A Companion to Border Studies - (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology) by Thomas M Wilson & Hastings Donnan (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies."
Cross-Border Review Yearbook of the European Institute

"Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."
Choice

"This book, with its interdisciplinary team of authors from many world regions, shows the state of the art in this research field admirably."
Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University

"This volume will be the definitive work on borders and border-related processes for years into the future. The editors have done an outstanding job of identifying key themes, and of assembling influential scholars to address these themes.
David Nugent, Emory University

"This urgently needed Companion, edited by two leading figures of border studies, reflects past insights and showcases new directions: a must read for understanding territory, power and the state."
Dr. Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick

"This impressive collection will have a broad appeal beyond specialist border studies. Anyone with an interest in the nation-state, nationalism, ethnicity, political geography or, indeed, the whole historical project of the modern world system will want to have access to a copy. The substantive scope is global and the intellectual reach deep and wide. Simply indispensable. "
Richard Jenkins, University of Sheffield

Dramatic growth in the number of international borders has coincided in recent years with greater mobility than ever before - of goods, people and ideas. As a result, interest in borders as a focus of academic study has developed into a dynamic, multi-disciplinary field, embracing perspectives from anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. Authors provide a comprehensive examination of key characteristics of borders and frontiers, including cross-border cooperation, security and controls, migration and population displacements, hybridity, and transnationalism.

A Companion to Border Studies brings together these disciplines and viewpoints, through the writing of an international collection of preeminent border scholars. Drawing on research from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, the contributors argue that the future of Border Studies lies within such diverse collaborations, which approach comparatively the features of borders worldwide.

From the Back Cover

"Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies."
Cross-Border Review Yearbook of the European Institute

"Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."
Choice

"This book, with its interdisciplinary team of authors from many world regions, shows the state of the art in this research field admirably."
Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University

"This volume will be the definitive work on borders and border-related processes for years into the future. The editors have done an outstanding job of identifying key themes, and of assembling influential scholars to address these themes."
David Nugent, Emory University

"This urgently needed Companion, edited by two leading figures of border studies, reflects past insights and showcases new directions: a must read for understanding territory, power and the state."
Dr. Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick

"This impressive collection will have a broad appeal beyond specialist border studies. Anyone with an interest in the nation-state, nationalism, ethnicity, political geography or, indeed, the whole historical project of the modern world system will want to have access to a copy. The substantive scope is global and the intellectual reach deep and wide. Simply indispensable. "
Richard Jenkins, University of Sheffield

Dramatic growth in the number of international borders has coincided in recent years with greater mobility than ever before - of goods, people and ideas. As a result, interest in borders as a focus of academic study has developed into a dynamic, multi-disciplinary field, embracing perspectives from anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. Authors provide a comprehensive examination of key characteristics of borders and frontiers, including cross-border cooperation, security and controls, migration and population displacements, hybridity, and transnationalism.

A Companion to Border Studies brings together these disciplines and viewpoints, through the writing of an international collection of preeminent border scholars. Drawing on research from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, the contributors argue that the future of Border Studies lies within such diverse collaborations, which approach comparatively the features of borders worldwide.

Review Quotes

"Taking into consideration all aspects this book has avery important role in the professional literature of borderstudies." ("Cross-Border Review Yearbook of theEuropean Institute," 1 September 2014)

"Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-divisionundergraduates and above." ("Choice," 1 April2013)

"Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." ("Choice," 1 April 2013)

About the Author

Thomas M. Wilson is Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. From 2008-2010 he was president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

Hastings Donnan is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen's University Belfast.

Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan have previously co-authored The Anthropology of Ireland and Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State.