{"product_id":"borderlands-9780745696799","title":"Borderlands","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world.  But what do we know about the border places ? these liminal zones between countries and continents ? that have become the focus of so much attention and anxiety today, and what do we know about the individuals who occupy these places?   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this timely book, anthropologist Michel Agier addresses these questions and examines the character of the borderlands that emerge on the margins of nation-states. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork, he shows that borders, far from disappearing, have acquired a new kind of centrality in our societies, becoming reference points for the growing numbers of people who do not find a place in the countries they wish to reach. They have become the site for a new kind of  subject, the bord\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e�In \u003ci\u003eBorderlands\u003c\/i\u003e, Michel Agier epitomizes what makes his standing unique in contemporary research: nothing less than the creation of a whole disciplinary field, empirical and theoretical, of urgent importance for our tragic present, the general anthropology of the displaced human in its multiple figures and locations, reversing traditional assessments of mobility and settlement, identity and strangeness, borders and neighbourhoods. He provides the missing link between the cosmopolitisms of yesterday and those we need for tomorrow.� \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eÉtienne Balibar, Université de Paris X – Nanterre\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: The Migrant, the Border and the World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlocked at the border\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndifference and solidarities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorders and walls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorderlands and their inhabitants: a banal cosmopolitism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: Decentring the World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. The Elementary Forms of the Border\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe border as centre of reflection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTemporal, social and spatial dimensions of the border ritual\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommunity and locality: the border as social fact\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe sacred space in Salvador de Bahia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe symbolic construction of the border\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn anthropology of\/in the border\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFounding, naming, limiting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorderlands as uncertain places: Tocqueville at Saginaw\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterval time: carnivals and deceleration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEverything that the border is the place of\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorders and identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorder situations and liminality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. The World as ‘Problem’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWar at the borders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIs the world a problem? Cosmopolitical reality and realpolitik\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEconomic globalization and the weakening of nation-states\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLandscapes, routes and networks: the shape of the world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolence at the border: the outside of the nation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe ‘border police’, or what remains of nation-states\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe fiction of ‘national indigeneity’ and its naturalization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpulsions trace the boundary of national identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHumanitarian spaces as partial delocalization of sovereignty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalls of war\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColonial war, war on migrants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuestions about the ‘desire for walls’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Border Dwellers and Borderlands: Studies of banal cosmopolitism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe border dwellers: figures and places of relative foreignness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWandering as adventure and the border encampment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBecoming a pariah and living in a camp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour ‘métèques’, and the squat as border\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe foreigner in his labyrinth, or the tiers-instruit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeing-in-the-world on the border: a new cosmopolitan condition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn ordinary cosmopolitism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two: The Decentred Subject\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Questions of Method: Decentring Reconsidered Today\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA critical moment: the contemporary turn in anthropology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe end of the ‘Great Divide’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom ethnic group to ethnic identities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdentity-based essentialisms and ontologies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDecentring reconceived\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeyond cultural decentring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe construction of epistemological decentring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitical decentring. The question of the other-as-subject\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA contemporary and situational anthropology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWYSIWYG: what you see is what there is\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe contribution of situational anthropology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Civilization, Culture, Race: Three Explorations in Identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCivilization as hyper-border: mirrors of Africa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 1950s: ‘One civilization accused by another!’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1980s and 1990s: deconstructions, reinventions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA global and diffuse African presence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe migration of spirits: mobilities and identity-based cultures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe devil, the priest and black culture (Colombian Pacific)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tunda as urban monster (Charco Azul, Cali)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorders and temporalities of identity-based cultures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRace and racism: how can one be black?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRepublic and racial thought in France\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrazil: from ‘racial democracy’ to ‘multicultural nation’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCitizenship without identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEscaping the identity trap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Logics and Politics of the Subject\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn anthropology of the subject\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom person to individual: ethnology and sociology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom subjectification to subjects: anthropology and philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe subject in situation: an ethnographic proposal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe decentred subject: three situational analyses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe ritual subject, or the subject as duplication of self and world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe aesthetic subject, or the care of self and the subject as author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe political subject, or the subject as a demand for citizenship\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoments and politics of the other-subject\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404434284887,"sku":"9780745696799","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745696799.jpg?v=1730486452","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/borderlands-9780745696799","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}