Bordering: Identity Processes between the National and Personal

by Anders Linde-Laursen

Overview

What is a border? This seemingly simple question is here answered via a multidisciplinary study of the cultural, geographical and historical existence of borders, and the way they have shaped our world. Using the Danish-Swedish border to illustrate the actions of groups and individuals engaged in bordering since the 1600s, this richly theoretical discussion highlights the complexities of political and cultural identity processes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409488767
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	11/28/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Professor Anders Linde-Laursen, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, East Michigan University, USA

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Preface, Introduction: Bordering, 1. A Border is Born, 2. An Idea of a Space, 3. Bordering Narratives, 4. Personal Bordering, 5. Bordering Paradoxes, Postscript, References, Index

Editorial Reviews

'Now, what the Scandinavian (he has lived and worked in both Denmark and Sweden) ethnologist Anders Linde-Laursen is doing in his extremely in-teresting study Bordering: Identity Processes be-tween the National and Personal is quite a stroke of genius. He uses the double concept of border/bor-dering as an Archimedean fixed point which makes it possible for him to look at questions of national and personal identity, from as it seems quite a new and fresh angle, since he places border, not identity per se, or national, personal identity, at the centre of his study'. Ethnologia Scandinavica

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