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Borderlands - Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition (Paperback)
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Borderlands - Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition (Paperback)
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Loot Price R535
Discovery Miles 5 350
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The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on
the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have
sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become
familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do
we know about the border places these liminal zones between
countries and continents that have become the focus of so much
attention and anxiety today, and what do we know about the
individuals who occupy these places? In this timely book,
anthropologist Michel Agier addresses these questions and examines
the character of the borderlands that emerge on the margins of
nation-states. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork, he shows that
borders, far from disappearing, have acquired a new kind of
centrality in our societies, becoming reference points for the
growing numbers of people who do not find a place in the countries
they wish to reach. They have become the site for a new kind of
subject, the border dweller, who is both 'inside' and 'outside',
enclosed on the one hand and excluded on the other, and who is
obliged to learn, under harsh conditions, the ways of the world and
of other people. In this respect, the lives of migrants, even in
the uncertainties or dangers of the borderlands, tell us something
about the condition in which everyone is increasingly living today,
a 'cosmopolitan condition' in which the experience of the
unfamiliar is more common and the relation between self and other
is in constant renewal.
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