Border Studies

Edited by Thomas M. Wilson, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA

'Tom Wilson has forged an impressive collection on borders and borderlands that emphasizes their fascinating complexity. Seasoned border studies scholars are at the top of their game here, augmented by the new wave of academics writing on the subject. History is omnipresent but the emphasis is on the contemporary world of borders and their multifarious crises. A must-read for those interested in borders, bordering, debordering and rebordering.'

• ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION1 The multilectics and multiplicities of borders and border studies 2Thomas M. WilsonPART II APPROACHES TO MULTIPLE BORDERINGS2 Political imaginaries of border security 26Nick Vaughan-Williams3 Geographies of borders and bordering 47Anssi Paasi4 From bordering to border thinking: interdisciplinarity and the significance of cognition in border studies 68James W. Scott5 Borders have never been linear: moving beyond the borderline map trap in political cartography 85Rodrigo Bueno Lacy and Henk van Houtum6 Anthropology and border studies: from critique to contingency 106Sarah GreenPART III APPROACHES TO PAST AND PRESENT OTHERING7 Borderlands and bordered lands: historical approaches to border studies 125C. Patterson Giersch re democratic life in the central US–Mexico border commons 28916 Rethinking the border in times of crisis 3088 Border studies and contemporary history from a European perspective 149 Birte Wassenberg 9 Stories of legal borders: on statecraft, law and violence 167 Tugba Basaran 10 The economic approach to political borders 183 Enrico Spolaore 11 Borders and tourism: dynamic relations, mobilities and the touristic other 203 Dallen J. Timothy PART IV APPROACHES TO THE TIMES AND PLACES OF CRISIS 12 Living through the amplification of differentiation: borders and the international in the twenty-first century 225 Benjamin J. Muller 13 The ‘living border’: critical border studies in a time of climate change 241 Hilary Cunningham and Stephen Bede Scharper 14 A history of borders and disease, written with the vectors 267 Alan Smart and Josephine Smart 15 Multi-disciplinary perspectives on politics in borderlands: toward a fairer, more democratic life in the central US– Mexico border commons 291 Kathleen Staudt 16 Rethinking the border in times of crisis 310 Ruben Andersson