Borderlands [ ethnographic approaches to security, power, and identity

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Donnan, Hastings (Author), Wilson, Thomas M. , 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America , c2010
Subjects:
Border security > Environmental aspects > Case studies
Border security > Social aspects > Case studies
Borderlands > Case studies
Ethnology > Research > Case studies
Intercultural communication > Case studies
Mexican-American Border Region > Case studies
Online Access:IG Publishing
Table of Contents:
  • 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'

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