Violence on the Margins [electronic resource] : States, Conflict, and Borderlands /
Raeymaekers, Timothy.author.
Korf, B.editor.
This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I: Introducing a Borderland Perspective""; ""1 Introduction: Border, Frontier and the Geography of Rule at the Margins of the State""; ""2 Geographies of Violence and Sovereignty: The African Frontier Revisited""; ""3 Centering Borders and Borderlands: The Evidence from Africa""; ""Part II: The Borderâ€?s Rough Terrain: Violence, Security and the Border""; ""4 Treading a Fine Line: State-Making and Conflict within Eastern Burma""
""5 Navigating the Urban â€œIn-Between Spaceâ€?: Local Livelihood and Identity Strategies in Exploiting the Goma/Gisenyi Border""""Part III: The Border as Frontier: States, Sovereignty and Identity""; ""6 Dangerous Divisions: Peace-Building in the Borderlands of Post-Soviet Central Asia""; ""7 State-Making and the Suspension of Law in Indiaâ€?s Northeast: The Place of Exception in the Assamâ€?Nagaland Border Dispute""; ""Part IV: â€œBringing the State Back Inâ€?: Borders, War Economies and Peace Economies""
""8 Get It While You Can: Governance between Wars in the Ugandaâ€?South Sudan Borderland""""9 When Civil Wars Hibernate in Borderlands: The Challenges of the Casamanceâ€?s â€œForgotten Civil Warâ€? to Cross-Border Peace and Security""; ""Epilogue: The View from the Border""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""
Includes index.
This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.
International relations.
Anthropology.
Africa-Politics and government.
Asia-Politics and government.
Political sociology.
Ethnology-Africa.
International Relations.
Anthropology.
African Politics.
Asian Politics.
Political Sociology.
African Culture.