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Anthropological notions of borders as spatial, social, &/or cultural discontinuities are investigated, discussing differences in the notions of political, cultural, natural, & social boundaries. Current anthropological interpretations of cultural boundaries perceive the muddling, rather than the maintenance, of cultural discontinuities. The distinct approaches of multiculturalists & interculturalists with regard to cultural discontinuity are reviewed; it is noted that multiculturalism utilizes cultural differences as a means of resistance against hegemonic structures. Contrary to Samuel P. Huntington's (1996) argument that cultural differences have replaced political & ideological attitudes, the increase of boundary-crossing individuals has brought disparate cultures into contact. It is concluded that anthropologists should investigate the relationship between society & actual national borders, the interplay between social & cultural discontinuities, & the viability of the notion of global homogenization. 2 Photographs, 25 References. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Annette Weissenrieder: Introduction -- 1. Formation and Transformation of Space: Georg Simmel's Theory of Borders -- 2. Formation and Transformation of Space: Frontiers and Boundaries -- 3. Formation and Transformation of Space: Border and Boundaries -- 4. The heuristic value of analyzing borders -- I. Borders, Frontiers, and Boundaries of Land and City: Terms, Performances, and Ideologies -- Annette Schellenberg: "And God Separated the Light from the Darkness" (Gen 1:4) - On the Role of Borders in the Priestly Texts of the Pentateuch -- 1. Basic Separations -- 2. Spatial Borders (Holy Land -- Different Zones of Holiness) -- 3. Cultic Borders (Holy-Common -- Pure-Impure) -- 4. Anthropological Borders (Priests-Ordinary Israelites -- Israelites-Foreigners) -- 5. Summary -- Martina Kepper: What to do with borders when they become obsolete? Strategies of re-defining border concepts in the Hebrew and Greek Text of Genesis -- 1. The land and its boundaries: a very brief overview -- 2. Setting the stage: The borders of "the land" in Old Testament writings -- 3. Changing the perspective: a dynamic border concept in Genesis -- 4. Blurring the borders: Transformation through translation -- 5. Conclusion -- David L. Balch :Borders: Terms, Ideologies, and Performances. Jesus and the Samaritan / Judean Border -- 1. Introduction: Wayne Meeks' critique of Rudolf Bultmann on Christian Ethics -- 2. Jesus' Sayings and his Healing of Foreigners -- 3. Social Boundaries: Josephus and Recent Archaeology of Samaritans -- 3.1 Josephus on the Samaritans -- 3.2 Archaeological Excavations in Samaria -- 4. Rituals / Symbols of Ethnic Identity and Social / Religious Change -- 4.1 Jonathan Z. Smith on Social Conflict and Change -- 4.2 Symbols of Jewish and of Greco-Roman Cultural Identity: Circumcision and Roman Baths.

There is nothing unique about Ireland's border problems; yesterday's border conflicts are today's hotspots from the Lebanon to Yugoslavia

For almost three decades of a friendship with Betita that deepened overtime, they shared hospitality, some political projects and worries, common friends and personal disagreements, tensions over editorial work, as well as joy and political frustrations. In this memoir, the author would like to invoke the texture of their relationship, as well as political disputes that they experienced from different but intensely related sides of the US-Mexico border. He begins by saying that he was impressed by Betita's capacity to plan a project. She always carried a notebook to keep track of objectives, tasks, timing, and the steps involved in implementing a goal. He was so impressed that he tried to imitate her, but he really never could. Perhaps, he consoled himself, he was a victim of underdevelopment. Through doctrinal arguments, cultural differences, and personal tensions, they developed a close affection for Betita and Tessa, with friendship trumping politics. Adapted from the source document.

Cross-border trouble / Julie Grant -- The state of the African Union / Kerry Dimmer -- Open hypocrisy in the Commonwealth / David Olusoga -- Climate without borders / Jason Hickel -- The new refugees / Nicole Alzapiedi -- Transnational refugee nation / Peter Beaumont -- The American example / Jacob G. Hornberger -- An economic argument against open borders / Paul Ormerod -- The political effects of open borders / Anna Maria Mayda and Giovanni Peri -- Open borders are moral borders / Guy Aitchison -- The Swiss example / Vasco Pedrina -- How open borders help workers around the world / Kevin Shih -- Why open borders are essential to the global economy / Mary Jo Dudley.

Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Rather than 'world citizenship' an alternative understanding of cosmopolitanism is offered, emerging from a critique of the idea of 'openness', and founded on a different understanding of the relationship between globalization and cosmopolitanism. The core argument is that borders are 'cosmopolitan workshops' where 'cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms of sociality in the face of 'global closure'. The book outlines four cosmopolitan dimensions of borders: vernacularization, multiperspectivalism, fixity/unfixity, and connectivity.

In April, a 66-foot boat carrying some 850 migrants across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy capsized, killing almost all those on board. The tragedy catapulted migration issues to the forefront of Brussels's political agenda, as ministers grappled with how to deal with Europe's influx of asylum-seekers and migrants without documentation. The European Union's proximity to protracted conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, as well as economically depressed areas in Eastern Europe, has made member countries -- particularly Germany, Hungary, France, Italy, and Sweden -- top destinations for asylum-seekers. In the first four months of 2015, EU member states received 242,075 first-time asylum applications, an 80% increase from the same period in 2014. No one can deny that migration is a fullblown regional crisis. The question now is whether the EU has the collective will and resources to solve it. Adapted from the source document.

This new reality -- the Latinization of the United States -- is driven by forces that reach well beyond U.S. borders. It asserts itself demographically, politically, in the workplace, and in daily life. The perception that Latinos are now positioned to help bring about change in the Americas from within the United States has taken hold, sparking renewed interest and specific initiatives by hemispheric governments to cultivate new forms of relationships with emigrant communities.Borderless Borders describes the structural processes and active interventions taking place inside and outside U.S. L

Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are ''cosmopolitan workshops'' where ''cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind'' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms of sociality in the face of ''global closure''

In this article I discuss the themes of movement and restriction inherent in digital technologies in two very different artistic projects, both of which offer aesthetic material for debating the politics of data. I approach this discussion through the term gravity as used by philosopher Levi R. Bryant (The Gravity of Things; Onto-Cartography). Through an analogy to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, Bryant suggests the term gravity to denote how both semiotic and material entities influence the becoming and movement of subjects and collectives in time and space (Bryant, The Gravity of Things 10). I use this as a point of departure to investigate the shared space between physical and virtual borders, and the streams of data that are formed by, and also form, the space they traverse. The term gravity is used to elucidate the contours of the digital space that determines the paths between sender and receiver, as well as draws and erases borders, restricts and enables movement.

The latest expansion of the EU towards the East has again modified its borders, showing once again the intangibility and flexibility of the latter. The very definition of border acquires different meanings depending on which theme is being discussed: an impenetrable barrier against migratory flows and the introduction of goods, transforming itself into a strainer for the exporting of national products. The new Internal Affairs Commissioner for the EU, Rocco Buttiglione, affirms on the one hand that migratory flows cannot be blocked manu militari, although he also believes that Europe decides who can enter and who cannot. Even within Europe, and despite the Schengen Agreements, borders are taking shape in concrete situations, reminding us that their disappearance is not definitive. We should differentiate between natural borders and those erected by man; in reference to the latter we will focus on walls, such as the one no longer standing in Berlin or that illegally erected by Israel in the Occupied Territories, scoffing at the international bodies dedicated to the defense of human rights and freedoms. In reference to natural borders, in direct opposition to those made by man, and due to the dramatic events that are taking place, we will concentrate on the oceans, true black holes in which the dreams of immigrants come to a tragic end. The absence of man-made elements can be more powerful than the presence of the very same barriers. The interesting thing about the Berlin Wall, having certain similarities to the Great Wall of China, is its slow (but deliberate)transformation from Cold War symbol to souvenir and finally its disappearance altogether in favour of urbanistic exploitation. The best analysis of this condition, as R. Koolhaas states (encloses free space, leaving outside the enclosed city), resides in its mutable situation, sometimes improvised evolution, and others detailed planning. It seems unfathomable that after the disappearance of one wall someone could construct another, especially under ...