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1 online resource (viii, 150 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter 1: Ethnography, security and the 'frontier effect' in borderlands; Chapter 2: US-Mexico border cultures and the challenge of asymmetrical interpenetration; Chapter 3: Security and ethnography on the Triple Frontier of the Southern Cone; Chapter 4: Researching the border's economic underworld: The 'fayuca hormiga' in the US-Mexico borderlands; Chapter 5: Symbols of security and contest along the Irish border; Chapter 6: Borderland tactics: Cross-border marriage in the highlands of Borneo. |
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Chapter 7: Fieldwork on the border: Ethnographic engagements in south-eastern EuropeChapter 8: Gating ecology in a gated globe: Environmental aspects of 'securing our borders'; Index. |
| Summary |
This book examines how different kinds of security and insecurity manifest and interconnect at state borders, encompassing the personal and the political, the social and the economic, in ways that reinforce or undermine the identities of those whose lives these borders frame. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Borderlands -- Case studies.
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Borderlands. |
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Case studies.
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| Subject |
Intercultural communication -- Case studies.
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Intercultural communication. |
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Ethnology -- Research -- Case studies.
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Ethnology -- Research. |
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Border security -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Border security -- Social aspects. |
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Border security. |
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Border security -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies.
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Mexican-American Border Region -- Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Donnan, Hastings.
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Wilson, Thomas M., 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Borderlands. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2010 9780761851233 (DLC) 2010924577 (OCoLC)567195352 |
| ISBN |
9780761851240 (electronic book) |
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0761851240 (electronic book) |
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9780761851233 |
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0761851232 |
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