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Border politics : social movements, collective identities, and globalization / edited by Nancy A. Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boundaries--Social aspects.
- Boundaries.
- Borderlands--Social aspects.
- Borderlands.
- Group identity.
- Collective memory.
- Social movements.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 405 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : NYU Press, [2015]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the social and political landscape. In Border Politics, borders are defined broadly to include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural boundaries and are now increasingly salient sites of struggle over social belonging and cultural and material resources. How do contemporary activists navigate and challenge these borders? What meanings do they ascribe to different social, cultural and political boundaries, and how do these meanings shape the strategies in which they engage? Edited by Nancy A. Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez, this important volume explores these questions through eleven carefully selected case studies from around the globe and across the political spectrum. By conceptualizing struggles over identity, social belonging and exclusion as extensions of border politics, the contributors capture the complex ways in which geographic, cultural, and symbolic dividing lines are blurred and transcended, but also fortified and redrawn. Border Politics offers a lens through which to understand borders as sites of diverse struggles, as well as the strategies and practices used by diverse social movements in today's globally interconnected world. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Gendered, Ethno-Nationalist Struggles and Militarization
- Politicized Identities and Belonging
- Contested Solidarities and Emerging Sites of Struggle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781479806799
- 147980679X
- Publisher Number:
- 99965698084
- 40024230744
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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