B/ordering Space

Dr Henk van Houtum, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Dr Olivier Kramsch is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Dr Wolfgang Zierhofer, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow for the 'Programm Mensch Gesellschaft Umwelt' at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

’Drawing and marking spatial boundaries is one of the fundamental ways in which human societies organize themselves. Finally with this volume we have a critical synthesis between empirical studies of political boundaries and theoretical reflection on the various social practices of bordering. I expect this book to have a significant impact on future research and in the classroom.’ John Agnew, UCLA, USA. ’Nailing the myth of a borderless worldonce and for all, this fascinating mix of authors take the geographer's traditional concern for borders into a myriad of new and subtle directions. The message that borders are inherent to contemporary globalization practices and discourses needs to be heard beyond geography. This book is essential reading for all scholars of globalization.’ Professor Peter Taylor, Ghent University, Belgium.

• Contents: Prologue: B/ordering Space, Henk van Houtum, Olivier Kramsch and Wolfgang Zierhofer. B/ordering Practices In A 'Borderless' World: The changing discourses on political boundaries: mapping the backgrounds, contexts and contents, Anssi Paasi; Borders Unbound: globalization, regionalism and the postmetropolitan transition, Edward W. Soja; Regions and everyday regionalizations: from a space-centred towards an action-centered human geography, Benno Werlen; Shaky borders? transnational migrants as strategic actors, David Ley. Strategic Constructions: Claiming and Fixing Places: Regionalization in Europe: stories, institutions and boundaries, Arnoud Lagendijk; On paradigms and doctrines: the 'Euroregio of Salzburg' as a bordered space, Peter Weichhart; Borderline communities: Canadian single industry towns, Staples, and Harold Innis, Trevor Barnes; Splintering Palestine, Derek Gregory. Situating And Extending Spaces Of Orientation: Scientists without borders: or moments of insight, spaces of recognition: situated practice, science, and the navigation of urban everyday life, Allan Pred; Debordering subjectivity, Huib Ernste; Friedrich Ratzel's spatial turn: identities of disciplinary space and its borders between the anthropo- and political geography of Germany and the United States, Wolfgang Natter. Re-Imagining Bounded Routes and Discourses: The poetry of boundaries: reflections from the Portuguese-Spanish borderlands, James D. Sidaway; Bor(der)ing stories: spaces of absence along the Dutch-German border, Anke Strüver; 'Röstigraben': a discourse on national identity in Switzerland, Wolfgang Zierhofer; On the border with Deleuze and Guattari, Keith Woodward and John Paul Jones III; Index.