Borderscapes : hidden geographies and politics at territory's edge / Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr, editors.
| Other author | Rajaram, Prem Kumar. |
| Other author | Grundy-Warr, Carl. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007. |
| Description | xl, 330 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Series | Borderlines ; v. 29 Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 29. ^A369066 |
| Contents | Introduction / Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr -- Knowledge, power, surveillance -- Detention of foreigners, states of exception, and the social practices of control of the banopticon / Didier Bigo -- Struggling with (il)legality: the indeterminate functioning of Malaysia's borders for asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless persons / Alice M. Nah -- The foreigner in the security continuum: judicial resistance in the United Kingdom / Elspeth Guild -- Ambivalent categories: hill tribes and illegal migrants in Thailand / Mika Toyota -- Borderpanic: representing migrants and borders -- Danger happens at the border / Emma Haddad -- Violence, subversion, and creativity in the Thai-Malaysian borderland / Alexander Horstmann -- Rethinking borderscapes: mapping hidden geographies -- The poetry of boundaries / James D. Sidaway -- The sites of the Sino-Burmese and Thai-Burmese boundaries: transpositions between the conceptual and life worlds / Karin Dean -- A Pacific zone? (In)security, sovereignty, and stories of the Pacific borderscape / Suvendrini Perera -- Rethinking borderscapes: the new political -- "Temporary shelter areas" and the paradox of perceptibility: imperceptible naked-Karens in the Thai-Burmese border zones / Decha Tangseefa -- Locating political space through time: asylum and excision in Australia / Prem Kumar Rajaram -- Border's capture: insurrectional politics, border-crossing humans, and the new political / Nevzat Soguk -- Contributors -- Index. |
| General note | Chiefly papers from a conference on security and migration held in Chiang Rai, Thailand, in December 2004. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographica references and index. |
| LCCN | 2007018940 |
| ISBN | 9780816649259 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816649251 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780816649266 (pb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 081664926X (pb : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | JV6033 .B59 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |