Border Politics in a Global Era (eBook)

Comparative Perspectives

Kathleen Staudt (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
304 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-6619-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Culled from decades of firsthand observations, this text is a cross-regional analysis of border people and borderlands of the North and post-colonial South. Focusing on themes of trade, migration, and security, Staudt highlights the importance of states, their length of time since independence, and border bureaucrats’ discretionary practices.

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Initially, research in border studies relied mainly on generalizations from cases in the US-Mexico borderlands before subsequently burgeoning in Europe. Border Politics in a Global Era seeks to expand the study further to include the post-colonial South in response to the major challenge of interdisciplinary border studies: to explore borderlands in many contexts, with and across a variety of states, including the so-called developing, post-colonial states.Culled from decades of firsthand observations of borders from around the world and written with a critical and gender lens, the text is framed with attention to history, geography, and the power of films and travelogues to represent people as "e;others."e; Professor Kathleen Staudt advances border concepts, categories, and theories to focus on trade, migration, and security highlighting the importance of states, their length of time since independence, and border bureaucrats' discretionary practices. Drawing on her Border Inequalities Database for a global perspective, Staudt calls for reducing inequalities and building institutions in the common grounds of borderlands. The book features maps and other visuals with lists of links at the close of most chapters. Broadly comparative in nature, Border Politics in a Global Era will appeal not only to students of border studies; it will also stimulate attention in comparative politics, international studies, and political geography.

Autor

Kathleen Staudt, Professor of Political Science and Endowed Professor of Western Hemispheric Trade Policy Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso, has been teaching and researching in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands for over thirty years. Among her various books, ten focus on borders, the last of which (with Zulma Méndez) is titled Courage, Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juárez: Challenges to Militarization (University of Texas Press, 2015). Staudt founded UTEP’s Center for Civic Engagement and is active in many non-governmental organizations.

Inhalt

1. Border Politics in a Global Era2. Geography, Maps, and the ‘Other’ in History”3. Global Inequalities and Local Borderlands: Laying the Conceptual Foundations”4. The Americas: An Interdependent US-Mexico Borderlands5. From Borderlessness to the Scars of Partition in Post-Colonial South Asia6. European Integration (Under Threat): Mobility in a Superstructure7. Maritime and Riverine Borders8. Securities: Environment, Safety, and Survival9. Citizenship, Migration, and People’s Movement across Borders10. Freer and Fairer Trade in Borderlands11. Borderlands in Films12. Toward Solutions in Policy Change, Institutions and Democracy: Global to Borderlands13. Conclusions: Answering Questions, Asking More while Advancing Border Theories

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 28 Illustrations including: - 15 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs; - 1 Maps; - 1 Tables; - 4 Graphs; - 7 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Border studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-6619-8 / 1442266198
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-6619-3 / 9781442266193