THE ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION TO BORDER STUDIES
ASHGATE
RESEARCH
COMPANION
The Ashgate Research Companions are designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companions editors bring together a team of respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their speciality, providing a comprehensive reference to the field.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies
Edited by
DORIS WASTL-WALTER
University of Bern, Switzerland
First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing
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The Ashgate research companion to border studies.
1. Boundaries.
I. Research companion to border studies II . Wastl-Walter,
Doris, 1953-
320.12-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wastl-Walter, Doris, 1953-
The Ashgate research companion to border studies / Doris Wastl-Walter.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7406-1 (hardback) 1. Boundaries. 2. Borderlands. 3. Political geography. 4. Human geography. 5. ethnicity. i. Title.
JC323.W37 2010
JC323.W37 2010
2010047875
ISBN 9780754674061 (hbk)
Contents
Doris Wastl-Walter
Anssi Paasi
David Newman
Henk van Houtum
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Alan K. Henrikson
Stefanie Kron
James Wesley Scott
Nicos Peristianis and John C. Mavris
Vladimir Kolossov
Lassi Heininen and Michele Zebich-Knos
Karin Dean
Jason Ackleson
Heather Nicol
Alison J. Williams
Edgardo Manero
Valrie Gelzeau
Jan D. Markusse
Alexander C. Diener
Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh
Roos Pijpers
Chun Yang
Tim Bunnell, Hamzah Muzaini and James D. Sidaway
Vera Pavlakovich-Kochi
Eunyoung Christina Choi
Parvati Raghuram and Nicola Piper
Elisabeth Baschlin and Mohamed Sidati
Heikki Eskelinen
Kroly Kocsis and Monika Mria Vradi
Gabriel Popescu
Juliet J. Fall
Sanette L.A. Ferreira
Clive Schofield
List of Figures and Maps
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Jason Ackleson is Associate Professor in the Department of Government at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. As a Truman and British Marshall Scholar, he earned his PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. At the LSE, he also served as the senior editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Working and publishing on questions of security, borders, and globalization, Dr Ackleson is active in the U.S. Department of Homeland Securitys National Center for Border Security and Immigration, a national university consortium led by the University of Arizona. Within the Center, he is working on major multi-year research grants that are examining border security and international governance.
Elisabeth Bschlin is a geographer. She has been a lecturer for human geography at the University of Berne (Switzerland) from 1983 to 2010. Her special topics are urban history, planning, development and developing countries, and feminist geography. In 1974-1975, she worked as an urban planer in Algeria. In 1977, she became a member of the Swiss Support Committee for the Sahrawis (SUKS) and has been its president since 1992. She has written many articles and contributed to several conferences on the political problem of Western Sahara and the Sahrawi society in transition. She is the co-editor of the journal of the Swiss Society on Middle East and Islamic Cultures.
Tim Bunnell is an Associate Professor jointly appointed by the Department of Geography and Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. He holds a Bachelor and a Doctorate in geography from the University of Nottingham, England. The main focus of his research has been the politics of urban landscape change in and around Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Various strands of Dr Bunnells more recent research concern cross-border geographies of Southeast Asia, including the transnational lives of Malay communities in the UK, cross-Straits linkages between Aceh and Malaysia as well as Singapores trans-border hinterland.
Eunyoung Christina Choi is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbias Liu Institute for Global Issues. Her main fields of research interest include gender, migration and geopolitics of Northeast Asia. She worked as an assistant for refugees and displaced persons in Yanbian, China, and in Syracuse, USA.
Karin Dean is a senior researcher at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University. Her research interests include the issues of territoriality and bordering, especially de- and reterritorialization of spaces and power in academia and/or the postmodern world, focusing on the borderlands in mainland Southeast Asia. She has researched the Sino-Myanmar border since 2000, while in 2002-2006, she was also working with the ethnic ceasefire and non-ceasefire groups at the Thai-Myanmar border. Her current research focuses on local practices and places as important nodes of networking in the wider struggle for control of various socio-technical networks.
Alexander C. Diener is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. He is the author of One Homeland or Two?: Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolias Kazakhs
