Challenged Borderlands

Transcending Political and Cultural Boundaries

Vera Pavlakovich-Kochi, Barbara J. Morehouse

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781138258952
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351952842
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

In the early 1990s, borders within Europe and between the United States and Mexico began to open. The increasing flow of goods, capital, ideas and people across boundaries promised to reduce physical and cognitive distances. Simultaneously, challenges to identity have arisen within and between the European nation-states, driven not only by internal cultural and political dynamics, but also by processes of globalization. Concurrently, the US-Mexican border emerged in public consciousness as a location of new opportunities, largely due to public perception of the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This book explores some of the contradictory, yet simultaneous, processes affecting border regions. A team of leading scientists offers a wide range of perspectives on global, national, regional and local processes, and provides a useful matrix for understanding their complex, multilayered implications. Key concepts such as globalization, borders and identities are illustrated through local and regional case studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• PART I: INTRODUCTION: PERSPECTIVES ON BORDERLANDS
• PART II: BORDERS, BOUNDARIES AND BORDER SPACES
• PART III: INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL FORCES REDEFINING ‘WE’ AND ‘OTHERS’
• PART IV: LIVING WITH CHANGING BORDERS
• PART V: EPILOGUE: IMPLICATONS FOR POLICY- AND DECISION-MAKING
• Index