Holding the line : borders in a global world / / edited by Heather N. Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault
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| Titolo: |
Holding the line : borders in a global world / / edited by Heather N. Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault
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| Pubblicazione: | Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.1/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Boundaries |
| Sovereignty | |
| Globalization | |
| International relations | |
| Altri autori: |
Townsend GaultIan <1952->
NicolHeather N <1953-> (Heather Nora)
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1 The World Stage � New Opportunities and Problems""; ""1 Boundary Permeability in Perspective""; ""2 Information Geopolitics: Blurring the Lines of Sovereignty""; ""3 Law, Sovereignty, and Transnationalism: Delivering Social Goods Using a Functional Approach to Borders""; ""Part 2 Regionalism and Subregionalism in Europe""; ""4 European Borders in Transition: The Internal and External Frontiers of the European Union""; ""5 Transnational Regionalism, Strategic Geopolitics, and European Integration: The Case of the Baltic Sea Region"" |
| ""Part 3 Emerging Perspectives""""6 Transfrontier Regionalism: The European Union Perspective on Postcolonial Africa, with Special Reference to Borgu""; ""7 Trans-Maritime Boundary Cooperation in Southeast Asia: Eroding or Enhancing the Importance of International Boundaries?""; ""Part 4 RedeWning Boundaries in the Americas""; ""8 Neoliberal Caribbean Integration: The Role of the ACS in Restructuring Borderlines""; ""9 RedeWning the Nature and Functions of Boundaries: A South American Perspective""; ""Part 5 A Borderless North America?"" | |
| ""10 Transportation and Competitiveness in North America: The Cascadian and San Diego- Tijuana Border Regions""""11 ConXicting Transborder Visions and Agendas: Economic and Environmental Cascadians""; ""12 Cascadian Adventures: Shared Visions, Strategic Alliances, and Ingrained Barriers in a Transborder Region""; ""13 NAFTA and Transportation Corridor Improvement inWestern North America: Restructuring for the Twenty- First Century""; ""Part 6 Borders as Metaphors""; ""14 Permeable Borders and Boundaries in a Globalizing World: Feeling at Home amidst Global Poverty"" | |
| ""15 Technopoles and Development in a “ Borderless� World: Boundaries Erased, Boundaries Constructed""""Part 7 Rethinking Borders � Lines, Spaces, and Continua""; ""16 Complex Emergency Response Planning and Coordination: Potential GIS Applications""; ""17 GoodNeighbour Diplomacy Revisited""; ""Part 8 Conclusions""; ""18 Towards a Geopolitics of Life and Living: Where Boundaries Still Matter""; ""19 From the International to the Local in the Study and Representation of Boundaries: Theoretical and Methodological Comments""; ""Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The era of globalization has produced significant changes in the borderland issues of trade, security, economics, health, and even the environment. While borders may seem more permeable than they once were, can it really be said that we live in a "borderless world"? Holding the Line considers the changing roles of modern borders, contending that they not only remain relevant but also have become increasingly important as a site for negotiating the competing demands of globalization and national sovereignty. Exploring contemporary borders from a broad range of perspectives -- legal, environmental, sociological, economic, geopolitical, and historical -- and using examples from various regions in Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, the contributors use a holistic approach to understand the impact of boundaries on both society and space. They demonstrate that any attempt to create a methodological and conceptual framework for the understanding of boundaries must be concerned with the process of bounding, rather than simply the means through which physical lines of separation are delimited and demarcated. Borders, they conclude, are as much metaphors as they are realities. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Holding the line |
| ISBN: | 0-7748-5116-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817360203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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