A Companion to Border Studies introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that include anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology.
- Explores how nations and cultural identities are being transformed by their dynamic, shifting borders where mobility is sometimes facilitated, other times impeded or prevented
- Offers an array of international views which together form an authoritative guide for students, instructors and researchers
- Reflects recent significant growth in the importance of understanding the distinctive characteristics of borders and frontiers, including cross-border cooperation, security and controls, migration and population displacements, hybridity, and transnationalism
List of Figures and Table viii
Notes on Contributors ix
1 Borders and Border Studies 1
Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan
Part I Sovereignty, Territory and Governance 27
2 Partition 29
Brendan O'Leary
3 Culture Theory and the US–Mexico Border 48
Josiah McC. Heyman
4 The African Union Border Programme in European Comparative Perspective 66
Anthony I. Asiwaju
5 European Politics of Borders, Border Symbolism and Cross-Border Cooperation 83
James Wesley Scott
6 Securing Borders in Europe and North America 100
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
7 Border Regimes, the Circulation of Violence and the Neo-authoritarial3—
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