The Ashgate research companion to border studies

by Wastl-Walter, Doris

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Title Statements

Full title :The Ashgate research companion to border studies / edited by Doris Wastl-Walter.

Summary

Throughout history, the functions and roles of borders have been continuously changing. They can only be understood in their context, shaped as they are by history, politics and power, as well as cultural and social issues. Borders are therefore complex spatial and social phenomena which are not static or invariable, but which are instead highly dynamic. This comprehensive volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of leading scholars to provide an authoritative, state-of-the-art review of all aspects of borders and border research. It is truly global in scope and, besides embracing the more traditional strands of the field including geopolitics, migration and territorial identities, it also takes in recently emerging topics such as the role of borders in a seemingly borderless world; creating neighbourhoods, and border enforcement in the post-9/11 era.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Burlington, Vt
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxi, 705 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780754690474, 0754690474, 0754674061, 9780754674061
oclc:ocn742514262
LC Classification:JC323
Dewey Decimal:320.1/2

pt. 1. Theorizing borders : conceptual aspects of border studies -- pt. 2. Geopolitics : state, nation and power relations -- pt. 3. Border enforcement in the 21st century -- pt. 4. Borders and territorial identities : the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion -- pt. 5. The rold of borders in a seemingly borderless world -- pt. 6. Crossing borders -- pt. 7. Creating neighbourhoods -- pt. 7. Nature and environment.

Subjects

Borderlands Boundaries Electronic books Ethnicité Ethnicity Frontières Géographie politique Grenze Grenzgebiet Human geography marches (districts) POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference Politische Geografie Régions frontalières