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Paradoxically cast as material and imaginary; utopic and dystopic; militarized and peaceful; masculine and feminine; and white, brown, and Other, Latinos hold long-standing concerns regarding borders and their representations and possibilities. Indeed the term "borderlands" offers the promise of disrupting stagnating debates on identity. It likewise holds the pitfalls of becoming subject to appropriation sans the anchor of long-standing identity politics. Indeed, these tensions infuse competing approaches to the border, those who take the materiality of the international boundary between the United States and Mexico as a point of departure versus those who take borders in all their permutations as instigating new mediations of difference and broad new cultural imaginaries. Feminists, critical race scholars, Chicano and Latino scholars, and scholars vested in questions of decoloniality have used metaphorical renderings of the border as points of departure. They contrast sharply with those who see it as a site of violent subjugation and oppression. Borders are of particular import as border controls and undocumented border crossings have intensified across the globe during the long moment of neoliberal globalization and particularly following 11 September 2001. Many works, of course, draw from both these currents. In this respect, the vast interdisciplinary nature of the scholarship and the heavy influence of intersectionality, or the notion that race, class, and gender intertwine complexly and are mutually reinforcing, render such categorization fraught if not problematic.

Fronteras por doquier (migrantes: cifras, citas, casos)

AbstractLarge zones of de facto political autonomy persist even as various state systems have endeavored to fix, rationalize, and secure external and internal borders. These spaces are products of long histories of uneven extension and exercise of state sovereignty in the subcontinent and much of Asia and Africa. Histories and legacies of borderland autonomy have important implications for contemporary sovereign practice in much of the world. This article examines the making, unmaking, and endurance of borderlands around Hyderabad in the eastern Deccan. It describes the region as an "old borderland," from premodern frontier zone, to sovereign and autonomous state during the era of British imperial dominance, through its mid-twentieth-century reemergence as a site of state avoidance or resistance. Identifying the productive relationship among frictional environments, political sovereignty, and social and cultural dynamics, this article develops frameworks for historicizing borderland autonomy in South Asia and beyond.

In Ukrainian it's Kyiv, in Russian Kiev. As Ukraine celebrates ten years of independence, ancient histories have ignited linguistic and other differences that divide this buffer state between western Europe and the vast Eurasian subcontinent

Explores political, social, economic, and cultural conditions since independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991; some focus on relations with Belarus and Russia; 8 articles. Contents: A matter of identity; Who is Ukraine?, by Vera Rich; Ukraine's ethnic kitchen, by Andrei Kurkov; The most dangerous place, by Olena Nikolayenko; Two worlds and Big Brother, by Mykola Riabchuk; Don't be afraid of the dark, by Andrei Kurkov; The story of Chernobyl; Voices of Chernobyl, by Natalie Nougayrède.

The article attempts to identify Kharkiv's place on the mental map of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and traces the changing image of the city in Ukrainian and Russian narratives up to the end of the twentieth century. The author explores the role of Kharkiv in the symbolic reconfiguration of the Ukrainian-Russian borderland and describes how the interplay of imperial, national, and local contexts left an imprint on the city's symbolic space.

Starting with Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (1992), the recent writings of Richard Rodriguez not only have stressed the centrality of cultural interaction and exchange, but have also resorted to Jose Vasconcelos's notion of the "cosmic race" in their analyses of contemporary American reality. Although his essays havepoints in common with theories of the "border"and of the "borderlands," Rodriguez's celebration of hybridity has not led him to automatically embrace progressive public policies. On the contrary, he now bases his criticisms of affirmative action and bilingual education on the "cosmic race"and the concomitant emphasis on cultural hybridity. However, he has also become a defender of immigrant and gay rights. Rodriguez's writings question the frequent assumption of a necessary linkage between the acknowledgment of hybridity and the defense of multiculturalism. But they also question what is "conservative" or 'progressive" within the Chicano community.