Dimova Border porosities

Movements of people, objects, and ideas in the southern Balkans
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4064-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

Reihe: Rethinking Borders

By drawing on geology’s approaches to studying porosity, the book takes an innovative approach arguing that similarly to rocks and minerals that only appear solid and impermeable, seemingly impenetrable borders are inevitably traversed by different forms of passage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dimova, Rozita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the name dispute and the Prespa Agreement
1 Railroad porosity across the border: from Ottoman train-lines to contemporary migrant transportation
2 Desirous borders and consumer porosities: beauty, entertainment and gambling in the EU periphery
3 Sedimented porosity of socialism: from tourism to forced displacement of the child-refugees in 1948
4 Porosity of environmental activism and transnational mining companies: struggles against open-pit mines at the border
5 Tidal porosity: the displaced border in Skopje
Conclusion: Porous trails at the border

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Über Autor(innen)

Rozita Dimova is a social anthropologist. She has served as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Associate Professor in Southeast European Studies at Ghent University, and Scientific Member at the Center for Advanced and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.