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Title Boundaries and belonging : states and societies in the struggle to shape identities and local practices / edited by Joel S. Migdal
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 363 pages)
Contents Mental maps and virtual checkpoints: struggles to construct and maintain state and social boundaries / Joel S. Migdal -- Do states always favor stasis? The changing status of tribes in the Ottoman Empire / Reşat Kabasa -- The permeable boundaries of Ottoman Jewry / Sarah Abrevaya Stein -- "Dangerous populations": state territoriality and the constitution of national minorities / Adriana Kemp -- Making Myanmars: language, territory, and belonging in post-socialist Burma / Mary P. Callahan -- Institutionalizing virtual Kurdistan West: transnational networks and ethnic contention in international affairs / Nicole F. Watts -- Challenging boundaries and belongings: "mixed blood" allotment disputes at the turn of the twentieth century / Lauren Basson -- Belonging and not: Rossland, British Columbia, during the great war / Kenneth G. Lawson -- Boundaries and belonging in conditions of extreme politicization: the Chinese state in private and public spaces, 1949-1968 / Neil J. Diamant -- Gender and the reproduction and maintenance of group boundaries: why the "secular" state matters to religious authorities in Israel / Patricia J. Woods -- Passports into credit cards: on the borders and spaces of neoliberal citizenship / Matthew Sparke -- Contested boundaries: citizens, states, and supranational belonging in the European Union / Lisa Conant -- Boundaries of the nation-state and the lure of the Islamic community in Turkey / Yeşim Arat
Summary "This interdisciplinary volume maintains the importance of a spatial understanding of society and history, but suggests a way of conceiving of borders and space that goes beyond a school map of states. Its subject is the struggle among differing spatial logics, or mental maps. It is concerned with the meaning that state borders hold for people, but recognizes that such meaning varies and is contested by other social formations. The authors here ask, To what degree do state borders encase the mechanisms that make the decisive rules governing people's lives and to what extent do they give way to other rulemakers? To what extent do states circumscribe the communities to which people feel attached and to what extent do they intersect with other communities of belonging? The essays in this book home in on the struggles and conflicting demands on people, given that state borders are not automatically pre-eminent and that other spatial logics demand attention"--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Boundaries.
Allegiance.
Group identity.
Social Identification
boundaries.
group identity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
Allegiance
Boundaries
Group identity
Staat (politicologie)
Grenzen.
Sociale identiteit.
Loyaliteit.
Form Electronic book
Author Migdal, Joel S
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