Borderscapes : hidden geographies and politics at territory's edge /
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| Imprint: | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007. |
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| Description: | xl, 330 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Borderlines ; v. 29 Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 29. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6674698 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr
- Knowledge, power, surveillance
- Detention of foreigners, states of exception, and the social practices of control of the banopticon / Didier Bigo
- Struggling with (il)legality: the indeterminate functioning of Malaysia's borders for asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless persons / Alice M. Nah
- The foreigner in the security continuum: judicial resistance in the United Kingdom / Elspeth Guild
- Ambivalent categories: hill tribes and illegal migrants in Thailand / Mika Toyota
- Borderpanic: representing migrants and borders
- Danger happens at the border / Emma Haddad
- Violence, subversion, and creativity in the Thai-Malaysian borderland / Alexander Horstmann
- Rethinking borderscapes: mapping hidden geographies
- The poetry of boundaries / James D. Sidaway
- The sites of the Sino-Burmese and Thai-Burmese boundaries: transpositions between the conceptual and life worlds / Karin Dean
- A Pacific zone? (In)security, sovereignty, and stories of the Pacific borderscape / Suvendrini Perera
- Rethinking borderscapes: the new political
- "Temporary shelter areas" and the paradox of perceptibility: imperceptible naked-Karens in the Thai-Burmese border zones / Decha Tangseefa
- Locating political space through time: asylum and excision in Australia / Prem Kumar Rajaram
- Border's capture: insurrectional politics, border-crossing humans, and the new political / Nevzat Soguk
- Contributors
- Index.
