Thomas M. (Hrsg.) Wilson

A Companion to Border Studies

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Dramatic growth in the number of international borders has coincided in recent years with greater mobility than ever before-of goods, people and ideas. As a result, interest in borders as a focus of academic study has developed into a dynamic, multi-disciplinary field, embracing perspectives from anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. Authors provide a comprehensive examination of key characteristics of borders and frontiers, including cross-border cooperation, security and controls, migration and population displacements, hybridity, and transnationalism.Companion to Border Studies brings toget… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Donnan, Hastings (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-119-11167-2
EAN: 9781119111672
Produktnummer: 18593694
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 636 S.
Masse: H17.3 cm x B24.4 cm x D3.0 cm 1'050 g
Gewicht: 1050
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

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.