Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century: Understanding Borders

Gabriel Popescu

ISBN 10: 0742556212 / ISBN 13: 9780742556218

Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century: Understanding Borders
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742556212
• ISBN 13: 9780742556218
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 1044 grams

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Synopsis

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 incorporates a range of disciplinary perspectives, including geography, international relations, sociology, history, security studies, and anthropology. Popescu explores recent world events, discussing how current issues such as migration, terrorism, global warming, pandemics, the 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.

About the Author

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