This book presents the experiences of eleven European countries in the field of territorial reforms. Based on case-studies that outline the basic features of the politics of territorial choice in the respective countries the focus is on national policies politics and... Lees meer.

Contested Border Geographies is een boek van Richard Schofield... Lees meer.

Drawing on insights from theoretical engagements with borders and subalternity Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan suggests new frameworks for understanding religious boundaries in South Asia. It looks at the ways in which social categories and structures constitute... Lees meer.

From Major League Baseball to English soccer s Premier League all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters. The international migration of sporting talent and... Lees meer.

This monograph explores the concept of mobility in Zimbabwean works of fiction published in English between the introduction of the controversial Fast Track Land Reform Programme and the end of the Mugabe era. It will be of interest to researchers of African Literature... Lees meer.

How is it that walls borders boundaries-and their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusion-engender their very opposite. This edited volume explores the crossings permeations and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples a... Lees meer.

The papers in this volume examine the variations of cultural expression within Greater Tibet a conceptual framework that considers Tibeto-Burman speakers and their mutual affiliations as a group different from the larger nation-states in which they now find themselves... Lees meer.

Borders Boundaries Frontiers presents a short and accessible introduction to border studies from an anthropological perspective. International borders are among the most significant political inventions of modern times. The borders between national states are not... Lees meer.

In the aftermath of the Maastricht Treaty Europe saw tremendous integration but the last few years have seen a new power game between federalist and confederalist actors. Although the Lisbon Treaty increased the power of the federalist-inclined European Parliament th... Lees meer.

A non-Eurocentric interdisciplinary collection arguing that boundaries and borders are best understood as overlapping categories. At a glance borders and boundaries may seem synonymous. But in the real geopolitical world they coexist as distinct albeit over... Lees meer.

Redraws old definitions of what it means to be religious and Asian American. Asian American Religions brings together some of the most current research on Asian American religions from a social science perspective. The volume focuses on religion in Asian American co... Lees meer.

The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse immigrant populations in the United States. The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as... Lees meer.

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century the forces of globalisation continue to transform both the spaces around international borders and the social processes cultural practices economies and political dynamics within and between these spaces. The geograph... Lees meer.

This book explores and challenges the concept and experience of liminality as applied to critical perspectives in the study of events. It will be of interest to researchers in event studies social and discursive psychology cultural and political sociology and social... Lees meer.

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