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Violence on the Margins : States, Conflict, and Borderlands / by Timothy Raeymaekers ; edited by B. Korf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raeymaekers, Timothy, Author.
- Series:
- Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies, 2946-2827
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- Anthropology.
- Africa--Politics and government.
- Africa.
- Asia--Politics and government.
- Asia.
- Political sociology.
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- International Relations.
- African Politics.
- Asian Politics.
- Political Sociology.
- African Culture.
- Local Subjects:
- International Relations.
- Anthropology.
- African Politics.
- Asian Politics.
- Political Sociology.
- African Culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I: Introducing a Borderland Perspective""; ""1 Introduction: Border, Frontier and the Geography of Rule at the Margins of the State""; ""2 Geographies of Violence and Sovereignty: The African Frontier Revisited""; ""3 Centering Borders and Borderlands: The Evidence from Africa""; ""Part II: The Border�s Rough Terrain: Violence, Security and the Border""; ""4 Treading a Fine Line: State-Making and Conflict within Eastern Burma""
- ""5 Navigating the Urban “In-Between Space�: Local Livelihood and Identity Strategies in Exploiting the Goma/Gisenyi Border""""Part III: The Border as Frontier: States, Sovereignty and Identity""; ""6 Dangerous Divisions: Peace-Building in the Borderlands of Post-Soviet Central Asia""; ""7 State-Making and the Suspension of Law in India�s Northeast: The Place of Exception in the Assam�Nagaland Border Dispute""; ""Part IV: “Bringing the State Back In�: Borders, War Economies and Peace Economies""
- ""8 Get It While You Can: Governance between Wars in the Uganda�South Sudan Borderland""""9 When Civil Wars Hibernate in Borderlands: The Challenges of the Casamance�s “Forgotten Civil War� to Cross-Border Peace and Security""; ""Epilogue: The View from the Border""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349462490
- 1349462497
- 9781137333995
- 1137333995
- OCLC:
- 856902342
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