Border Encounters

Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-219-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bacas, Jutta Lauth

Kavanagh, William

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Bacas, Jutta Lauth
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.

Kavanagh, William
William Kavanagh, until his sudden death in 2014, was a Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology at CEU San Pablo University and the Madrid campuses of New York University and Suffolk University. He co-founded the Mediterraneanist Network of EASA, and was on the executive committees of two Spanish anthropological associations and was a delegate on the World Council of Anthropological Associations.

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.