Geographies of unease: Witchcraft and boundary construction in an African borderland
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DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102442
Abstract: African borderlands – such as those between South Sudan, Uganda and Congo – are often presented by analysts as places of agency and economic opportunity, in contrast to hardened, securitized borders elsewhere. We emphasize, however,… read more here.
Keywords: witchcraft boundary; borderland; geographies unease; unease witchcraft ... See more keywords
Commercial, Confessional, and Military Encounters in the Ottoman–Iranian Borderlands in the Early Modern Period
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DOI: 10.1080/00210862.2019.1646388
Abstract: The papers (with the exception of two) in this special issue of Iranian Studies were presented in a series of conferences on Ottoman–Iranian encounters in Retz, Istanbul, and Vienna. Given the contested and militarized nature… read more here.
Keywords: modern period; ottoman iranian; borderland; iranian studies ... See more keywords
Constructing, Negotiating, and Performing Chicano Manhood as a Borderland Masculinity
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DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1257364
Abstract: ABSTRACT In this article, I focus on the construction, negotiation and performance of Chicano masculinity and, more specifically, on its connection with the US-Mexico borderland. Drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa’s work on the borderland, this article… read more here.
Keywords: performing chicano; constructing negotiating; borderland; negotiating performing ... See more keywords
Karen Education and Boundary-Making at the Thai-Burmese Borderland
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DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1685401
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article argues that schooling and education are boundary-making devices in the volatile borderland straddling Burma and Thailand. We show that the development of Karen education was one of the ways in which the… read more here.
Keywords: thai burmese; borderland; boundary making; karen education ... See more keywords
Competing Visions at the EU’s Edge: Liberal vs. Conservative-Christian Notions of Europe in the Ukrainian–Hungarian Borderland
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DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2024.2382680
Abstract: ABSTRACT Across Europe there is a plurality of competing visions on what Europe means, each appealing to identity and bringing along potential (geo)political implications. Identification with such visions are particularly worth investigating along the EU… read more here.
Keywords: borderland; ukrainian hungarian; hungarian borderland; edge liberal ... See more keywords
Infrastructures of (im)mobility: maps, mines, militarization, and the making of remote borderland in Kargil
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DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2025.2459771
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article critiques the dominant paradigm of mobility in borderland studies by foregrounding the concept of im/mobility as a crucial lens for understanding the marginalization of border regions. Employing ethnographic methods in Kargil, it… read more here.
Keywords: borderland; mobility; infrastructures mobility; mobility maps ... See more keywords
Political space and borderland practices in Abkhazia and Adjara: exploring the role of Ottoman legacies and contemporary Turkish influences
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DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2017.1418671
Abstract: Abstract The article provides a comparative exploration of the role of Ottoman legacies and contemporary Turkish influences in shaping political space in the Black Sea regions of Adjara and Abkhazia. Conceptualizing both as borderlands, the… read more here.
Keywords: borderland; role ottoman; legacies contemporary; ottoman legacies ... See more keywords
"It's Not the Asperger's That Causes the Anxiety, It's the Communication": Person-Centered Outcomes of Hope and Recovery in a Cultural-Clinical Borderland.
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DOI: 10.1097/tld.0000000000000149
Abstract: What is this story about? Story of hope and recovery in a cultural–clinical borderland; SLP working differently alongside a woman with ASD and associated anxiety linked to social communication. Orientation Who is involved in the… read more here.
Keywords: hope recovery; borderland; communication; pathology ... See more keywords
Beyond Double Identity, beyond Periphery: Chinese Ethnic Korean Poetry as Borderland Literature
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DOI: 10.1215/07311613-10948694
Abstract: Abstract:In East Asia, Chinese ethnic Korean literature has drawn scholarly attention from Chinese, South Korean, and Japanese scholars. They mostly situate the literature within a “double identity” (ijung chŏngch’esŏng 이중정체성) that is both Korean and… read more here.
Keywords: double identity; borderland; chinese ethnic; ethnic korean ... See more keywords
"Commoning" at the borderland: ecovillage development, socio-economic segregation and institutional mediation in southwestern Alentejo, Portugal
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DOI: 10.2458/v24i1.20978
Abstract: Abstract This article sheds light on the exclusionary dynamics that emerge when the construction of commons-based alternative political ecologies does not take political economy considerations into account. It analyses the relationship between Tamera – Healing… read more here.
Keywords: alentejo portugal; borderland; southwestern alentejo; development ... See more keywords