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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Challenged borderlands : transcending political and
cultural boundaries. - (Border regions series)
1. Regional economics 2. Balkan Peninsula - Boundaries -
European Union countries 3. European Union countries -
Boundaries - Balkan Peninsula 4. Mexico - Boundaries -
United States 5. United States - Boundaries - Mexico
6. Europe - Economic conditions 7. Europe - Social conditions
8. Mexican-American Border Region - Economic conditions
9. Mexican-American Border Region - Social conditions
I. Pavlakovich-Kochi, Vera
II. Morehouse, Barbara J. (Barbara Jo), 1945- III. Wastl-Walter, Doris
330.94
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Challenged borderlands: transcending political and cultural boundaries / edited by Vera
Pavlakovich-Kochi, Barbara J. Morehouse, Doris Wastl-Walter.
p. cm. - (Border regions series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-4093-0
1. Boundaries. 2. EuropeBoundaries. 3. Mexican-American Border Region. 4.
Regionalism. I. Pavlakovich-Kochi, Vera. II. Morehouse, Barbara J. (Barbara Jo), 1945-
III. Wastl-Walter, Doris, 1953- IV. Series.
JC323.C33 2004
320. l2--dc22
2004046264
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-4093-6 (hbk)
Ana Barbi
Ana Barbi is a Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has been awarded several prestigious scholarships. She was a vice-president of the European Society of Rural Sociology (1988-1993) and has been a member of advisory/editorial boards for several foreign journals. Her bibliography contains some 200 works, among which are two books and 24 chapters (a few coauthored) in 23 Slovenian and 19 foreign books.
Norris C. Clement
Norris C. Clement received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado in 1968. Since that time he has taught and carried out research and consulting projects related to border-regional development in Latin and North America, Europe and Africa. An accomplished jazz pianist and composer, he is developing a multi-media project, Al Norte, that portrays the saga of undocumented immigrants through integrated musical, photographic and verbal images.
Zoltn Hajd
Zoltn Hajd is the Deputy Director of the Transdanubian Reseach Institute of the Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He teaches political and historical geography at the University of Pcs. He is the author of three books and 90 papers in Hungarian and foreign languages, and he has edited or co-edited seven books.
Susanne Janschitz
Susanne Janschitz received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geography and mathematics, respectively, at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Since 1998 she has been a research fellow in the Institute of Geography and Regional Science at the University of Graz, Austria. Her research involves application of GIS in tourism and regional development.
Mladen Klemeni
Mladen Klemeni is a Croatian political geographer. He is a senior researcher and editor at the Lexicographic Institute, Zagreb. He edited Atlas Europe (1997) and the Concise Atlas of the Republic of Croatia (1993). A lecturer in political geography for the Geography Department, University of Zagreb, he has authored and co-authored more than 80 articles and book chapters in Croatia and abroad.
Andrea Ch. Kofler
Andrea Ch. Kofler received her M.A. degree in geography and history at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and she is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bern, Switzerland. In her research, she focuses on the question of how to overcome borders acting as barriers to the interactions and exchanges of people across borders. Specifically, she examines the manifestations of identity and space.
Francisco J. Llera Pacheco
Francisco J. Llera Pacheco obtained his Ph.D. degree in geography and regional development at the University of Arizona, U.S.A. Currently he is the Director for Research at the Universidad Autnoma de Ciudad Jurez in Mxico. In addition, he is a professor at the Department of Business Administration at the same university. His field of research is border and political and urban geography.
Barbara J. Morehouse
Barbara J. Morehouse, Associate Research Scientist at the University of Arizonas Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, U.S.A., holds a B.A. degree in music and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geography. She specializes in border studies and boundary theory, broadly defined. Her research interests include the implications of borders and boundaries in natural resource management and climate impacts on human and natural systems.
Vera Pavlakovich-Kochi
Vera Pavlakovich-Kochi is the Director of the Regional Development Program in the Office of Economic Development and an adjunct faculty in the Department of Geography and Regional Development at the University of Arizona, U.S.A. She has participated in a number of international research teams investigating cross-border cooperation and regional responses to globalization. Her research focuses on border economy and transboundary region building in the United States-Mexico borderlands and southeast Europe.
Patricia L. Salido
Patricia L. Salido is a researcher at the Centro de Investigacin en Alimentacion y Desarrollo, A.C. (CIAD), in Sonora, Mexico. She is an economist trained at the Universidad de Sonora and University College London, U.K. Her main research interests are related to regional specialization processes, particularly in the services sector. She has participated in binational research teams on cross-border health issues.
