Investigates border encounters from a local, ground-up perspective. Uses anthropological case studies from European borderlands to explain the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier. Contextualizes the key terms of ‘proximity’ and ‘asymmetry’ with regard to the specific European framework of border encounters and the processes of EU enlargement in the past decade.
Investigates border encounters from a local, ground-up perspective. Uses anthropological case studies from European borderlands to explain the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier. Contextualizes the key terms of ‘proximity’ and ‘asymmetry’ with regard to the specific European framework of border encounters and the processes of EU enlargement in the past decade.
William Kavanagh, until his sudden death in 2014, was a Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology at CEU San Pablo University and the Madrid campuses of New York University and Suffolk University. He co-founded the Mediterraneanist Network of EASA, and was on the executive committees of two Spanish anthropological associations and was a delegate on the World Council of Anthropological Associations.
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Introduction: Border Encounters - Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh PART I: OPENING BORDERS Chapter 1. Consumer Rites: the Politics of Consumption in a Re-Unified Germany Daphne Berdahl Chapter 2. Cross-Border Relations and Regional Identity on the Polish-German Border Robert Parkin Chapter 3. Anti-Nuclear Activism at the Czech-Austrian Border Birgit Müller Chapter 4. Powerful Documents: Passports, Passages and Dilemmas of Identification on the Georgian - Turkish Border Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 5. Proximity and Asymmetry on the Portuguese - Spanish Border William Kavanagh PART II: STRENGTHENING BORDERS Chapter 6. Asymmetries of Gender and Generation on a Post-Soviet Borderland Laura Assmuth Chapter 7. 'We are all tourists': Enduring Social Relations and Changing Proximities and Asymmetries at the Romanian-Serbian Border in Different Mobility Regimes Cosmin Radu Chapter 8. 'We used to be one country': Rural Transformations, Economic Asymmetries and National Identities in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands Tatiana Zhurzhenko PART III: CROSSING FORBIDDEN BORDERS Chapter 9. Under One Roof: Six Years of Border Crossings in Cyprus Lisa Dikomitis Chapter 10. The Birth of a Border: Policing by Charity on the Italian Maritime Edge Maurizio Albahari Chapter 11. Managing Proximity and Asymmetry in Border Encounters: The Reception of Undocumented Migrants on a Greek Border Island Jutta Lauth Bacas Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
Introduction: Border Encounters - Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh PART I: OPENING BORDERS Chapter 1. Consumer Rites: the Politics of Consumption in a Re-Unified Germany Daphne Berdahl Chapter 2. Cross-Border Relations and Regional Identity on the Polish-German Border Robert Parkin Chapter 3. Anti-Nuclear Activism at the Czech-Austrian Border Birgit Müller Chapter 4. Powerful Documents: Passports, Passages and Dilemmas of Identification on the Georgian - Turkish Border Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 5. Proximity and Asymmetry on the Portuguese - Spanish Border William Kavanagh PART II: STRENGTHENING BORDERS Chapter 6. Asymmetries of Gender and Generation on a Post-Soviet Borderland Laura Assmuth Chapter 7. 'We are all tourists': Enduring Social Relations and Changing Proximities and Asymmetries at the Romanian-Serbian Border in Different Mobility Regimes Cosmin Radu Chapter 8. 'We used to be one country': Rural Transformations, Economic Asymmetries and National Identities in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands Tatiana Zhurzhenko PART III: CROSSING FORBIDDEN BORDERS Chapter 9. Under One Roof: Six Years of Border Crossings in Cyprus Lisa Dikomitis Chapter 10. The Birth of a Border: Policing by Charity on the Italian Maritime Edge Maurizio Albahari Chapter 11. Managing Proximity and Asymmetry in Border Encounters: The Reception of Undocumented Migrants on a Greek Border Island Jutta Lauth Bacas Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
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