Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century : Understanding Borders

Gabriel Popescu

ISBN 10: 0742556220 / ISBN 13: 9780742556225

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This timely book introduces readers to the central question of borders in the twenty-first century. After familiarizing readers with border thinking and making from antiquity to the present, Gabriel Popescu turns a critical eye on current concepts, processes, and contexts. Assessing the latest theoretical approaches to border studies, the author deftly incorporates a range of disciplinary perspectives, including geography, international relations, sociology, history, security studies, and anthropology. He explores recent world events, discussing how current issues such as migration, terrorism, global warming, pandemics, the international human rights regime, outsourcing, the economic crisis, supranational integration, regionalization, and digital technology relate to borders and influence our lives. Written with a clear eye and voice, this book makes a complex subject accessible to a wide readership.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780742556225

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century : Understanding Borders
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0742556220
• ISBN-13: 9780742556225
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

This timely book introduces readers to the central question of borders in the twenty-first century. After familiarizing readers with border thinking and making from antiquity to the present, Gabriel Popescu turns a critical eye on current concepts, processes, and contexts. Assessing the latest theoretical approaches to border studies, the author deftly incorporates a range of disciplinary perspectives, including geography, international relations, sociology, history, security studies, and anthropology. He explores recent world events, discussing how current issues such as migration, terrorism, global warming, pandemics, the international human rights regime, outsourcing, the economic crisis, supranational integration, regionalization, and digital technology relate to borders and influence our lives. Written with a clear eye and voice, this book makes a complex subject accessible to a wide readership.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gabriel Popescu is associate professor of geography in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, South Bend.