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Eurasian borderlands : spatializing borders in the aftermath of state collapse
\"This book examines changing and emerging state and state-like borders in the post-Soviet space in the decades following state collapse. This book argues border-making is not only about states' physical marking of territory and claims to sovereignty but also about people's spatial practices over time. In order to illustrate how borders come about and are maintained, this book looks at border communities at internal, open administrative borders and borders in the making, as well as physically demarcated international state borders. This book also pays attention to both the spatial and temporal aspects of borders and the interplay between boundaries and borders over time and thus identifies some of the processes at play as space is territorialized in Eurasia in the aftermath of state collapse.\"--Back cover.
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Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland
This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of modern South Asia, built around a case study of the Nepal ethnic group that lives in the borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling, and east Nepal. Grounded in historical and ethnographic research, it critically examines the relationship between culture and politics in a geographical space that is home to a diverse range of ethnic identities, showing how new modes of political representation, cultural activism, and everyday politics have emerged from the region.
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Contested borders: organized crime, governance, and bordering practices in Colombia-Venezuela borderlands
Based on the conceptualizations of organized crime as both an enterprise and a form of governance, borderland as a spatial category, and borders as institutions, this paper looks at the politics of bordering practices by organized crime in the Colombian-Venezuelan borderlands. It posits that contrary to the common assumptions about transnational organized crime, criminal organizations not only blur or erode the border but rather enforce it to their own benefit. In doing so, these groups set norms to regulate socio-spatial practices, informal and illegal economies, and migration flows, creating overlapping social orders and, lastly, (re)shaping the borderland. Theoretically, the analysis brings together insights from political geography, border studies, and organized crime literature, while empirically, it draws on direct observation, criminal justice data, and in-depth interviews.
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Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland
This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of modern South Asia, built around a case study of the Nepal ethnic group that lives in the borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling, and east Nepal.
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Narrating victimhood
Mythologies and narratives of victimization pervade contemporary Croatia, set against the backdrop of militarized notions of masculinity and the political mobilization of religion and nationhood. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in rural Dalmatia in the Croatian-Bosnian border region, this book provides a unique account of the politics of ambiguous Europeanness from the perspective of those living at Europe's margins. Examining phenomena such as Marian apparitions, a historic knights tournament, the symbolic re-signification of a massacre site, and the desolate social situation of Croatian war veterans,Narrating Victimhoodtraces the complex mechanisms of political radicalization in a post-war scenario. This book provides a new perspective for understanding the ongoing processes of transformation in Southeastern Europe and the Balkans.
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Border Conditions
Border Conditions combines
history and memory studies with literary and cultural studies to
examine lives at the limits of contemporary Europe: Russian
speakers living in Latvia. Since the fall of the USSR in
1991, Latvia's Russian speakers have balanced between Russia and
Europe as well as a socialist past, a capitalist and liberal
present, and an illiberal regime rising in the Russian Federation.
Kevin M. F. Platt describes how members of this population have
defined themselves through art, literature, cultural institutions,
film, and music-and how others have sought to define them.
At the end of the Cold War, many anticipated that societies
globally could agree on the meaning of past history and a just
politics in the present. The view from the borders of Europe
demonstrates the contradictions pertaining to terms like
empire, state socialism, liberalism , and nation
that have made it impossible to achieve a consensus. In refocusing
the examination of state socialism's aftermath around questions of
empire and postcolonialism, Border Conditions helps us
understand the distinctions between Russian and Western worldviews
driving military confrontation to this day.
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Border Tunnels
A comparative media analysis of the representation of
the U.S.-Mexico border
Border tunnels at the U.S.-Mexico border are ubiquitous in news,
movies, and television, yet, because they remain hidden and
inaccessible, the public can encounter them only through media.
Analyzing the technologies, institutional politics, narrative
tropes, and aesthetic decisions that go into showing border tunnels
across multiple forms of media, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez argues that
we cannot properly address border issues without attending to-and
fully understanding-the fraught relationship between their
representation and reality.
Llamas-Rodriguez reveals that every media text about border
tunnels, whether meant for entertainment, cable news, video games,
or speculative design, implicitly takes a position on the politics
of the border. The examples laid out in Border Tunnels
will teach readers how to look differently at the border as it is
commonly presented in various forms of media, from ABC's
Nightline and CNN's Anderson Cooper 360º to
reality TV, propaganda videos, and even digital effects in
Hollywood action films. Llamas-Rodriguez examines how creative
decisions in the production, promotion, and distribution of these
media texts either emphasize or downplay issues such as border
security, racial dynamics of migration, and sustainability of the
borderlands.
Focusing on tunnels to show how media representations can
influence all kinds of audiences-even those physically near the
border- Border Tunnels helps us make sense of this pressing
social issue, ultimately advancing understanding of the U.S.-Mexico
border in all of its complexity and precariousness.
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Stalemate: autonomy and insurgency along the China-Myanmar border
\"This book is an ethnographic account of political relations in an autonomous highland region in Myanmar, governed by the country's largest insurgent group, the United Wa State Army\"--.
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Border Policing
An extensive history examining how North American nations have tried (and often failed) to police their borders, Border Policing presents diverse scholarly perspectives on attempts to regulate people and goods at borders, as well as on the ways that individuals and communities have navigated, contested, and evaded such regulation. The contributors explore these power dynamics though a series of case studies on subjects ranging from competing allegiances at the northeastern border during the War of 1812 to struggles over Indian sovereignty and from the effects of the Mexican Revolution to the experiences of smugglers along the Rio Grande during Prohibition. Later chapters stretch into the twenty-first century and consider immigration enforcement, drug trafficking, and representations of border policing in reality television. Together, the contributors explore the powerful ways in which federal authorities impose political agendas on borderlands and how local border residents and regions interact with, and push back against, such agendas. With its rich mix of political, legal, social, and cultural history, this collection provides new insights into the distinct realities that have shaped the international borders of North America.
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Nuclear Power and Geography
Nuclear power plants require cooling water. When numerous nuclear plants were built in the 1970s, they were thus placed at major rivers. This caused cross-border problems, since in Europe, many rivers crossed or constituted borders. As awareness for thermal and radioactive pollution grew, border areas became hotbeds of European anti-nuclear protest. Advocates of European integration suggested that the European Communities (EC) were best positioned to resolve this issue. This article analyses the EC rulemaking attempts regarding the siting of nuclear power plants and explains why they failed. It argues that while the cross-border nature of the problem of nuclear installations at borders justified EC-level legal solutions, the geography of nuclear plants militated against supranational solutions – at a time of national vetoes and when energy security was considered a national sovereignty concern. The article is based on the analysis of primary sources from European Union and national archives. By taking the physical and political geography of nuclear energy into account, this article offers new perspectives on the role of borders and border studies, on the history of nuclear energy and society, and on the history of European integration.
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