1st Edition
Routing Borders Between Territories, Discourses and Practices
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
This title was first published in 2003. This multi-disciplinary reading focuses on the latent meaningful and contextual strategies that are often implied and included in bordering processes. It demonstrates that the border as a concept is not so much an object, but rather an ongoing process. The book also consciously and provocatively balances the modernist trap of universalism, exclusive... Read more
List of Figures and Tables, List of Contributors, 1. Prologue: A Border is Not a Border. Writing and Reading Borders in Space, PART I: CONTESTED POLITICS OF SECURITY AND BELONGING, 2. Post-Cold War Security Borders: A Conceptual Approach, 3. Borders of Security in Estonia, 4. Post-Cold War Romania: A Study in the Construction of Security and Identity, 5. The Boundaries of Contested Identities: ‘Kachin’ and ‘Karenni’ Spaces in the Troubled Borderlands of Burma, PART II: POLITICIZING NATURE: NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES OF INCLUSION, 6. Environmental Boundaries of Inclusion, 7. Hydro-borders in South Asia: Geopolitical Imaginations and Contestations, PART III: IMAGINING AND (CON)TEXTUALIZING BORDERED SPACE, 8. Bridging Identity and Alterity: An Apologia for Boundaries, 9. Presenting Representations: On the Analysis of Narratives and Images Along the Dutch-German Border, 10. Gnawing at the Edges of the State: Deleuze and Guattari and Border Studies, PART IV: TRANSBORDER AND CROSS-STATE INVESTIGATIONS, 11. The Institutionalization of Borders in Central and Eastern Europe: A Means to What End?, 12. Re-Imagining the ‘Scalar Fix’ of Transborder Governance: The Case of the Maas-Rhein Euregio, 13. Stateless in South Asia: The Making of the India-Bangladesh Enclaves, EPILOGUE, 14. Boundary Geopolitics: Towards a Theory of Territorial Lines?, Index
Biography
H.Van Houltum, Eiki Berg
