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Borders of desire takes a novel approach to the study of borders:
rather than seeing them only as obstacles to the fulfillment of
human desires, this collection focuses on how borders can also be
productive of desire. Based on long-term ethnographic engagement
with sites along the eastern borders of Europe, particularly in the
Baltics and the Balkans, the studies in this volume illuminate how
gendered and sexualized desires are generated by the existence of
borders and how they are imagined. As the chapters show, borders
can create new desires expressed as aspirations, resentments, and
actions including physical movements across borders for pleasure or
work, or collective enactments of political ideals or resistance.
The collection also shows how the persistent east/west symbolic
border continues to act as a source of these desires in European
political and social life. -- .
Since the violent events of the Bosnian war and the revelations of
ethnic cleansing that shocked the world in the early 1990s, Bosnia
has become a metaphor for the new ethnic nationalisms, for the
transformation of warfare in the post-Cold War era, and for new
forms of peacekeeping and state-building. This book is unique in
offering a re-examination of the Bosnian case with a 'bottom-up'
perspective. It gathers together cultural anthropologists and other
social scientists to consider the specificities of the Bosnian
case. However, the book also raises broader questions: what are the
consequences of internecine violence and how should societies
attempt to overcome them? Are the uncertainties and the
transformations of Bosnian post-war society due entirely to the
war, or are they related to wider processes encompassing
post-communist Europe as a whole? And are the difficulties
experienced by international state-building operations mainly due
to distinctive features of the local societies or are they due to
the policies promoted by the international community itself?
Since the violent events of the Bosnian war and the revelations of
ethnic cleansing that shocked the world in the early 1990s, Bosnia
has become a metaphor for the new ethnic nationalisms, for the
transformation of warfare in the post-Cold War era, and for new
forms of peacekeeping and state-building. This book is unique in
offering a re-examination of the Bosnian case with a 'bottom-up'
perspective. It gathers together cultural anthropologists and other
social scientists to consider the specificities of the Bosnian
case. However, the book also raises broader questions: what are the
consequences of internecine violence and how should societies
attempt to overcome them? Are the uncertainties and the
transformations of Bosnian post-war society due entirely to the
war, or are they related to wider processes encompassing
post-communist Europe as a whole? And are the difficulties
experienced by international state-building operations mainly due
to distinctive features of the local societies or are they due to
the policies promoted by the international community itself?
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