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Record Nr.

UNINA9910392751303321

Titolo

Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations : Before and After Borders / / edited by Jamie Levin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-28053-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 281 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

305.90691

305.906918

Soggetti

Security, International

Emigration and immigration

Europe—Politics and government

Comparative politics

International relations

International Security Studies

Migration

European Politics

Comparative Politics

Foreign Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations -- 2. Nomads and States in Comparative Perspective -- 3. The Anti-Nomadic Bias of Political Theory -- 4. Before and After Borders: The Nomadic Challenge to Sovereign Territoriality -- 5. Standard of Civilization, Nomadism and Territoriality in Nineteenth Century International Society -- 6. Frontier Energetics: The Value of Pastoralist Border Crossings in Eastern Africa -- 7. Seeing the Nomads like a State: Sweden and the Sámi at the Turn of the Last Century -- 8. African Community-Based Conservancies: Innovative Governance for Whom? -- 9. In Limbo of Spatial Control, Rights and Recognitions: The Negev Bedouin and the State of Israel -- 10. Imperial Chinese Relations with Nomadic Groups -- 11. On Being Orang Suku Laut in the Malay World



-- 12. From Gypsies to Romanies: Identity, Cultural Autonomy, Political Sovereignty and (the Search for a) Trans-territorial State -- 13. International Relations and Migration: Mobility as Norm rather than Exception.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores non-state actors that are or have been migratory, crossing borders as a matter of practice and identity. Where non-state actors have received considerable attention amongst political scientists in recent years, those that predate the state—nomads—have not. States, however, tend to take nomads quite seriously both as a material and ideational threat. Through this volume, the authors rectify this by introducing nomads as a distinct topic of study. It examines why states treat nomads as a threat and it looks particularly at how nomads push back against state intrusions. Ultimately, this exciting volume introduces a new topic of study to IR theory and politics, presenting a detailed study of nomads as non-state actors. Jamie Levin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada.