Deepening Divides: How Physical Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate our World (Anthropology, Culture and Society) (Hardcover)

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Deepening Divides: How Physical Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate our World (Anthropology, Culture and Society) (Hardcover)

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At a glance, 'borders' and 'boundaries' may seem synonymous. But in the real (geopolitical) world, they coexist as distinct, albeit overlapping entities: the former a state's delimitation of territory; the latter the social delineation of differences. The refugee crisis in Europe showed how racial and ethnic boundaries are often instrumentalised to justify the strengthening of state borders - regardless of the cost in human life. But there are other, less tragic, examples that illustrate this overlapping as well, and ultimately demonstrate that the oft-differentiated spheres of borders and boundaries are best understood through their relationship to one another. Deepening Divides explores this relationship from many distinct perspectives and national contexts, with case studies covering five continents and drawing on anthropology, gender studies, law, political science and sociology for a truly interdisciplinary collection.
Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of numerous books including The Will to Punish (2018), Life: A Critical Users Manual (2018), Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (2016) and Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing.

Product Details ISBN: 9780745340425
ISBN-10: 0745340423
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication Date: December 20th, 2019
Pages: 256
Language: English
Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society