Borders and borderlands in contemporary culture / edited by Aoileann Ni Eigeartaigh and David Getty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ní Éigeartaigh, Aoileann.

Getty, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human territoriality.

Boundaries--Social aspects.

Boundaries.

Borderlands--Social aspects.

Borderlands.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is entirely appropriate that this book should be produced in Dundalk. Located on the Northern rim of the Irish Pale, this town has straddled a border for centuries. Over the past thirty years, it has come to be closely identified Other violent republicanism both by the Unionist Community in Northern Ireland and by Constitutional Nationalists in the South. Against such a hostile background academics attached to the Institute of Technology there have bravely confronted and interrogated th...

Contents:

Preston goes to Nablus / Michael Lavalette

The last Cold War remnant of the Iron Curtain? : an exploration of the dismantling of the Italo-Slovene border fence in 2004 / Chiara Tedaldi

War in Africa : space, place and the Eritrea-Ethiopia war of 1998-200 / David O'Kane

Projections-transmissions between spatial and mental borders / Carsten Yndigegn

The Irish are not Black : ascribed ethnicity and the struggle for recognition / Kevin Howard

Una herida que no cicatriza : the border as interethnic space in Mexican, America, and Chicano cinema / Catherine Leen

My prison-cell, my fortress : imagining borders in contemporary culture / Aoileann Ni Eigeartaigh

The mythical underpinnings of racial boundaries : Scheibe's The curse of the mulatto / Joe Delap

Constructing borders between 'new man' and 'new lad' : discourses in British men's magazines' problem pages / Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-124) and index.

ISBN:

1-4438-0268-9

9786612042874

1-282-04287-4

OCLC:

815769520