Border encounters
Subtitle: asymmetry and proximity at Europe's frontiers
By: edited by Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781845453961; 9781782381389
Subjects: Borderlands; Case studies; Ethnic relations; Regionalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Border encounters : asymmetry and proximity at Europe's frontiers / Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh; title: Consumer rites : the politics of consumption in a re-unified Germany / Daphne Berdahl; title: Cross-border relations and regional identity on the Polish-German border / Robert Parkin; title: The skeleton versus the little grey men: conflicting cultures of anti-nuclear protest at the Czech-Austrian border / Birgit Møller; title: Powerful documents : passports, passages and dilemmas of identification on the Georgian/Turkish border / Mathijs Pelkmans; title: Proximity and asymmetry on the Portuguese/Spanish border / William Kavanagh; title: Asymmetries of gender and generation on a post-Soviet borderland / Laura Assmuth; title: 'We are all tourists' : enduring social relations at the Romanian-Serbian border in different mobility regimes / Cosmin Radu; title: 'We used to be one country' : rural transformations, economic asymmetries and national identities in the Ukrainian-Russian borderlands / Tatiana Zhurzhenko; title: Under one roof : the changing social geography of the border in Cyprus / Lisa Dikomitis; title: The birth of a border : policing by charity on the Italian maritime edge / Maurizio Albahari; title: Managing proximity and asymmetry in border encounters : the reception of undocumented migrants on a Greek border island / Jutta Lauth Bacas.