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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Border Studies"”.
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German-Polish cross-border co-operation and the politics of transgression
… relations and the changing practices of cross-border cooperation in the 1990s. It reviews theories of border studies and argues that, in spite of all change, border studies is part of a structure of power. The author analyses the concepts of transgression and regression in order to describe the …
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Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature
… an opportunity to reevaluate canon formation, Border studies discourse, and also serve as a platform to engage with twenty-first century conversations of globalism, border enforcement, and African American-Latinx solidarity.</p>
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'A Moment of Magic': Coyote, Tricksterism, and the Role of the Shaman in Rudolfo Anaya's Sonny Baca Novels
… violence. Tracing postcolonial theory, border studies, and contemporary discussions of trickster figures in Native cultures, this study argues that Anaya confronts both the genre expectations of the detective novel and the implicit racism and discrimination that continue to pervade …
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Three "Eurocities": Objectives for cross-border cooperation at the Hispano-Luso border
… State-sanctioned, supranationally-enabled cross-border regions (CBRs) while carrying out various pragmatic cross-border cooperation (CBC) projects to address shared objectives in the midst of disparate societies, economies and governance structures. This research project investigates the …
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Contested conservation : past and present conservation praxis in the Great Lakes region of Africa
… Lakes Region of Africa.Using post-colonial and border studies as a theoretical framework, and using a combination of archival and qualitative data, the study questions how and why conservation praxis and policy has changed since the colonial era. The research presented here reveals that the …
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Policy and Polity: Space, Boundaries, and Governance in Early Modern London, 1580-1640
… urgence. Drawing on theories and principles of border studies, this dissertation treats the city's boundaries as processes forged and transformed by engagement, by the interplay between popular activity, political programs, and perceptions of space and authority. Policy and Polity, Space, …
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Land use change and bordering in the Greater Mapungubwe transfrontier conservation area
This study uses bioregionalism and bordering as a lens for understanding the construction of Mapungubwe as a transfrontier conservation area and the effects of that process on biodiversity, the local economy and local communities. The main assumption underlying the study is that transfrontier …
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Moving, waiting, searching across borders: Gendered geographies of violence, disappearance and contestation in southern Mexico
… political and humanitarian thinking about bordering practices as integral parts of states’ tactics to control people’s movement only. The dissertation delves into migrant and body-territory epistemologies of everyday politics, arts-based contestations and performative acts, revealing and …
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Transnational Crime Scenes and Travelling Detectives: Space and Movement in Crime Drama Series 2017-2023
… emphasising seamless movement and invisible borders within Europe. In contrast, series from the later 2010s and early 2020s show a renewed focus on borders as obstacles, and on restricted (particularly police) character movement. This study employs a transdisciplinary framework that draws on …
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Science fiction at the border
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Bordering the Mediterranean: Liminality and Regioncraft at the Center of the World
… argument in this dissertation is that borders (like the Mediterranean) do not represent the limits to territorially fixed entities, but are rather continually ongoing projects that come to be negotiated and reified through political practices that are focused, in this instance, on …
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The Power of the Voice: Listening to Mexican and Central American Immigrant Experiences (1997-2010)
… scholarship on mobility, transnationalism, and border studies. This multi-genre and cultural studies approach allows me to focus on a diverse group of writers and artists who either tell their own immigrant stories or create experience-based narratives by listening to the subaltern and …
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The Grey Matters: Investigating the Wingfield Strip as an Urban Borderspace
… alike. This thesis explores how urban borderspaces, sites of imposing and resisting spatial illegality, produce differentiated urban residents beyond the citizen/non-citizen binary. Placing literature on critical border studies and Southern urbanism in conversation creates an …
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Understanding the Construction of National and Regional Identity: Perceptions of One Another along the Bulgarian-Macedonian Border
… of people residing in the vicinity of national borders are complex and affected by many factors, especially by narratives imposed by national governments through the national education system. The European Union, as a supranational organization, also provides narratives that expose individuals …
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Across the River: ferries as a vehicle for exploring riverborderscapes
This thesis uses the concept of the riverborderscape to provide new understandings of watery geographies, borders and landscape. This is a spatial and conceptual term used to explore the space of the river through a holistic approach, focusing upon the materialities, experiences and narratives that …
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The archaeology of early medieval borderscapes: a case study of south-west Osraige
This thesis explores the role of borderlands and territorial divisions in early medieval Ireland (AD 400 - 1100), through a landscape-based case study of the southwest border of the regional kingdom of Osraige (mainly in modern-day Co. Kilkenny) with the larger overkingdom of Mumu (Munster). The …
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Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails
Framed within the fields of Border and Migration Studies and the Environmental Humanities, Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails, examines how 21st -century Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicanx literature and art depict dynamic, unstable geographies that defy …
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Writing Resistance in the Three Punjabs: Critical Engagements with Literary Tradition
… and defy the physical, conceptual, and political borders that empire and post-colonial state alike sought to entrench, de-provincialising Punjabi writing and connecting it with wider debates around decolonisation, feminism, Marxism, revolutionary culture, anti-imperialism, and popular struggle in …
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Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958
… approach dialoging with Chicano/a, borderlands, and American literary studies within a historical framework to chart how early Mexican American writings reclaim the region by mapping transnational heritages belonging to Mexican American and Chicano/a communities.
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Exploring minority stress processes and social supports in the workplace: how individuals in same-sex relationships manage the work/family border
Studies of minority stress processes (Meyer, 2003) in the workplace have focused on individual level outcomes, such as individual mental health (Velez, Moradi, & Brewster, 2013), or outcomes within the work context, such as job satisfaction or productivity (Button, 2001; Ragins Singh, & Cornwall, …