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Borderlands
Ethnographic Approaches to Security, Power, and Identity
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2012
Summary
Borderlands are often seen as zones of instability, uncertainty, marginality, 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 borders 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 raise 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.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-5123-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-5124-0
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
150
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
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Chapter 1: Ethnography, security and the 'frontier effect' in borderlands No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 2: US-Mexico border cultures and the challenge of asymmetrical interpenetration No access Pages 21 - 34
Chapter 3: Security and ethnography on the Triple Frontier of the Southern Cone No access Pages 35 - 52
Chapter 4: Researching the border's economic underworld: The 'fayuca hormiga' in the US-Mexico borderlands No access Pages 53 - 72
Chapter 5: Symbols of security and contest along the Irish border No access Pages 73 - 92
Chapter 6: Borderland tactics: Cross-border marriage in the highlands of Borneo No access Pages 93 - 108
Chapter 7: Fieldwork on the border: Ethnographic engagements in south-eastern Europe No access Pages 109 - 124
Chapter 8: Gating ecology in a gated globe: Environmental aspects of 'securing our borders' No access Pages 125 - 142
