Drawing the Line: Nature, Hybridity and Politics in Transboundary Spaces - Softcover

Fall, Juliet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138619493 ISBN 13: 9781138619494

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of the spatial assumptions underpinning transboundary protected areas in Europe, at a time of surging global enthusiasm in creating and managing such areas. It explores how the reliance on the natural science approach to space within environmental planning has led to a return of exclusionary discourses, in paradoxical contrast to the stated claims of designing 'peace parks'. The book builds a much-needed link between the critical geopolitical literature on boundaries and social approaches to nature and hybridity. Drawing the Line is theoretically informed yet grounded in substantial fieldwork from sites in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and the Ukraine. It uses material from the field to build and question theoretical debates, moving beyond site-specific issues to wider patterns and trends.

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JULIET FALL University of British Columbia, Canada

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138619493
• ISBN 13: 9781138619494
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 338