Border encounters : asymmetry and proximity at Europe's frontiers

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Border encounters : asymmetry and proximity at Europe's frontiers

edited by Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh

Berghahn Books, 2013

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Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally. This volume investigates, from a local, ground-up perspective, what is happening at some of these border encounters: face-to-face interactions and relations of compliance and confrontation, where people are bargaining, exchanging goods and information, and maneuvering beyond state boundaries. Anthropological case studies from a number of European borderlands shed light on the questions of how, and to what extent, the border context influences the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier.

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Introduction: Border Encounters - Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh PART I: OPENING BORDERS Chapter 1. Consumer Rites: the Politics of Consumption in a Re-Unified Germany Daphne Berdahl Chapter 2. Cross-Border Relations and Regional Identity on the Polish-German Border Robert Parkin Chapter 3. Anti-Nuclear Activism at the Czech-Austrian Border Birgit Muller Chapter 4. Powerful Documents: Passports, Passages and Dilemmas of Identification on the Georgian - Turkish Border Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 5. Proximity and Asymmetry on the Portuguese - Spanish Border William Kavanagh PART II: STRENGTHENING BORDERS Chapter 6. Asymmetries of Gender and Generation on a Post-Soviet Borderland Laura Assmuth Chapter 7. 'We are all tourists': Enduring Social Relations and Changing Proximities and Asymmetries at the Romanian-Serbian Border in Different Mobility Regimes Cosmin Radu Chapter 8. 'We used to be one country': Rural Transformations, Economic Asymmetries and National Identities in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands Tatiana Zhurzhenko PART III: CROSSING FORBIDDEN BORDERS Chapter 9. Under One Roof: Six Years of Border Crossings in Cyprus Lisa Dikomitis Chapter 10. The Birth of a Border: Policing by Charity on the Italian Maritime Edge Maurizio Albahari Chapter 11. Managing Proximity and Asymmetry in Border Encounters: The Reception of Undocumented Migrants on a Greek Border Island Jutta Lauth Bacas Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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