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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.

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.

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, the second instalment of her autobiography, the celebrated Guatemalan Indian leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner picks up the story where her first volume, I, Rigoberta Menohu, ended. In 1981 Rigoberta fled from Guatemala, deeply traumatised by the violence inflicted on her community including the murders of her brother, father and mother. Exiled in Mexico she began building a support movement with the Indians living as outlaws in Guatemala's mountains. In 1988 she returned to Guatemala City where she was immediately arrested and released only after considerable international pressure. Danielle Mitterrand and Desmond Tutu were amongst those who joined a worldwide campaign to secure the Nobel Peace Prize for Rigoberta. Here she describes the events leading up to winning the prize in 1992 and the joyous celebrations which followed in Guatemala. In her role as roving ambassador for indigenous peoples Rigoberta has traversed the globe and her chronicle of these journeys is a thread which winds through this book. But, like its predecessor, Crossing Borders is much more than a political diary. In these pages Rigoberta talks with deep affection about her family and especially her mother, a woman who combined the various roles of peasant leader, midwife and keeper of the community's secrets. She returns again to the traditions of her Mayan background, comparing her people's respect for the village and its environment with the selfish individualism of a modern consumer society she has come to know only as an adult

Migrating Borders and Moving Times analyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time, and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime to be interrupted only by death. Borders not only define separate spaces, but different temporalities. This book provides both a single interpretative frame and a novel approach to border crossing: an analysis of the reconfiguration of memory, personal and group time that follows the migrants' renegotiation of cross-border space and recalibrations of temporality.

Using original field data from Israel and northern and south-eastern Europe, the contributors argue that new insights are generated by approaching border crossing as a process with diverse temporalities whose relationship to space has always to be empirically determined.

This edited collection brings together scholars whose work explores the entangled relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how in turn children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders. Providing situated accounts which offer critical perspectives on children's engagements with borders, contributors explore both the institutional power of borders as well as children's ability to impact borders through their own activity and agency. They show how borders and the borderlands surrounding them are active zones of engagement where notions of identity, citizenship and belonging are negotiated in ways that empower or disempower children, offer them possibilities and hope or alternatively deprive them of both. With innovative cross-fertilization between Border Studies and Childhood Studies, this volume illustrates the value of bringing children and borders together.

Banking across borders has risen substantially over the past two decades. Yet there is significant heterogeneity in the international and global activities of banks across countries. This paper develops and tests a theoretical model that explains this variation from an international trade theory perspective. In the model, banking across borders arises from differences in factor endowments and differences in banking sector efficiencies between countries. The paper shows how these differences determine banks' foreign asset and liability holdings as well as foreign direct investment in the banking sector. It highlights the differential effects of capital account and banking sector liberalization on banks' foreign positions and international capital flows. The model is consistent with major stylized facts on cross-border banking. The data strongly support its cross-sectional predictions.