 | Border Culture: Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics Subjects: Communication Studies; Global Development; Geography; Politics & International Relations; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Intercultural Communication; Population & Development; International Relations; Human Geography; Anthropology; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Sociology & Social Policy; Cultural Geography; Political Geography; Social Geography; Population Geography; Regional Geography - Human Geography; Migration & Diaspora; Regionalism; Transnationalism; Cultural Studies; Kinship & Community; Political & Economic Anthropology; Regional Anthropology; Social & Cultural Anthropology; Political Sociology; Race & Ethnic Studies; This book introduces readers to the cultural imaginings of borders: the in-between spaces in which transnationalism collides with geopolitical cooperation and contestation. Recent debates about the 'refugee crisis' and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have politicized culture at and of borders like never before. Border culture is no longer culture at the margins but rather culture at the heart of geopolitics, flows and experience of the transnational world. Increasingly, culture and borders are everywhere yet nowhere. In border spaces, national narratives and counter narratives are tested and evaluated, coming up against transnational culture. This book provides an extensive and critical vision of border culture on the move, drawing on numerous examples worldwide and a growing international literature across border and cultural studies. It shows how border culture develops in the human imagination and manifests in human constructs of "nation" and "state", as well as in transnationalism. By analysing this new and expanding cultural geography of border landscapes, the book shows the way to a fresh, broader dialogue. Exploring the nature and meaning of the intersection of border and culture, this book will be an essential read for students and researchers across border studies, geopolitics, geography, and cultural studies. Victor Konrad is Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University, Canada, and formerly Director of the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine, USA, and founding Director, Canada-US Fulbright Program. Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary is Professor at Grenoble-Alpes University, France, and head of the CNRS Pacte research unit, a pluridisciplinary social sciences research center. |
