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Book SynopsisBorderlands are often seen as zones of instability, uncertainty, marginality, and danger. Yet, they increasingly attract the attention of ethnographers as a unique lens through which to view the intersections of the national, transnational, and global forces that shape the securities and insecurities of our globalizing age. The contributors to this volume examine how different kinds of (in)security manifest and interconnect at state borders, encompassing the personal and the political, the social and the economic, in ways that reinforce or undermine the identities of those whose lives these borders frame. Drawing upon case studies from the Southern Cone, the U.S.-Mexico border, and borders in Greece, Ireland, and southeast Asia, the authors show that borders raise questions of security not just for those who live and cross them, including ethnographers, but also for the sustainability of the physical environments and wildlife disturbed by the passage, movement, and containment borders
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Contributors Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Ethnography, security, and the 'frontier effect' in borderlands Chapter 4 Chapter 2: US-Mexico border cultures and the challenge of asymmetrical interpenetration Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Security and ethnography on the Triple Frontier of the Southern Cone Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Researching the border's economic underworld: The 'fayuca hormiga' in the US-Mexico borderlands Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Symbols of security and contest along the Irish border Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Borderland tactics: Cross-border marriage in the highlands of Borneo Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Fieldwork on the border: Ethnographic engagements in south-eastern Europe Chapter 10 Chapter 8: Gating ecology in a gated globe: Environmental aspects of 'securing our borders' Chapter 11 Index
