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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

The ever-expanding demand for higher education poses a special challenge for small states. Historically many of their citizens have studied at traditional universities overseas but the increasing foreign exchange costs to individuals and governments precludes sending people abroad as a core strategy for achieving mass higher education. Small states now want to offer more postsecondary education on their territories, not just to save money but also to reduce brain drain and to enhance the cultural, economic, and social benefits associated with local higher education.// However, countries with populations of less than a quarter of a million people do not have the critical mass to create national institutions in the image of those traditional universities at which their elites studied overseas. The Commonwealth of Learning is helping small states to invent new types of postsecondary institutions that achieve the goal of providing local education at reasonable cost. This means combining several approaches: expanding local conventional provision; structuring partnerships with overseas institutions; expanding the use of distance learning, both synchronous and asynchronous; and adapting global intellectual resources to local needs.// The paper explores an important new phenomenon that recasts the old debates about balancing nationalism and regionalism in a new light. This is the rapid deepening of a global pool of Open Educational Resources (OERs) of high quality. These allow institutions to offer authentically local curricula developed to world standards of quality. The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth is a first step in exploiting this new trend.

Cover -- Title Page -- Other Books in the At Issue Series -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Cross-Border Trouble -- 2. The State of the African Union -- 3. Open Borders Would Benefit Africa, but Careful Planning Is Necessary -- 4. Open Hypocrisy in the British Commonwealth -- 5. Climate Without Borders -- 6. The New Refugees -- 7. Transnational Refugee Nation -- 8. The American Example -- 9. A History of Passports, Nationalism, and Borders -- 10. An Economic ArgumentAgainst Open Borders -- 11. An Economic Argument for Open Borders -- 12. The Political Effects of Open Borders -- 13. Open Borders Are Moral Borders -- 14. The Swiss Example -- 15. How Open Borders Help Workers Around the World -- 16. Why Open Borders Are Essential to the Global Economy -- 17. Moral and Political Arguments for Open Borders -- 18. Socially Constructed Differences Create Borders and Refugee Crises -- 19. The Schengen Area: Free MovementIs Good for Business -- 20. Humanity Is Interconnected and Shares an Obligation -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

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.

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

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 ...

This paper seeks to address the problem of strangeness within the context of migration in Africa. I draw on historical realities that inform existing international and African discourses on migration. I hope to show that most African countries have unconsciously bought into international arguments that drive the legitimacy of building walls, visible and invisible, and the promotion of stringent migration policies that minimise the influx of African immigrants. I draw on political and philosophical positions of African thinkers like Kwame Nkrumah, among others, in my theorisation of strangeness and the need to dispel the potential negative conception of strangeness within Africa's migration policies. I juxtapose these positions with Western political theories with the hope of emphasizing African humanism as a key conception worth considering when decolonising borders.