Overview

Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally. This volume investigates, from a local, ground-up perspective, what is happening at some of these border encounters: face-to-face interactions and relations of compliance and confrontation, where people are bargaining, exchanging goods and information, and maneuvering beyond state boundaries. Anthropological case studies from a number of European borderlands shed light on the questions of how, and to what extent, the border context influences the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier.

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Author:   Jutta Lauth Bacas ,  William Kavanagh
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9781785332197

ISBN 10:   1785332198
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   01 March 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Border Encounters – Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe’s Frontiers Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh PART I: OPENING BORDERS Chapter 1. Consumer Rites: the Politics of Consumption in a Re-Unified Germany Daphne Berdahl Chapter 2. Cross-Border Relations and Regional Identity on the Polish-German Border Robert Parkin Chapter 3. Anti-Nuclear Activism at the Czech-Austrian Border Birgit Müller Chapter 4. Powerful Documents: Passports, Passages and Dilemmas of Identification on the Georgian – Turkish Border Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 5. Proximity and Asymmetry on the Portuguese – Spanish Border William Kavanagh PART II: STRENGTHENING BORDERS Chapter 6. Asymmetries of Gender and Generation on a Post-Soviet Borderland Laura Assmuth Chapter 7. ‘We are all tourists’: Enduring Social Relations and Changing Proximities and Asymmetries at the Romanian-Serbian Border in Different Mobility Regimes Cosmin Radu Chapter 8. ‘We used to be one country’: Rural Transformations, Economic Asymmetries and National Identities in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands Tatiana Zhurzhenko PART III: CROSSING FORBIDDEN BORDERS Chapter 9. Under One Roof: Six Years of Border Crossings in Cyprus Lisa Dikomitis Chapter 10. The Birth of a Border: Policing by Charity on the Italian Maritime Edge Maurizio Albahari Chapter 11. Managing Proximity and Asymmetry in Border Encounters: The Reception of Undocumented Migrants on a Greek Border Island Jutta Lauth Bacas Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

Reviews

...provides a rich and thought provoking perspective on encounters and connectivity at the borders of Europe - both internal and external. The Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland As befits anthropology, Border Encounters is rich in empirical detail. However, it is also an excellent introduction to border theory, with a helpful literature review. The theoretical framework clearly set out in the Introduction and the individual chapters do collectively illustrate why borders should be seen as constructs and as sites of asymmetrical social relationships...All in all, this is an intriguing and well-structured volume which will be of interest to students and scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. LSE Review of Books

...provides a rich and thought provoking perspective on encounters and connectivity at the borders of Europe - both internal and external. * The Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland As befits anthropology, Border Encounters is rich in empirical detail. However, it is also an excellent introduction to border theory, with a helpful literature review. The theoretical framework clearly set out in the Introduction and the individual chapters do collectively illustrate why borders should be seen as constructs and as sites of asymmetrical social relationships...All in all, this is an intriguing and well-structured volume which will be of interest to students and scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. * LSE Review of Books

Author Information

Jutta Lauth Bacas holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Zurich with a special focus on migration studies. She has held teaching positions at universities in both Switzerland and Germany and also worked as a researcher at the Academy of Athens, Greece. Co-founder of the Mediterraneanist Network of EASA, she is a member of the Advisory Board of InASEA and co-editor of issues of Ethnologia Balkanica and the Journal of Mediterranean Studies.

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