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Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century: Understanding Borders
This timely book explores the central role that borders play in shaping the contemporary world. Building on a discussion of border thinking and making from antiquity to the present, Gabriel Popescu applies a critical eye to 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 international 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.

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Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century: Understanding Borders
This timely book explores the central role that borders play in shaping the contemporary world. Building on a discussion of border thinking and making from antiquity to the present, Gabriel Popescu applies a critical eye to 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 international 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.

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Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century: Understanding Borders

Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century: Understanding Borders

by Gabriel Popescu
Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century: Understanding Borders

Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century: Understanding Borders

by Gabriel Popescu

Overview

This timely book explores the central role that borders play in shaping the contemporary world. Building on a discussion of border thinking and making from antiquity to the present, Gabriel Popescu applies a critical eye to 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 international 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780742556225
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 09/29/2011
Series: Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Making Sense of Borders
Chapter 2: Borders Before and During the Modern Era
Chapter 3: Borders in the Era of Globalization
Chapter 4: Producing Global Border Spaces
Chapter 5: Controlling Mobility
Chapter 6: Bridging Borders
Conclusion

What People are Saying About This

John Agnew

This is simply the best up-to-date survey of border studies I have seen. Popescu shows easy command of a wide range of sources in a number of languages. The approach and writing are such that a wide array of readers will find this book absolutely necessary for understanding how borders are being rethought and how this matters in a world of anti-immigration panics and the inability of popular ideologies to come to terms with the shifting practices and meanings of 'bordering' in the twenty-first century.

James D. Sidaway

How and why do borders endure? The business of borders and the objectives of those who seek variously to secure, manage, cross, or transcend them are illuminated in this fluent and accessible cross-disciplinary guide to borders and border studies.

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