Challenged Borderlands: Transcending Political and Cultural Boundaries

ISBN-13: 9781138258952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 328 str.

Vera Pavlakovich-Kochi; Barbara J. Morehouse

Opis

Bringing together a wide range of interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives and international case studies from local and regional levels, this book explores some of the contradictory yet simultaneous processes affecting border regions along the south-east borders of the European Union and between the United States and Mexico. In doing so, it offers a useful matrix for understanding the complex, multilayered implications embedded in border/boundary redefinition processes.

Recenzje

'Borderlands are not new phenomena. With globalization, however, their significance as laboratories of transnational societal development has rapidly increased. Written by experienced borderlands scholars from North America and Europe, this book wonderfully pieces together a complex mosaic of economic, political and socio-cultural change on and around the boundaries of the nation-state.' Dr James Wesley Scott, Free University of Berlin, Germany 'Challenged Borderlands is required reading for borderlands scholars and students of international affairs. Remaking boundarylines and reconceptualizing borderlands are defining characteristics of contemporary culture and politics. The book correctly identifies supranational influences from above; and the several analyses are especially relevant as they focus upon regional and local forces from below.' Professor Edward J. Williams, University of Arizona, USA

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Perspectives on Borderlands, Barbara J. Morehouse, Vera Pavlakovich - Kochi and Doris Wastl - Walter. Borders, Boundaries and Border Spaces, Barbara J. Morehouse and Vera Pavlakovich -Kochi: Theoretical approaches to border spaces and identities, Barbara J. Morehouse; Economic forces shaping the borderlands, Norris C. Clement; Contested boundaries and troubled borderlands, Mladen Klemencic and Clive Schofield. International and National Forces Redefining 'We' and 'Others', Barbara J. Morehouse, Vera Pavlakovich - Kochi and Doris Wastl - Walter: From Iron Curtain to fortress Europe and beyond, Richard Welch; The Zagreb region at double doorsteps: implications of a redefined boundary for regional development, Vera Pavlakovich - Kochi; Renewal of cross-border cooperation along the Hungarian - Croatian border, Zoltán Hajdú; Conflict and accommodation in the Arizona-Sonora region, Pablo Wong González; Lower income, higher income: impacts of the Maquiladoras on both sides of the border, Arthur L. Silvers. Living with Changing Borders, Barbara J. Morehouse, Vera Pavlakovich - Kochi and Doris Wastl - Walter: Ruptures in the Austro-Hungarian border region, Doris Wastl - Walter and Mónika M. Váradi; Protecting diversities and nurturing commonalities in a multicultural living space, Susanne Janschitz and Andrea Ch. Kofler; Perceptions of new realities along the Slovenian-Croatian border, Ana Barbic; The Croatian-Slovenian border: the local experience, Vera Pavlakovich - Kochi and Zoran Stiperski; Transborder urban regime in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez region, Francisco Llera Pacheco; Transboundary health care and the production of space on the Arizona - Sonora border, Barbara J. Morehouse and Patricia L. Salido. Epilogue: Implications for Policy - and Decision-Making, Bruce A. Wright and Vera Pavlakovich - Kochi; Index.

O autorze

Vera Pavlakovich-Kochi, Barbara J. Morehouse