Hastings (Hrsg.) Donnan

Borderlands

Ethnographic Approaches to Security, Power, and Identity

Buch

Borderlands are often seen as zones of instability, uncertainty, marginality, and danger. Yet, they increasingly attract the attention of ethnographers as a unique lens through which to view the intersections of the national, transnational, and global forces that shape the securities and insecurities of our globalizing age. The contributors to this volume examine how different kinds of (in)security manifest and interconnect at state borders, encompassing the personal and the political, the social and the economic, in ways that reinforce or undermine the identities of those whose lives these borders frame. Drawing upon case studies from the So… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Wilson, Thomas M (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-7618-5123-3
EAN: 9780761851233
Produktnummer: 7330474
Verlag: University Press Of America
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 242 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 242

Über den Autor

Hastings Donnan is professor of social anthropology at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. Thomas M. Wilson is professor and chair of anthropology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Together, they have authored or edited many books and journals on borders, including Border Approaches: Anthropological Perspectives on Frontiers (UPA 1994), Border Identities: Nation and State as International Frontiers (Cambridge University Press 1998), Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation, and State (Berg 1999, 2001), European States at Their Borderlands (Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology 2003), and Culture and Power at the Edges of the State: National Support and Subversion in European Borderlands (Lit Verlag 2005). Contributors include: Matthew Amster (Gettysburg College), Josiah Heyman (University of Texas at El Paso), Hilary Cunningham (University of Toronto), Carmen Ferradas (Binghamton University), Melissa Gauthier (Binghamton University), Ioannis Manos (University of Western Macedonia).