Bordering and ordering the twenty-first century : understanding borders / Gabriel Popescu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Popescu, Gabriel, 1971-

Series:

Human geography in the new millennium

Human geography in the new millennium : issues and applications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands.

Boundaries.

Human geography.

Political geography.

Physical Description:

xi, 183 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2012]

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Making Sense of Borders 7

Introducing Borders 7

Thinking Borders 15

2 Borders Before and During the Modern Era 29

State Limits in Antiquity 29

Borders During the Medieval Era 32

Borders During the Modern Era 34

The Globalization of Border Lines 38

Key Moments in the Emergence of Contemporary State Borders 42

3 Borders in the Era of Globalization 47

Border Lines Meet Global Flows 47

The Structure of the International Economy 48

The Environment 53

Human Rights 56

Transnational Terrorism 59

4 Producing Global Border Spaces 67

Border-Making Dilemmas in the Twenty-first Century 67

Untangling De/reterritorialization and De/rebordering 69

The Geography of Border Spaces 77

5 Controlling Mobility 91

The Security Paradigm and Border Making 91

Embodying Borders: Techno-Conquering the Ultimate Frontier 107

6 Bridging Borders 121

The Cross-Border Cooperation Paradigm 121

Putting Space Back into Borders 122

Euroregions and the Dimensions of Border Reterritorialization 140.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780742556218

0742556212

9780742556225

0742556220

OCLC:

724673602