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Boundaries and belonging : states and societies in the struggle to shape identities and local practices /

"This interdisciplinary volume maintains the importance of a spatial understanding of society and history, but suggests a way of conceiving of borders and space that goes beyond a school map of states. Its subject is the struggle among differing spatial logics, or mental maps. It is concerned w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Migdal, Joel S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mental maps and virtual checkpoints: struggles to construct and maintain state and social boundaries / Joel S. Migdal
  • Do states always favor stasis? The changing status of tribes in the Ottoman Empire / Reşat Kabasa
  • The permeable boundaries of Ottoman Jewry / Sarah Abrevaya Stein
  • "Dangerous populations": state territoriality and the constitution of national minorities / Adriana Kemp
  • Making Myanmars: language, territory, and belonging in post-socialist Burma / Mary P. Callahan
  • Institutionalizing virtual Kurdistan West: transnational networks and ethnic contention in international affairs / Nicole F. Watts
  • Challenging boundaries and belongings: "mixed blood" allotment disputes at the turn of the twentieth century / Lauren Basson
  • Belonging and not: Rossland, British Columbia, during the great war / Kenneth G. Lawson
  • Boundaries and belonging in conditions of extreme politicization: the Chinese state in private and public spaces, 1949-1968 / Neil J. Diamant
  • Gender and the reproduction and maintenance of group boundaries: why the "secular" state matters to religious authorities in Israel / Patricia J. Woods
  • Passports into credit cards: on the borders and spaces of neoliberal citizenship / Matthew Sparke
  • Contested boundaries: citizens, states, and supranational belonging in the European Union / Lisa Conant
  • Boundaries of the nation-state and the lure of the Islamic community in Turkey / Yeşim Arat.