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<p><br /> List of Figures and Table viii</p> <p>Notes on Contributorsix</p> <p>1 Borders and Border Studies 1<b><br /> </b><i>Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan</i></p> <p><b>Part I Sovereignty, Territory and Governance 27</b></p> <p>2 Partition 29<br /> <i>Brendan O’Leary</i></p> <p>3 Culture Theory and the US–Mexico Border 48<br /> <i>Josiah McC. Heyman</i></p> <p>4 The African Union Border Programme in European Comparative Perspective 66<br /> <i>Anthony I. Asiwaju</i></p> <p>5 European Politics of Borders, Border Symbolism and Cross-Border Cooperation 83<br /> <i>James Wesley Scott</i></p> <p>6 Securing Borders in Europe and North America 100<br /> <i>Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly</i></p> <p>7 Border Regimes, the Circulation of Violence and the Neo-authoritarian Turn 119<br /> <i>John Borneman</i></p> <p><b>Part II States, Nations and Empires 137</b></p> <p>8 Borders in the New Imperialism 139<br /> <i>James Anderson</i></p> <p>9 Contested States, Frontiers and Cities 158<br /> <i>Liam O’Dowd</i></p> <p>10 The State, Hegemony and the Historical British-US Border 177<br /> <i>Allan K. McDougall and Lisa Philips</i></p> <p>11 Nations, Nationalism and “Borderization” in the Southern Cone 194<br /> <i>Alejandro Grimson</i></p> <p>12 Debordering and Rebordering the United Kingdom 214<br /> <i>Cathal McCall</i></p> <p>13 “Swarming” at the Frontiers of France, 1870–1885 230<br /> <i>Olivier Thomas Kramsch</i></p> <p>14 Borders and Conflict Resolution 249<b><br /> </b><i>David Newman</i></p> <p><b>Part III Security, Order and Disorder 267</b></p> <p><b> </b></p> <p>15 Chaos and Order along the (Former) Iron Curtain 269<br /> <i>Mathijs Pelkmans</i></p> <p>16 Border Security as Late-Capitalist “Fix” 283<br /> <i>Brenda Chalfin</i></p> <p>17 Identity, the State and Borderline Disorder 301<br /> <i>Dan Rabinowitz</i></p> <p>18 African Boundaries and the New Capitalist Frontier 318<br /> <i>Timothy Raeymaekers</i></p> <p>19 Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars in Afghanistan 332<br /> <i>Jonathan Goodhand</i></p> <p>20 Biosecurity, Quarantine and Life across the Border 354<br /> <i>Alan Smart and Josephine Smart</i></p> <p>21 Permeabilities, Ecology and Geopolitical Boundaries 371<b><br /> </b><i>Hilary Cunningham</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility 387</b></p> <p>22 Borders and the Rhythms of Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility 389<br /> <i>Pamela Ballinger</i></p> <p>23 Remapping Borders 405<br /> <i>Henk van Houtum</i></p> <p>24 From Border Policing to Internal Immigration Control in the United States 419<br /> <i>Mathew Coleman</i></p> <p>25 Labor Migration, Trafficking and Border Controls 438<br /> <i>Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons</i></p> <p>26 Spatial Strategies for Rebordering Human Migration at Sea 455<br /> <i>Alison Mountz and Nancy Hiemstra</i></p> <p>27 “B/ordering” and Biopolitics in Central Asia 473<br /> <i>Nick Megoran</i></p> <p>28 Border, Scene and Obscene 492<br /> <i>Nicholas De Genova</i></p> <p><b>Part V Space, Performance and Practice 505</b></p> <p>29 Border Show Business and Performing States 507<br /> <i>David B. Coplan</i></p> <p>30 Performativity and the Eventfulness of Bordering Practices 522<br /> <i>Robert J. Kaiser</i></p> <p>31 Reconceptualizing the Space of the Mexico–US Borderline 538<br /> <i>Robert R. Alvarez, Jr</i></p> <p>32 Border Towns and Cities in Comparative Perspective 557<br /> <i>Paul Nugent</i></p> <p>33 A Sense of Border 573<br /> <i>Sarah Green </i></p> <p>Index 593</p>

<p>“Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies.”  (<i>Cross-Border Review Yearbook of the European Institute</i>, 1 September 2014)</p> <p>“Summing Up: Highly recommended.  Upper-division undergraduates and above.”  (<i>Choice</i>, 1 April 2013)</p>

<p><b>Thomas M. Wilson</b> is Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. From 2008-2010 he was president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. <p><b>Hastings Donnan</b> is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. <p>Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan have previously co-authored <i>The Anthropology of Ireland</i> and <i>Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State.</i>

<p><b>A Companion to Border Studies<BR> <p>“Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies.”<br><i>Cross-Border Review Yearbook of the European Institute</i> <p>“Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.”<br><i>Choice</i> <p>“This book, with its interdisciplinary team of authors from many world regions, shows the state of the art in this research field admirably.” <br><b>Ulf Hannerz,</b> <i>Stockholm University</i> <p>“This volume will be the definitive work on borders and border-related processes for years into the future. The editors have done an outstanding job of identifying key themes, and of assembling influential scholars to address these themes.<br><b>David Nugent,</b> <i>Emory University</i> <p>“This urgently needed <i>Companion</i>, edited by two leading figures of border studies, reflects past insights and showcases new directions: a must read for understanding territory, power and the state.”<br><b>Dr. Nick Vaughan-Williams,</b> <i>University of Warwick</i> <p>“This impressive collection will have a broad appeal beyond specialist border studies. Anyone with an interest in the nation-state, nationalism, ethnicity, political geography or, indeed, the whole historical project of the modern world system will want to have access to a copy. The substantive scope is global and the intellectual reach deep and wide. Simply indispensable. ”<br><b>Richard Jenkins,</b> <i>University of Sheffield</i> <p>Dramatic growth in the number of international borders has coincided in recent years with greater mobility than ever before – of goods, people and ideas. As a result, interest in borders as a focus of academic study has developed into a dynamic, multi-disciplinary field, embracing perspectives from anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. Authors provide a comprehensive examination of key characteristics of borders and frontiers, including cross-border cooperation, security and controls, migration and population displacements, hybridity, and transnationalism. <p><i>A Companion to Border Studies</i> brings together these disciplines and viewpoints, through the writing of an international collection of preeminent border scholars. Drawing on research from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, the contributors argue that the future of Border Studies lies within such diverse collaborations, which approach comparatively the features of borders worldwide.

"This book, with its interdisciplinary team of authors from many world regions, shows the state of the art in this research field admirably."<br /> —<b>Ulf Hannerz</b>, Stockholm University <p>"This volume will be the definitive work on borders and border-related processes for years into the future. The editors have done an outstanding job of identifying key themes, and of assembling influential scholars to address these themes."<br /> —<b>David Nugent</b>, Emory University</p> <p>"This urgently needed Companion, edited by two leading figures of border studies, reflects past insights and showcases new directions: a must read for understanding territory, power and the state."<br /> —<b>Dr. Nick Vaughan-Williams</b>, University of Warwick</p> <p>"This impressive collection will have a broad appeal beyond specialist border studies. Anyone with an interest in the nation-state, nationalism, ethnicity, political geography or, indeed, the whole historical project of the modern world system will want to have access to a copy. The substantive scope is global and the intellectual reach deep and wide. Simply indispensable."<br /> —<b>Richard Jenkins</b>, University of Sheffield</p>

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