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Borderlands : ethnographic approaches to security, power, and identity / edited by Hastings Donnan and Thomas M. Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Border security--Environmental aspects--Case studies.
- Border security.
- Border security--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Borderlands--Case studies.
- Borderlands.
- Ethnology--Research--Case studies.
- Ethnology.
- Intercultural communication--Case studies.
- Intercultural communication.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Case studies.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (159 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines how different kinds of security and insecurity manifest and interconnect at state borders, encompassing the personal and the political, the social and the economic, in ways that reinforce or undermine the identities of those whose lives these borders frame.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter 1: Ethnography, security and the 'frontier effect' in borderlands; Chapter 2: US-Mexico border cultures and the challenge of asymmetrical interpenetration; Chapter 3: Security and ethnography on the Triple Frontier of the Southern Cone; Chapter 4: Researching the border's economic underworld: The 'fayuca hormiga' in the US-Mexico borderlands; Chapter 5: Symbols of security and contest along the Irish border; Chapter 6: Borderland tactics: Cross-border marriage in the highlands of Borneo
- Chapter 7: Fieldwork on the border: Ethnographic engagements in south-eastern EuropeChapter 8: Gating ecology in a gated globe: Environmental aspects of 'securing our borders'; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 0-7618-8133-6
- 1-283-59970-8
- 9786613912152
- 0-7618-5124-0
- OCLC:
- 855502222
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