Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State - Brossura

Donnan, Hastings; Wilson, Thomas M.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1859732461 ISBN 13: 9781859732465

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1999

Riassunto

Borders are where wars start, as Primo Levi once wrote. But they are also bridges - that is, sites for ongoing cultural exchange. Anyone studying how nations and states maintain distinct identities while adapting to new ideas and experiences knows that borders provide particularly revealing windows for the analysis of 'self' and 'other'. In representing invisible demarcations between nations and peoples who may have much or very little in common, borders exert a powerful influence and define how people think as well as what they do. Without borders, whether physical or symbolic, nationalism could not exist, nor could borders exist without nationalism. Surprisingly, there have been very few systematic or concerted efforts to review the experiences of nation and state at the local level of borders. Drawing on examples from the US and Mexico, Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine, Spain and Morocco, as well as various parts of Southeast Asia and Africa, this timely book offers a comparative perspective on culture at state boundaries. The authors examine the role of the state, ethnicity, transnationalism, border symbols, rituals and identity in an effort to understand how nationalism informs attitudes and behaviour at local, national and international levels. Soldiers, customs agents, smugglers, tourists, athletes, shoppers, and prostitutes all provide telling insights into the power relations of everyday life and what these relations say about borders. This overview of the importance of borders to the construction of identity and culture will be an essential text for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, geography, nationalism and immigration studies.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Hastings Donnan, Queen's University of Belfast.
Thomas M. Wilson, Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1859732461
• ISBN 13: 9781859732465
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 204