A Companion to Border Studies
About this book
- 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
Reviews
“Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies.” (Cross-Border Review Yearbook of the European Institute, 1 September 2014)
“Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 April 2013)
Author Bios
Hastings Donnan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests include the study of borders and the anthropology of walking and driving, and he has carried out fieldwork in Ireland and Pakistan. He chairs the Anthropology and Development Studies panel in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework for 2014, and is the editor of Transgressive Sex and co-author of The Anthropology of Sex.
Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan have previously co-authored The Anthropology of Ireland and Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State.