Border Identities: Nation and State at International Frontiers

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511607813

This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. The ten anthropological case studies collected here describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, and bring out the importance of boundary politics, and the diverse forms that it may take. The frontier itself may be of great symbolic importance; in other cases the symbolism lies rather in the disappearance of the traditional border. A frontier may be above all a barrier against immigration, or the front line between hostile armies. It may reinforce distinctive identities on each side of it, or the frontier may be disputed because it cuts across national identities. Drawing on anthropological perspectives, the book explores how cultural landscapes intersect with political boundaries, and ways in which state power informs cultural identity.

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Source: Political Studies

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List of maps
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Acknowledgements
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1 - Nation, state and identity at international borders
pp 1-30
- By Thomas M. Wilson, Hastings Donnan
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2 - State formation and national identity in the Catalan borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
pp 31-61
- By Peter Sahlins
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3 - A western perspective on an eastern interpretation of where north meets south: Pyrenean borderland cultures
pp 62-95
- By William A. Douglass
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4 - The ‘new immigration’ and the transformation of the European-African frontier
pp 96-116
- By Henk Driessen
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5 - Transnationalism in California and Mexico at the end of empire
pp 117-141
- By Michael Kearney
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6 - National identity on the frontier: Palestinians in the Israeli education system
pp 142-161
- By Dan Rabinowitz
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7 - Grenzregime (border regime): the Wall and its aftermath
pp 162-190
- By John Borneman
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8 - Transcending the state? gender and borderline constructions of citizenship in Zimbabwe
pp 191-214
- By A. P. Cheater
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9 - Borders, boundaries, tradition and state on the Malaysian periphery
pp 215-236
- By Janet Carsten
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10 - Markets, morality and modernity in north-east Turkey
pp 237-262
- By Chris Hann, Ildikó Bellér-Hann
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11 - Imagining ‘the South’: hybridity, heterotopias and Arabesk on the Turkish–Syrian border
pp 263-288
- By Martin Stokes
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Author index
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Subject index
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of maps
pp ix-ix

List of contributors
pp x-xi

Acknowledgements
pp xii-xii

1 - Nation, state and identity at international borders
pp 1-30

2 - State formation and national identity in the Catalan borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
pp 31-61

3 - A western perspective on an eastern interpretation of where north meets south: Pyrenean borderland cultures
pp 62-95

4 - The ‘new immigration’ and the transformation of the European-African frontier
pp 96-116

5 - Transnationalism in California and Mexico at the end of empire
pp 117-141

6 - National identity on the frontier: Palestinians in the Israeli education system
pp 142-161

7 - Grenzregime (border regime): the Wall and its aftermath
pp 162-190

8 - Transcending the state? gender and borderline constructions of citizenship in Zimbabwe
pp 191-214

9 - Borders, boundaries, tradition and state on the Malaysian periphery
pp 215-236

10 - Markets, morality and modernity in north-east Turkey
pp 237-262

11 - Imagining ‘the South’: hybridity, heterotopias and Arabesk on the Turkish–Syrian border
pp 263-288

Author index
pp 289-292

Subject index
pp 293-301

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