Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization
Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization
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Abstract
In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the social and political landscape. “Borders”—defined broadly to include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural boundaries—have become increasingly salient sites of struggle over social belonging and cultural and material resources. How do contemporary activists navigate and challenge these borders? What meanings do they ascribe to different social, cultural, and political boundaries, and how do these meanings shape the strategies in which they engage? Moreover, how do these social movements confront internal borders based on the differences that emerge within social change initiatives? This book explores these important questions through case studies situated in geographic contexts around the globe. By conceptualizing struggles over identity, social belonging, and exclusion as extensions of border politics, the book captures the complex ways in which geographic, cultural, and symbolic dividing lines are blurred and transcended, but also fortified and redrawn. The book places right-wing and social justice initiatives in the same analytical frame to identify patterns that span the political spectrum. It offers a lens through which to understand borders as sites of diverse struggles, as well as the strategies and practices used by diverse social movements in today's globally interconnected world.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Part I Gendered, Ethno-Nationalist Struggles and Militarization
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“Border Granny Wants You!”: Grandmothers Policing Nation at the US-Mexico Border
Jennifer L. Johnson
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Defending the Nation: Militarism, Women’s Empowerment, and the Hindu Right
Meera Sehgal
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Borders, Territory, and Ethnicity: Women and the Naga Peace Process
Duncan McDuie-Ra
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Imperial Gazes and Queer Politics: Re/Reading Female Political Subjectivity in Pakistan
Moon M. Charania
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“Border Granny Wants You!”: Grandmothers Policing Nation at the US-Mexico Border
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Part II Politicized Identities and Belonging
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Indigenous Peoples and Colonial Borders: Sovereignty, Nationhood, Identity, and Activism
Sarah Maddison
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Constricting Boundaries: Collective Identity in the Tea Party Movement
Deana A. Rohlinger and others
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Occupy Slovenia: How Migrant Movements Contributed to New Forms of Direct Democracy
Maple Razsa andAndrej Kurnik
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Challenging Borders, Imagining Europe: Transnational LGBT Activism in a New Europe
Phillip M. Ayoub andDavid Paternotte
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Indigenous Peoples and Colonial Borders: Sovereignty, Nationhood, Identity, and Activism
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Part III Contested Solidarities and Emerging Sites of Struggle
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Frames, Boomerangs, and Global Assemblages: Border Distortions in the Global Resistance to Dam Building in Lesotho
Yvonne A. Braun andMichael C. Dreiling
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Networks, Place, and Barriers to Cross-Border Organizing: “No Border” Camping in Transcarpathia, Ukraine
Renata Blumberg andRaphi Rechitsky
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“Giving Wings to Our Dreams”: Binational Activism and Workers’ Rights Struggles in the San Diego–Tijuana Border Region
Michelle Téllez andCristina Sanidad
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Frames, Boomerangs, and Global Assemblages: Border Distortions in the Global Resistance to Dam Building in Lesotho
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Conclusion
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End Matter
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