Border Encounters : : Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers / / ed. by Jutta Lauth Bacas, William Kavanagh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Albahari, Maurizio,; Assmuth, Laura,; Berdahl, Daphne,; Dikomitis, Lisa,; Kavanagh, William,; Lauth Bacas, Jutta,; Müller, Birgit,; Parkin, Robert,; Pelkmans, Mathijs,; Radu, Cosmin,; Zhurzhenko, Tatiana,
• HerausgeberIn: Bacas, Jutta Lauth,; Kavanagh, William,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)

Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally. This volume investigates, from a local, ground-up perspective, what is happening at some of these border encounters: face-to-face interactions and relations of compliance and confrontation, where people are bargaining, exchanging goods and information, and maneuvering beyond state boundaries. Anthropological case studies from a number of European borderlands shed light on the questions of how, and to what extent, the border context influences the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction Border Encounters Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe’s Frontiers -- Part I Opening Borders -- Chapter 1 Consumer Rites The Politics of Consumption in Re-unified Germany -- Chapter 2 Cross-Border Relations and Regional Identity on the Polish-German Border -- Chapter 3 The Skeleton versus the Little Grey Men Conflicting Cultures of Anti-nuclear Protest at the Czech-Austrian Border -- Chapter 4 Powerful Documents Passports, Passages and Dilemmas of Identification on the Georgian-Turkish Border -- Chapter 5 Proximity and Asymmetry on the Portuguese-Spanish Border -- Part II Strengthening Borders -- Chapter 6 Asymmetries of Gender and Generation in a Post-Soviet Borderland -- Chapter 7 ‘We Are All Tourists’ Enduring Social Relations at the Romanian-Serbian Border in Different Mobility Regimes -- Chapter 8 ‘We Used to Be One Country’ Rural Transformations, Economic Asymmetries and National Identities in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands -- Part III Crossing Forbidden Borders -- Chapter 9 Under One Roof The Changing Social Geography of the Border in Cyprus -- Chapter 10 The Birth of a Border Policing by Charity on the Italian Maritime Edge -- Chapter 11 Managing Proximity and Asymmetry in Border Encounters The Reception of Undocumented Migrants on a Greek Border Island -- Contributors -- Index