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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807644903321

Titolo

Border theory : the limits of cultural politics / / Scott Michaelsen and David E. Johnson, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8817-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MichaelsenScott

JohnsonDavid E. <1959->

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Boundaries

Boundaries in literature

Geopolitics

Political anthropology

Ethnicity

Multiculturalism

United States Boundaries Mexico

Mexico Boundaries United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Border Secrets: An Introduction; I. The Borderlands; II. Other Geographies; Afterword: Further Perspectives on Culture, Limits, and Borders; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The authors gathered in this volume examine the multiple borders that define the United States and the Americas, including the Mason-Dixon line, the U.S.-Canadian border, the shifting boundaries of urban diasporas, and the colonization and confinement of American Indians. They examine the way border studies beckons us to rethink all objects of study and intellectual disciplines as versions of a border problematic.