1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457665303321

Titolo

Boundaries and belonging : states and societies in the struggle to shape identities and local practices / / edited by Joel S. Migdal [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14991-6

1-280-47798-9

0-511-19540-0

0-511-19606-7

0-511-19402-1

0-511-32716-1

0-511-51030-6

0-511-19476-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 363 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

320.1/2

Soggetti

Boundaries

Allegiance

Group identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mental maps and virtual checkpoints: struggles to construct and maintain state and social boundaries / Joel S. Migdal -- Do states always favor stasis? The changing status of tribes in the Ottoman Empire / Reşat Kabasa -- The permeable boundaries of Ottoman Jewry / Sarah Abrevaya Stein -- "Dangerous populations": state territoriality and the constitution of national minorities / Adriana Kemp -- Making Myanmars: language, territory, and belonging in post-socialist Burma / Mary P. Callahan -- Institutionalizing virtual Kurdistan West: transnational networks and ethnic contention in international affairs / Nicole F. Watts -- Challenging boundaries and belongings: "mixed blood" allotment disputes at the turn of the twentieth century / Lauren Basson -- Belonging and not: Rossland, British Columbia, during the



great war / Kenneth G. Lawson -- Boundaries and belonging in conditions of extreme politicization: the Chinese state in private and public spaces, 1949-1968 / Neil J. Diamant -- Gender and the reproduction and maintenance of group boundaries: why the "secular" state matters to religious authorities in Israel / Patricia J. Woods -- Passports into credit cards: on the borders and spaces of neoliberal citizenship / Matthew Sparke -- Contested boundaries: citizens, states, and supranational belonging in the European Union / Lisa Conant -- Boundaries of the nation-state and the lure of the Islamic community in Turkey / Yeşim Arat.

Sommario/riassunto

This interdisciplinary volume maintains the importance of a spatial understanding of society and history, but suggests a way of conceiving of borders and space that goes beyond a school map of states. Its subject is the struggle among differing spatial logics, or mental maps. It is concerned with the meaning that state borders hold for people, but recognizes that such meaning varies and is contested by other social formations. To what degree do state borders encase the mechanisms that make the decisive rules governing people's lives and to what extent do they give way to other rulemakers? To what extent do states circumscribe the communities to which people feel attached and to what extent do they intersect with other communities of belonging? These essays home in on the struggles and conflicting demands on people, given that state borders are not automatically pre-eminent and that other spatial logics demand attention.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910160684003321

Autore

Phillips Stacy Ray

Titolo

Casey's Surprise

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liquid Silver Books

ISBN

1-62210-088-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Soggetti

Romance fiction

Family secrets

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

When a small town Alaskan girl comes home to a mysterious death and the gorgeous hunk next door, cold nights sizzle and intrigue lurks around every corner! Stacy Ray Phillips presents her suspense-filled romance, Casey's Surprise, Book 1 of her new series, Burnt Bridge, Alaska.After years of traveling, Casey returns to the isolated Alaskan town she left behind to unravel the mystery behind her Aunt Bevvy's death. Surprises abound, but the biggest revelation of all is Colin, the boy next door.Colin has loved Casey forever, and now he finally has her attention. He's a settle-down kind of guy, and Casey is the woman he's been waiting for all these years.Can Casey figure out what happened to her aunt? Will she realize that the boy next door has grown into the man she never knew she'd been looking for, or will her wanderlust carry her far from home once again?Content Notes: Spicy, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary