Routing borders between territories, discourses, and practices / edited by Eiki Berg, Henk van Houtum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berg, Eiki.

Houtum, Henk van.

Series:

Critical security series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries.

Physical Description:

x, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

1 Prologue: A Border is Not a Border. Writing and Reading Borders in Space / Eiki Berg, Henk van Houtum 1

Part I Contested Politics of Security and Belonging

2 Post-Cold War Security Borders: A Conceptual Approach / Kari Laitinen 13

3 Borders of Security in Estonia / Merje Kuus 35

4 Post-Cold War Romania: A Study in the Construction of Security and Identity / Alina Hosu 51

5 The Boundaries of Contested Identities: 'Kachin' and 'Karenni' Spaces in the Troubled Borderlands of Burma / Carl Grundy-Warr, Karin Dean 75

Part II Politicizing Nature: Negotiating Boundaries of Inclusion

6 Environmental Boundaries of Inclusion / Henrik Gutzon Larsen 99

7 Hydro-borders in South Asia: Geopolitical Imaginations and Contestations / Eva Saroch 119

Part III Imagining and (Con)textualizing Bordered Space

8 Bridging Identity and Alterity: An Apologia for Boundaries / Jevgenia Viktorova 141

9 Presenting Representations: On the Analysis of Narratives and Images Along the Dutch-German Border / Anke Struver 161

10 Gnawing at the Edges of the State: Deleuze and Guattari and Border Studies / Ulrich Best 177

Part IV Transborder and Cross-State Investigations

11 The Institutionalization of Borders in Central and Eastern Europe: A Means to What End? / Ann Kennard 193

12 Re-Imagining the 'Scalar Fix' of Transborder Governance: The Case of the Maas-Rhein Euregio / Olivier Thomas Kramsch 211

13 Stateless in South Asia: The Making of the India-Bangladesh Enclaves / Willem van Schendel 237

14 Boundary Geopolitics: Towards a Theory of Territorial Lines? / David Newman 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754630552

OCLC:

50937051