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Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century : Understanding Borders.
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 border-making concepts, processes, and contexts. Throughout,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2011.
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| Colección: | Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 border-making concepts, processes, and contexts. Throughout, he offers a balanced understanding of borders, explaining why and how interstate borders have emerged, whose interest they serve, who is involved in border making, and how border-making practices affect societies. Assessing the latest theoretical approaches to border studies, the author deftly incor. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (295 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781442213258 1442213256 1283273225 9781283273220 9786613273222 6613273228 |