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Author Dimova, Rozita, author.

Title Border porosities : movements of people, objects, and ideas in the Southern Balkans / Rozita Dimova
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 167 pages) : illustrations
Series Rethinking borders
Rethinking borders
Contents Introduction: The name dispute and the Prespa Agreement -- Railway porosity across the border : from Ottoman railway lines to contemporary migrant transportation -- Desirous borders and consumer porosities : beauty, entertainment, and gambling in the EU periphery -- The sedimentary porosity of tourism, ownership, and child refugees -- Porosity of environmental activism and transnational mining companies : struggles against open-pit mines on the border -- Tidal porosity : displaced borders in Skopje and the colorful revolution -- Conclusion: Porous trails at the border
Summary By drawing on geology's approaches to studying porosity, the book takes an innovative approach arguing that similarly to rocks and minerals that only appear solid and impermeable, seemingly impenetrable borders are inevitably traversed by different forms of passage
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Boundaries -- Anthropological aspects -- Greece -- Case studies
Boundaries -- Anthropological aspects -- North Macedonia -- Case studies
Borderlands -- Greece -- Case studies
Borderlands -- North Macedonia -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Borderlands
Boundaries
Boundaries -- Anthropological aspects
SUBJECT Greece -- Boundaries -- North Macedonia
North Macedonia -- Boundaries -- Greece
Subject Greece
North Macedonia
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
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