Borderscaping : imaginations and practices of border making / edited by Chiara Brambilla, Jussi Laine, James W. Scott, Gianluca Bocchi.

• Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic standing. Contemporary bordering processes and practices are examined through the borderscapes lens to uncover important connections between borders as a 'challenge' to national (and EU) policies and borders as potential elements of political innovation through conceptual (re- )framings of social, political, economic and cultural spaces. The authors offer a nuanced and critical re-reading and understanding of the border not as an entity to be taken for granted, but as a place of investigation and as a resource in terms of the construction of novel (geo)political imaginations, social and spatial imaginaries and cultural images. 

Ämnesord

Boundaries  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Boundaries  -- Political aspects. (LCSH)

Borderlands  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Borderlands  -- Political aspects. (LCSH)

Gränser  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Gränser  -- politiska aspekter (sao)

Klassifikation

JA (LCC)

320.12 (DDC)

N.06 (kssb/8 (machine generated))