This book explores non-state actors that are or have been migratory, crossing borders as a matter of practice and identity. Where non-state actors have received considerable attention amongst political scientists in recent years, those that predate the statenomadshave not. States, however, tend to take nomads quite seriously both as a material and ideational threat. Through this volume, the authors rectify this by introducing nomads as a distinct topic of study. It examines why states treat nomads as a threat and it looks particularly at how nomads push back against state intrusions. Ultimately, this exciting volume introduces a new topic of study to IR theory and politics, presenting a detailed study of nomads as non-state actors.
1.Introduction: Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations.- 2.Nomads and States in Comparative Perspective.- 3.The Anti-Nomadic Bias of Political Theory.- 4.Before and After Borders: The Nomadic Challenge to Sovereign Territoriality.- 5.Standard of Civilization, Nomadism and Territoriality in Nineteenth Century International Society.- 6.Frontier Energetics: The Value of Pastoralist Border Crossings in Eastern Africa.- 7.Seeing the Nomads like a State: Sweden and the S?mi at the Turn of the Last Century.- 8.African Community-Based Conservancies: Innovative Governance for Whom?.- 9.In Limbo of Spatial Control, Rights and Recognitions: The Negev Bedouin and the State of Israel.- 10.Imperial Chinese Relations with Nomadic Groups.- 11.On Being Orang Suku Laut in the Malay World.- 12.From Gypsies to Romanies: Identity, Cultural Autonomy, Political Sovereignty and (the Search for a) Trans-territorial State.- 13.International Relations and Migration: Mobility as Norm rather than Exception.
A welcome addi?tion to our understanding of nomadic peoples. & an excellent volume that adds considerable new informalã=
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