Border Culture: Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics
Author: Victor Konrad & Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary
Publisher: Routledge Books
Print Length: 298 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Political Science, Geography, Cultural Studies
Topic: Transnationalism, Borders, Culture & Society, Geopolitics, Imagination, Movement of People and Ideas
This book introduces readers to the cultural imaginings of borders: the in-between spaces in which transnationalism collides with geopolitical cooperation and contestation.
Recent debates about the “refugee crisis” and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have politicized culture at and of borders like never before. Border culture is no longer culture at the margins but rather culture at the heart of geopolitics, flows, and experience of the transnational world. Increasingly, culture and borders are everywhere yet nowhere. In border spaces, national narratives and counter-narratives are tested and evaluated, coming up against transnational culture.
This book provides an extensive and critical vision of border culture on the move, drawing on numerous examples worldwide and a growing international literature across border and cultural studies. It shows how border culture develops in the human imagination and manifests in human constructs of “nation” and “state”, as well as in transnationalism. By analyzing this new and expanding cultural geography of border landscapes, the book shows the way to a fresh, broader dialogue.
Exploring the nature and meaning of the intersection of border and culture, this book will be an essential read for students and researchers across border studies, geopolitics, geography, and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction. Border culture on the move: Bridging border studies and culture theory
2. Foundations: Situating border culture in border theory
3. Border imaginaries and cultural production
4. National narratives and counter-narratives at the border
5. Cultural production and border crossings
6. Borders with/in transnational culture
Index
Victor Konrad is Adjunct Research Professor of Geography at Carleton University. In 1990, he accepted the position as founding Executive Director of the Fulbright Program between Canada and the United States. Dr. Konrad has devoted his career to higher education advancement and development between these neighbouring countries. His research is centred on the transfer of culture across borders, and he has published extensively about Native American encounters with Europeans, cultural landscape transitions, and Canada-U.S. borderlands. Professor Konrad has taught at universities in the United States and Canada, and from 1980 to 1990 served as Director of the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine.
Source: https://carleton.ca/geography/people/konrad-victor-a/
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Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary is a professor at the Université Grenoble-Alpes and director of Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales (UMR 5194) Former student of ENS Fontenay, associate of Geography and honorary member of the IUF. She is a political geographer who specializes on border studies. She is developing research on the interrelationships between space and art in contested places and building an imaginary border art museum. She is the co-founder of the collective Antiatlas border (http://www.antiatlas.net/) and runs the Performance Lab dedicated to Research-Creation.
Source: https://genderexperts.org/experts/67394-anne-laure-amilhat+szary/
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