Where it divides Arizona and Sonora, the international boundary between Mexico and the United States is both a political reality, literally expressed by a fence, and, to a considerable degree, a cultural illusion. Mexican, Anglo, and Native American cultures straddle the fence; …
Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shaghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage 'the mountains are high and the Emperor far away', meaning Beijing's…
Focusing on the re-unification of Germany, this text asks what happens when a political and economic system collapses overnight. It concentrates especially on how these changes have affected certain "border zones" of daily life - including social organization, gender and religio…
Fences and frames : narrativising the borderlands -- B/ordering spaces : governing multi-ethnic borderlands -- Barriers to bridges : geoeconomic text, geopolitical subtext -- Competing or compatible? : interrogating India-China subregional visions -- Fugitive frames : rewriting …
The India-China borderlands have remained largely in a freeze frame, awaiting a new political imagination that has been a long time coming. This book offers a critical comparative analysis of India-China relations at the subregional level, an analytical level that remains an und…
by Ghertner, D. Asher, Knuth, Sarah, Watts, Michael John, Balakrishnan, Sai, Morris, Meghan L., Harms, Erik, Levien, Michael, Christophers, Brett, Whiteside, Heather, Lake, Robert W., Dwyer, Michael B., Ferring, David, Hausermann, Heidi, Shih, Mi, Teresa, Benjamin F.
fromCornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Deve…
Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates global patterns of property formation, the dispossessions property markets enact, and the popular movements to halt the growing wave…
by Ghertner, D. Asher, Knuth, Sarah, Watts, Michael John, Balakrishnan, Sai, Morris, Meghan L., Harms, Erik, Levien, Michael, Christophers, Brett, Whiteside, Heather, Lake, Robert W., Dwyer, Michael B., Ferring, David, Hausermann, Heidi, Shih, Mi, Teresa, Benjamin F.
fromCornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Deve…
Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates global patterns of property formation, the dispossessions property markets enact, and the popular movements to halt the growing wave…
by Ghertner, D. Asher, Knuth, Sarah, Watts, Michael John, Balakrishnan, Sai, Morris, Meghan L., Harms, Erik, Levien, Michael, Christophers, Brett, Whiteside, Heather, Lake, Robert W., Dwyer, Michael B., Ferring, David, Hausermann, Heidi, Shih, Mi, Teresa, Benjamin F.
fromCornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Deve…
Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates global patterns of property formation, the dispossessions property markets enact, and the popular movements to halt the growing wave…
