The Routledge Research Companion to Border Studies

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: THEORIZING BORDERS: CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF BORDER STUDIES -- 1 A Border Theory: An Unattainable Dream or a Realistic Aim for Border Scholars? -- 2 Contemporary Research Agendas in Border Studies: An Overview -- 3 The Mask of the Border -- 4 Borders and Memory -- 5 Border Regions as Neighbourhoods -- 6 The Border as Method: Towards an Analysis of Political Subjectivities in Transmigrant Spaces -- PART II: GEOPOLITICS: STATE, NATION AND POWER RELATIONS -- 7 Borders, Border Studies and EU Enlargement -- 8 The 'Green Line' of Cyprus: A Contested Boundary in Flux -- 9 Post-Soviet Boundaries: Territoriality, Identity, Security, Circulation -- 10 Polar Regions – Comparing Arctic and Antarctic Border Debates -- 11 Spaces, Territorialities and Ethnography on the Thai-, Sino- and Indo-Myanmar Boundaries -- PART III: BORDER ENFORCEMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY -- 12 The Emerging Politics of Border Management: Policy and Research Considerations -- 13 Building Borders the Hard Way: Enforcing North American Security Post 9/11 -- 14 Blurring Boundaries/Sharpening Borders: Analysing the US's Use of Military Aviation Technologies to Secure International Borders, 2001-2008 -- 15 A Retrospective Look at the Nature of National Borders in Latin America -- 16 The Inter-Korean Border Region – 'Meta-border' of the Cold War and Metamorphic Frontier of the Peninsula -- PART IV: BORDERS AND TERRITORIAL IDENTITIES: THE MECHANISMS OF EXCLUSION AND INCLUSION -- 17 National Minorities in European Border Regions -- 18 The Borderland Existence of the Mongolian Kazakhs: Boundaries and the Construction of Territorial Belonging

pt. I. Theorizing bordifers : conceptual aspects of bordifer studies -- pt. II. Geopolitics : state, nation and power relations -- pt. III. Bordifer enforcement in the 21st century -- pt. IV. Bordifers and territorial identities : the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion -- pt. V. The role of bordifers in a seemingly bordiferless world -- pt. VI. Crossing bordifers -- pt. VII. Creating neighbourhoods -- pt. VIII. Nature and environment

This comprehensive volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of leading scholars to provide an authoritative, state-of-the-art review of all aspects of borders and border research. It is global in scope and embraces the more traditional strands of the field including geopolitics, migration and territorial identities, and also recently emerging topics such as the role of borders in a seemingly borderless world; creating neighbourhoods, and border enforcement in the post-9/11 era