Identities, Borders, Orders
Title | Identities, Borders, Orders PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Boundaries |
ISBN | 9781452904863 |
Identities, Borders, Orders
Title | Identities, Borders, Orders PDF eBook |
Author | Mathias Albert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780816691739 |
Informed by current debates in social theory, these contributors take up a variety of substantive, theoretical, and normative issues such as migration, nationalism, citizenship, human rights, democracy, and security.
Language, Borders and Identity
Title | Language, Borders and Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Dominic Watt |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2014-10-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0748669787 |
Identifying and examining political, socio-psychological and symbolic borders, Language, Borders and Identity encompasses a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, taking a multi-disciplinary approach by combining sociolinguistics research with human geography, anthropology and social psychology.
Borders
Title | Borders PDF eBook |
Author | Hastings Donnan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2021-03-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000180794 |
Borders are where wars start, as Primo Levi once wrote. But they are also bridges - that is, sites for ongoing cultural exchange. Anyone studying how nations and states maintain distinct identities while adapting to new ideas and experiences knows that borders provide particularly revealing windows for the analysis of 'self' and 'other'. In representing invisible demarcations between nations and peoples who may have much or very little in common, borders exert a powerful influence and define how people think as well as what they do. Without borders, whether physical or symbolic, nationalism could not exist, nor could borders exist without nationalism. Surprisingly, there have been very few systematic or concerted efforts to review the experiences of nation and state at the local level of borders. Drawing on examples from the US and Mexico, Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine, Spain and Morocco, as well as various parts of Southeast Asia and Africa, this timely book offers a comparative perspective on culture at state boundaries. The authors examine the role of the state, ethnicity, transnationalism, border symbols, rituals and identity in an effort to understand how nationalism informs attitudes and behaviour at local, national and international levels. Soldiers, customs agents, smugglers, tourists, athletes, shoppers, and prostitutes all provide telling insights into the power relations of everyday life and what these relations say about borders. This overview of the importance of borders to the construction of identity and culture will be an essential text for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, geography, nationalism and immigration studies.
Border Identities
Title | Border Identities PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas M. Wilson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1998-01-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521587457 |
This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. Ten anthropological case studies describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, and bring out the importance of boundary politics, and the diverse forms that it may take. As a contribution to the wider theoretical debates about nationalism, transnationalism, and globalization, it will interest to students and scholars in anthropology, political science, international studies and modern history.
Melancholy Order
Title | Melancholy Order PDF eBook |
Author | Adam M. McKeown |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231140768 |
As Adam M. McKeown demonstrates, the push for increased border control and identity documentation is the continuation of more than 150 years of globalization. Modern passports and national borders are not only inseparable from the rise of global mobility. They are also tied to the emergence of individuals and nations as the primary sites of global power and identity. McKeown's history links the practices of border control to attempts to control Asian migration around the Pacific in the 1880s. New policies to control mobility had to be justified in the context of contemporary liberal ideas of freedom and mobility, generating such principles as the belief that migration control is a sovereign right of receiving nations and that it should occur at a country's borders. McKeown shows how the enforcement of these border controls required migrants to be extracted from social networks of identity and reconstructed as isolated individuals within centralized filing systems. Methods originally created to exclude Asians from full participation in the "family of civilized nations" are now the norm between all nations and have helped to institutionalize global cultural and economic divisions, such as East/West and First and Third World designations.
Spaces and Identities in Border Regions
Title | Spaces and Identities in Border Regions PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Wille |
Publisher | transcript Verlag |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2015-11-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3839426502 |
Spatial and identity research operates with differentiations and relations. These are particularly useful heuristic tools when examining border regions where social and geopolitical demarcations diverge. Applying this approach, the authors of this volume investigate spatial and identity constructions in cross-border contexts as they appear in everyday, institutional and media practices. The results are discussed with a keen eye for obliquely aligned spaces and identities and relinked to governmental issues of normalization and subjectivation. The studies base upon empirical surveys conducted in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg.