Synopses & Reviews
Review
'Highly recommended.' Political Studies
Table of Contents
1. Nation, state and identity at international borders; 2. State formation and national identity in the Catalan borderland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; 3. A western perspective on an eastern intepretation of where north meets south: Pyrenean borderland cultures; 4. The 'new immigration' and the transformation of the European/Africa frontier; 5. Transnationalism in California and Mexico at the end of empire; 6. National identity on the frontier: Palestinians in the Israeli educational system; 7. 'Grenzregime': the Wall and its aftermath; 8. Transcending the state? Gender and borderline constructions of citizenship in Zimbabwe; 9. Borders, boundaries, tradition and state on the Malaysian periphery; 10. Markets, morality and modernity in north-east Turkey; 11. Imagining 'the south': hybridity, heterotropies and Arabesk on the Turkish Syrian border.