A Companion to Border Studies (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology): 26 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405198931 ISBN 13: 9781405198936

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

Synopsis

A Companion to Border Studies introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that include anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. * Explores how nations and cultural identities are being transformed by their dynamic, shifting borders where mobility is sometimes facilitated, other times impeded or prevented * Offers an array of international views which together form an authoritative guide for students, instructors and researchers * Reflects recent significant growth in the importance of understanding the distinctive characteristics of borders and frontiers, including cross-border cooperation, security and controls, migration and population displacements, hybridity, and transnationalism

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Review:

"Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies." (Cross-Border Review Yearbook of the European Institute, 1 September 2014)

"Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 April 2013)

From the Back Cover:

Dramatic growth in the number of international borders has coincided in recent years with greater mobility than ever before-of goods, people and ideas. As a result, interest in borders as a focus of academic study has developed into a dynamic, multi-disciplinary field, embracing perspectives from anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. Authors provide a comprehensive examination of key characteristics of borders and frontiers, including cross-border cooperation, security and controls, migration and population displacements, hybridity, and transnationalism.

Companion to Border Studies brings together these disciplines and viewpoints, through the writing of an international collection of preeminent border scholars. Drawing on research from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, the contributors argue that the future of Border Studies lies within such diverse collaborations, which approach comparatively the features of borders worldwide.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1405198931
• ISBN 13: 9781405198936
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640
• Editor: Wilson Thomas M., Donnan Hastings