Borderlands [ ethnographic approaches to security, power, and identity

"Borderlands are often seen as zones of instability, uncertainty, marginallty, and danger. Yet, they increasingly attract the attention of ethnographers as a unique lens through which to view the intersections of the national, transnational, and global forces that shape the securities and insec...

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Main Authors: Donnan, Hastings (Author), Wilson, Thomas M. , 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America , c2010
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Online Access:IG Publishing

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505 0 |a 1. Ethnography, security and the 'frontier effect' in borderlands -- 2. US-Mexico border cultures and the challenge of asymmetrical interpenetration -- 3. Security and ethnography on the triple frontier of the southern cone -- 4. Researching the border's economic underworld : the 'fayuca hormiga' in the US-Mexico borderlands -- 5. Symbols of security and contest along the Irish border -- 6. Borderland tactics : cross-border marriage in the highlands of Borneo -- 7. Fieldwork on the border : ethnographic engagements in South-Eastern Europe -- 8. Gating ecology in a gated globe : environmental aspects of 'securing our borders' 
520 |a "Borderlands are often seen as zones of instability, uncertainty, marginallty, and danger. Yet, they increasingly attract the attention of ethnographers as a unique lens through which to view the intersections of the national, transnational, and global forces that shape the securities and insecurities of our globalizing age. The contributors to this volume examine how different kinds of (in)security manifest and interconnect at state borders, encompassing the personal and the political, the social and the economic, in ways that reinforce or undermine the identities of those whose lives these border frame. Drawing upon case studies from the Southern Cone, the U.S.-Mexico border, and borders in Greece, Ireland, and southeast Asia, the authors show that borders ralse questions of security not just for those who live and cross them, including ethnographers, but also for the sustainability of the physical environments and wildlife disturbed by the passage, movement, and containment borders generate"--Jacket. 
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