A Companion to Border Studies

by Wilson, Thomas M.; Donnan, Hastings

• ISBN13: 9781405198936
• ISBN10: 1405198931
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Border Studies offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last few decades into an exploration of how nations and cultural identities are being transformed by their shifting borders, and by transnational and global forces. Leading scholars provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of developments in the field, making this new companion an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology and migrant studies.

Author Biography

Thomas M. Wilson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. From 2008-2010 he was president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. His research interests include the anthropology of international borders, European integration and Ireland, and he is the editor of Drinking Cultures and Europeanisation and Hibernicisation.

Hastings Donnan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests include the study of borders and the anthropology of walking and driving, and he has carried out fieldwork in Ireland and Pakistan. He chairs the Anthropology and Development Studies panel in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework for 2014, and is the editor of Transgressive Sex and co-author of The Anthropology of Sex.

Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan have previously co-authored The Anthropology of Ireland and Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Table	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Borders and Border Studies	p. 1
Sovereignty, Territory and Governance	p. 27
Partition	p. 29
Culture Theory and the US-Mexico Border	p. 48
The African Union Border Programme in European Comparative Perspective	p. 66
European Politics of Borders, Border Symbolism and Cross-Border Cooperation	p. 83
Securing Borders in Europe and North America	p. 100
Border Regimes, the Circulation of Violence and the Neo-authoritarian Turn	p. 119
States, Nations and Empires	p. 137
Borders in the New Imperialism	p. 139
Contested States, Frontiers and Cities	p. 158
The State, Hegemony and the Historical British-US Border	p. 177
Nations, Nationalism and "Borderization" in the Southern Cone	p. 194
Debordering and Rebordering the United Kingdom	p. 214
"Swarming" at the Frontiers of France, 1870-1885	p. 230
Borders and Conflict Resolution	p. 249
Security, Order and Disorder	p. 267
Chaos and Order along the (Former) Iron Curtain	p. 269
Border Security as Late-Capitalist "Fix"	p. 283
Identity, the State and Borderline Disorder	p. 301
African Boundaries and the New Capitalist Frontier	p. 318
Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars in Afghanistan	p. 332
Biosecurity, Quarantine and Life across the Border	p. 354
Permeabilities, Ecology and Geopolitical Boundaries	p. 371
Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility	p. 387
Borders and the Rhythms of Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility	p. 389
Remapping Borders	p. 405
From Border Policing to Internal Immigration Control in the United States	p. 419
Labor Migration, Trafficking and Border Controls	p. 438
Spatial Strategies for Rebordering Human Migration at Sea	p. 455
"B/ordering" and Biopolitics in Central Asia	p. 473
Border, Scene and Obscene	p. 492
Space, Performance and Practice	p. 505
Border Show Business and Performing States	p. 507
Performativity and the Eventfulness of Bordering Practices	p. 522
Reconceptualizing the Space of the Mexico-US Borderline	p. 538
Border Towns and Cities in Comparative Perspective	p. 557
A Sense of Border	p. 573
Index	p. 593
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