Border Studies

Edited by Thomas M. Wilson ()

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Abstract: This multidisciplinary book provides a diverse overview of social science approaches to geopolitical borders, social boundaries and cultural frontiers. An array of esteemed specialists examine political imaginaries of border security and identify methodological innovations that will enhance future scholarly work in the field. They also discuss the multiplicity of borders with a view to addressing the question: how far have we come?

Keywords: Political Borders; Geopolitics; Political Geography; Legal Borders; International Relations; Globalization; Interdisciplinarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800375383
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The multilectics and multiplicities of borders and border studies

Thomas M. Wilson

Ch 2 Political imaginaries of border security

Nick Vaughan-Williams

Ch 3 Geographies of borders and bordering

Anssi Paasi

Ch 4 From bordering to border thinking: interdisciplinarity and the significance of cognition in border studies

James W. Scott

Ch 5 Borders have never been linear: moving beyond the borderline map trap in political cartography

Rodrigo Bueno Lacy and Henk van Houtum

Ch 6 Anthropology and border studies: from critique to contingency

Sarah Green

Ch 7 Borderlands and bordered lands: historical approaches to border studies 1

C. Patterson Giersch

Ch 8 Border studies and contemporary history from a European perspective

Birte Wassenberg

Ch 9 Stories of legal borders: on statecraft, law and violence

Tugba Basaran

Ch 10 The economic approach to political borders

Enrico Spolaore

Ch 11 Borders and tourism: dynamic relations, mobilities and the touristic other

Dallen J. Timothy

Ch 12 Living through the amplification of differentiation: borders and the international in the twenty-first century

Benjamin J. Muller

Ch 13 The ‘living border’: critical border studies in a time of climate change

Hilary Cunningham and Stephen Bede Scharper

Ch 14 A history of borders and disease, written with the vectors

Alan Smart and Josephine Smart

Ch 15 Multi-disciplinary perspectives on politics in borderlands: toward a fairer, more democratic life in the central US–Mexico border commons

Kathleen Staudt

Ch 16 Rethinking the border in times of crisis

Ruben Andersson

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