Studies of frontiers and borderlands become crucial to understanding the predicament of humankind as we enter the 21st century. Borders do not only divide. They also connect and serve as interfaces of multicultural contact. They provide insights into our post-modern world in which globalization, diversity, border crossing and conditions of «in-betweenness» shape our experience. Old borders are contested and eradicated, and new ones - often forcibly - appear. This book questions what is at stake in contemporary invocations of real and figurative borders. Case studies from Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia look at frontiers and borders as distinct culture types and explore the meanings of boundaries within ethnic, economic, legal, cognitive, and linguistic arenas. Border discourses and the practices of border crossing are taken into account, as are the ways in which they are inscribed into cultural imagination and memory.
Produktkennzeichnungen
Herausgeber
Michael Rösler, Tobias Wendl
ISBN-10
3631350139
ISBN-13
9783631350133
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220681946
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
Sprache
Englisch
Anzahl der Seiten
Xii Seiten
Verlag
Lang, Peter Gmbh, Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publikationsname
Frontiers And Borderlands
Besonderheiten
Ned
Autor
Michael Rösler, Tobias Wendl
Format
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsjahr
1999
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
Hörbuch
No
Item Length
20cm
Item Height
2cm
Item Width
14cm
Item Weight
329g
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