Border aesthetics : concepts and intersections /
Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject's conceptu...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
[2017]
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| Series: | Time and the world ;
v. 3. |
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| Summary: | Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject's conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas of ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting, the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture and migration. |
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| Physical Description: | 179 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781785334641 1785334646 |