Borders and borderlands in contemporary culture /

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Focuses on border as limitation. This work describes the construction of the apartheid wall. It shows how spatial borders gradually become mental borders such that, as visual borders disappear, new invisible borders appear. It also explores the dualism of borders.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Getty, David (Author)
Other Authors: Ní Éigeartaigh, Aoileann (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Human territoriality.
Boundaries > Social aspects.
Borderlands > Social aspects.
Territorialité humaine.
Frontières > Aspect social.
Régions frontalières > Aspect social.
territoriality.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Ethnische Gruppe
Grenze
Kulturstandard
Landesgrenze
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preston goes to Nablus / Michael Lavalette
  • The last Cold War remnant of the Iron Curtain? : an exploration of the dismantling of the Italo-Slovene border fence in 2004 / Chiara Tedaldi
  • War in Africa : space, place and the Eritrea-Ethiopia war of 1998-200 / David O'Kane
  • Projections-transmissions between spatial and mental borders / Carsten Yndigegn
  • The Irish are not Black : ascribed ethnicity and the struggle for recognition / Kevin Howard
  • Una herida que no cicatriza : the border as interethnic space in Mexican, America, and Chicano cinema / Catherine Leen
  • My prison-cell, my fortress : imagining borders in contemporary culture / Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh
  • The mythical underpinnings of racial boundaries : Scheibe's The curse of the mulatto / Joe Delap
  • Constructing borders between 'new man' and 'new lad' : discourses in British men's magazines' problem pages / Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo.

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