Between frontiers : nation and identity in a Southeast Asian borderland / Noboru Ishikawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ishikawa, Noboru, author.

Series:

Research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 122.

Ohio University research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; number 122

Standardized Title:

Kyōkai no shakaishi. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries.

Nation-state.

Nationalism--Malaysia--Sarawak.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press ; Singapore : NUS Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A staple of postwar academic writing, "nationalism" is a contentious and often unanalyzed abstraction. It is generally treated as something "imagined," "fashioned," and "disseminated,"as an idea located in the mind, in printed matter, on maps, in symbols such as flags and anthems, and in collective memory. Between Frontiers restores the nation to the social field from which it hasbeen abstracted by looking at how the concept shapes the existenceof people in border zones, where they live between nations. Noboru Ishikawa grounds his discussion of border zone

Contents:

The geo-body in transition

Inscribing a boundary at the imperial margin

Contraband and konfrontasi

On the periphery

The genesis of ethnic displacement

Border location work

Osmotic pressure of the nation-state

Borderland development.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780896804760

0896804763

OCLC:

884646618