Placing the Border in Everyday Life

Reece Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, USA. Corey Johnson is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

’A compelling and richly illustrated collection examining the everyday practices and impacts of bordering. If it is an exaggeration to say the border is everywhere, then the cases examined here nonetheless perceptively examine its diverse, uneven and variegated contemporary instantiations.’ Stuart Elden, University of Warwick, UK ’Border research is today one of the most vibrant interdisciplinary fields in social and cultural sciences. Instead of seeing borders as fixed lines, scholars increasingly regard them as mobile elements that may be located far away from the edges of territories. Borders are produced and reproduced by various state and non-state agents in border areas and elsewhere in societies and influence the everyday lives of individuals and social groupings in many ways. This excellent collection, written by experienced border scholars, provides the reader with some exciting and novel perspectives to understand the complexities of current border work. The collection not only includes useful concrete illustrations from various states but is also theoretically informed.’ Anssi Paasi, University of Oulu, Finland ’The study of borders has undergone a major renaissance during the past two decades. This has been partly due to the mistaken notion that the world was becoming borderless as a result of globalization and because of the collapse of the walls separating countries inside Europe. But we have also witnessed a growth in the number of walls and fences which have been constructed by states ever since the events of 9/11 as they seek to create secure spaces against the new external threats - be they terrorism or illegal migrants. Jones and Johnson's text highlights these contrasting trends and processes as they draw on diverse border experiences throughout the world, clearly showing the impact of borders at the local level and on the daily life practices of thousands of people who live nearby or who attempt to cross these borders. The book is to

• Chapter 1 Where is the Border?, Corey Johnson, Reece Jones; Theorizing the Border in Everyday Life; Chapter 2 The Vernacularization of Borders, Anthony Cooper, Chris Perkins, Chris Rumford; Chapter 3 Policing Borders, Policing Bodies, Mathew Coleman, Angela Stuesse; Border Work by Non-Traditional Actors Near the Border; Chapter 4 Locating the Border in Boundary Bay, Emma S. Norman; Chapter 5 A Basis for Bordering, Kenneth D. Madsen; Chapter 6 Whose Border? Border Talk and Discursive Governance of the Salween River-Border, Vanessa Lamb; Chapter 7 Crossing Lines, Crossed by Lines, Judith Miggelbrink; Border Work by Non-Traditional Actors Away from the Border; Chapter 8 Symbolic Bordering and the Securitization of Identity Markers in Nigeria’s Ethno-Religiously Segregated City of Jos, Yakubu Joseph, Rainer Rothfuss; Chapter 9 Border Wars, Reece Jones; Chapter 10 Latin American Borders on the Lookout, Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary; Chapter 11 “No Place Like Home”, Jennifer Turner; Chapter 12 Conclusion, Corey Johnson;