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Titolo: |
Border encounters : asymmetry and proximity at Europe's frontiers / / edited by Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh
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Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
Disciplina: | 303.48/24 |
Soggetto topico: | Borderlands - Europe |
Regionalism - Europe | |
Soggetto geografico: | Europe Ethnic relations Case studies |
Classificazione: | RC 10817 |
Altri autori: |
Lauth BacasJutta <1956->
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographies and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Border encounters : asymmetry and proximity at Europe's frontiers / Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh -- Consumer rites : the politics of consumption in a re-unified Germany / Daphne Berdahl -- Cross-border relations and regional identity on the Polish-German border / Robert Parkin -- Anti-nuclear activism at the Czech-Austrian border / Birgit Møller -- Powerful documents : passports, passages and dilemmas of identification on the Georgian/Turkish border / Mathijs Pelkmans -- Proximity and asymmetry on the Portuguese/Spanish border / William Kavanagh -- Asymmetries of gender and generation on a post-Soviet borderland / Laura Assmuth -- 'We are all tourists' : enduring social relations and changing proximities and asymmetries at the Romanian-Serbian border in different mobility regimes / Cosmin Radu -- 'We used to be one country' : rural transformations, economic asymmetries and national identities in the Ukrainian-Russian borderlands / Tatiana Zhurzhenko -- Under one roof : six years of border crossings in Cyprus / Lisa Dikomitis -- The birth of a border : policing by charity on the Italian maritime edge / Maurizio Albahari -- Managing proximity and asymmetry in border encounters : the reception of undocumented migrants on a Greek border island / Jutta Lauth Bacas. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally. This volume investigates, from a local, ground-up perspective, what is happening at some of these border encounters: face-to-face interactions and relations of compliance and confrontation, where people are bargaining, exchanging goods and information, |
Titolo autorizzato: | Border encounters ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-78238-138-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910790681403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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