Borderlands - Ethnographic Approaches to Security, Power, and Identity (Paperback)

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 Southern Cone, the U.S.-Mexico border, and borders in Greece, Ireland, and southeast Asia, the authors show that borders raise questions of security not just for those who live and cross them, including ethnographers, but also for the sustainability of the physical environments and wildlife disturbed by the passage, movement, and containment borders generate.

General

Imprint:	University Press of America
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	May 2010
Editors:	Hastings Donnan • Thomas M. Wilson
Dimensions:	232 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	158
ISBN-13:	978-0-7618-5123-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	0-7618-5123-2
Barcode:	9780761851233

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