"Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a 'humanitarian case'. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their per…
China's rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China's likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular …
Review: "The Bengal Borderland constitutes the epicentre of the partition of British India. Yet while the forging of international borders between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (the 'Bengal Borderland') as been a core theme in Partition studies, these crucial borderlands…
"The Bengal Borderland constitutes the epicentre of the partition of British India. Yet while the forging of international borders between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (the 'Bengal Borderland') as been a core theme in Partition studies, these crucial borderlands have, r…
Studies the presence of Chinese immigrants in Arizona and Sonora in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Exploring the links between armed conflict and transnational crime, Florian Weigand builds on in-depth empirical research into some of Southeast Asia's murkiest borders. The disparate voices of drug traffickers, rebel fighters, government officials and victims of armed conflict …
Exploring the links between armed conflict and transnational crime, Florian Weigand builds on in-depth empirical research into some of Southeast Asia's murkiest borders. The disparate voices of drug traffickers, rebel fighters, government officials and victims of armed conflict …
"The Beloved Border is a potent and timely report on the U.S.-Mexico border. Though this book tells of the unjust death and suffering that occurs in the borderlands, Davidson gives us hope that the U.S.-Mexico border could be, and in many ways already is, a model for peaceful co…
Border spaces -- Standoff in the border river -- Making a living in the cross-border economy -- Indigenous peoples of the borderlands -- Friends, foes, and kin across the border -- Resources and environment -- Bright lights across the Amur. "The Russia-China border is a study i…
"'Capital mediators' argues that mining engineers were the critical intermediaries responsible for integrating the transnational hard-rock mining districts of North America into the economic system of the United States. Working as labor managers and technical experts, mining eng…
State borders and multispecies mobility regimes : endangered, invasive, exotic -- Banana rats at Guantánamo Bay : precarious life and interspecies security -- Animal sovereignties and the wolves of Isle Royale -- Nonhuman personhood and the new rights of nature -- From the quest…
Murder it remains: migration, parasitic violence, and mortality / Miranda Cady Hallett and Jamie Longazel -- Death by enclosure: human rights organizations, migrant fatalities, and the delimitation of the global commons / Joseph Nevins -- Living and dying in El Norte: the framin…
