Donnan Hastings (Editor), Thomas M Wilson (Editor), Thomas M. Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780761851233
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-5123-3
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, International Relations, Politics & government, Sociology & anthropology