Violence on the Margins : States, Conflict, and Borderlands / / by Timothy Raeymaekers ; edited by B. Korf

• Autore: Raeymaekers Timothy
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2013.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.12096
• Soggetto topico: International relations; Anthropology; Africa—Politics and government; Asia—Politics and government; Political sociology; Ethnology—Africa; International Relations; African Politics; Asian Politics; Political Sociology; African Culture
• Persona (resp. second.): KorfB
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I: Introducing a Borderland Perspective""; ""1 Introduction: Border, Frontier and the Geography of Rule at the Margins of the State""; ""2 Geographies of Violence and Sovereignty: The African Frontier Revisited""; ""3 Centering Borders and Borderlands: The Evidence from Africa""; ""Part II: The Borderâ€?s Rough Terrain: Violence, Security and the Border""; ""4 Treading a Fine Line: State-Making and Conflict within Eastern Burma"" ; ""5 Navigating the Urban “In-Between Spaceâ€?: Local Livelihood and Identity Strategies in Exploiting the Goma/Gisenyi Border""""Part III: The Border as Frontier: States, Sovereignty and Identity""; ""6 Dangerous Divisions: Peace-Building in the Borderlands of Post-Soviet Central Asia""; ""7 State-Making and the Suspension of Law in Indiaâ€?s Northeast: The Place of Exception in the Assamâ€?Nagaland Border Dispute""; ""Part IV: “Bringing the State Back Inâ€?: Borders, War Economies and Peace Economies"" ; ""8 Get It While You Can: Governance between Wars in the Ugandaâ€?South Sudan Borderland""""9 When Civil Wars Hibernate in Borderlands: The Challenges of the Casamanceâ€?s “Forgotten Civil Warâ€? to Cross-Border Peace and Security""; ""Epilogue: The View from the Border""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.
• Titolo autorizzato: Violence on the Margins
• ISBN: 1-349-46249-7; 1-137-33399-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826742703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies