Border porosities : movements of people, objects, and ideas in the Southern Balkans / Rozita Dimova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dimova, Rozita, author.

Series:

Rethinking borders (Manchester, England)

Rethinking borders

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries--Anthropological aspects--Greece--Case studies.

Boundaries.

Boundaries--Anthropological aspects--North Macedonia--Case studies.

Borderlands--Greece--Case studies.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--North Macedonia--Case studies.

Greece--Boundaries--North Macedonia.

Greece.

North Macedonia--Boundaries--Greece.

North Macedonia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 167 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Summary:

By drawing on geology's approaches to studying porosity, the book takes an innovative approach arguing that similarly to rocks and minerals that only appear solid and impermeable, seemingly impenetrable borders are inevitably traversed by different forms of passage.

Contents:

Front matter

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction: the name dispute and the Prespa Agreement

Railway porosity across the border: from Ottoman railway lines to contemporary migrant transportation

Desirous borders and consumer porosities: beauty, entertainment, and gambling in the EU periphery

The sedimentary porosity of tourism, ownership, and child refugees

Porosity of environmental activism and transnational mining companies: struggles against open-pit mines on the border

Tidal porosity: displaced borders in Skopje and the Colorful Revolution

Conclusion: porous trails at the border

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 25, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526166432

1526166437

9781526140647

1526140640

OCLC:

1273666928