Bordering and ordering the twenty-first century : understanding borders
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Bibliographic Information
Bordering and ordering the twenty-first century : understanding borders
（Human geography in the new millennium）
Rowman & Littlefield, c2012
- : pbk
Available at / 4 libraries
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Etchujima library, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology工流通情報システム
: pbk312.9/P81201850868
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-174) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This timely book explores the central role that borders play in shaping the contemporary world. Building on a discussion of border thinking and making from antiquity to the present, Gabriel Popescu applies a critical eye to current border-making concepts, processes, and contexts. Throughout, he offers a balanced understanding of borders, explaining why and how interstate borders have emerged, whose interest they serve, who is involved in border making, and how border-making practices affect societies. Assessing the latest theoretical approaches to border studies, the author deftly incorporates a range of disciplinary perspectives, including geography, international relations, sociology, history, security studies, and anthropology. Popescu explores recent world events, discussing how current issues such as migration, terrorism, global warming, pandemics, the international human rights regime, outsourcing, the economic crisis, supranational integration, regionalization, and digital technology relate to borders and influence our lives. Written with a clear eye and voice, this book makes a complex subject accessible to a wide readership.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Making Sense of Borders
Chapter 2: Borders Before and During the Modern Era
Chapter 3: Borders in the Era of Globalization
Chapter 4: Producing Global Border Spaces
Chapter 5: Controlling Mobility
Chapter 6: Bridging Borders
Conclusion
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