In short, the interview and essays gathered here all seek to explore various borderlands and to contribute to a growing body of work on borderland pedagogy. Borderland is a particularly apt metaphor in which to ground these essays, ...

Author: Andrea A. Lunsford

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

ISBN: 9780822972532

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 288

View: 871

Download »

On the surface, postcolonial studies and composition studies appear to have little in common. However, they share a strikingly similar goal: to provide power to the words and actions of those who have been marginalized or oppressed. Postcolonial studies accomplishes this goal by opening a space for the voices of “others” in traditional views of history and literature. Composition studies strives to empower students by providing equal access to higher education and validation for their writing. For two fields that have so much in common, very little dialogue exists between them. Crossing Borderlands attempts to establish such an exchange in the hopes of creating a productive “borderland” where they can work together to realize common goals.

All three terms relate to the borderland population's social practices across the border: 'transnational borderlanders' are the opposite of 'national borderlanders'. While the latter are unicultural, often unilingual and rarely cross ...

Author: Elisabeth Boesen

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317139775

Category: Social Science

Page: 198

View: 720

Download »

The expectations of European planners for the gradual disappearance of national borders, and the corresponding prognoses of social scientists, have turned out to be over-optimistic. Borders have not disappeared – not even in a unified and predominantly peaceful Europe – but rather they have changed, become more varied and, in a certain sense, mobile, taking on an important role in the everyday lives of more people than ever before. Furthermore, it is now widely accepted that borders do not just hinder communication and the formation of relationships, but also channel and prefigure them in a positive way. Presenting a number of studies of everyday life in European borderlands, this book addresses the multifarious and complex ways in which borders function as both barriers and bridges. Focusing on ‘established’ Western European borderlands – with the exception of three contrasting cases – the book attempts a turn from conflict to harmony in the study of borderlands and thus examines the more mundane manifestations of border life and the complex, often unconscious motives of everyday cross-border practices. The collection of chapters demonstrates that even in the case of ‘open’ political borders, the border remains an enduring factor that is not adequately described as either a problematic barrier or a desirable bridge. The studies look at bordering processes, not only approaching them from different disciplinary angles – sociology, anthropology, geography, history, political science and literary studies – but also choosing different scales and making comparisons that range from different borders of one country to the reactions and attitudes of different individuals in a single borderland village.

Drawing attention to the gendering of cross-border mobility, a relatively new sub-theme in the border studies literature, although it has been on the agenda for much longer in feminist engagements with law and trafficking (Kempadoo, ...

Author: Farhana Ibrahim

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781108967570

Category: Political Science

Page:

View: 420

Download »

This is an interdisciplinary volume exploring a range of historical, anthropological and literary ideas and issues in South Asian Borderlands. Going beyond the territorial and geo-political imaginaries of contemporary borderlands in South Asia, chapters in this book engage with the questions of sovereignty, control, policing as well as continuing affections across politically divided borderlands. Modern conceptions of nationhood have created categories of legality and illegality among historically, socially, economically and emotionally connected residents of South Asian borderlands. This volume provides unique insights into the interconnected lives and histories of these borderland spaces and communities.

Large numbers of refugees from Germany were making their way back home, possibly including Arrow Cross supporters and former Waffen SS volunteers, who had gone westward during the retreats earlier in the year.

Author: Frank N. Schubert

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781441128942

Category: History

Page: 272

View: 882

Download »

An in-depth examination of border decomposition, re-creation and destruction in 20th-century Hungary.

145 Crossing to tend one's fields, for example, emerged as a troublesome issue for borderland villagers. The Allied Control Council issued Directive Number 42 in 1946 allowing for crossing the zonal border by persons who lived in one ...

Author: Jason B. Johnson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781351811057

Category: History

Page: 244

View: 906

Download »

In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to the Berlin Wall. Bush then went on to describe another German wall he saw after Berlin: "if anything, that wall was an even greater obscenity than its eponym to the north." The story of that wall is a fascinating and valuable slice of the history of post-war Europe. That wall had gone up nearly two hundred miles southwest of Berlin at the edge of divided Germany, in the tiny, remote farming village of Mödlareuth. For nearly half the twentieth century, the Iron Curtain divided Mödlareuth in two. In this little valley surrounded by forests and fields, the villagers of Mödlareuth found themselves on the literal front-line of the Cold War. The East German state gradually militarized the border through the community while eastern villagers exhibited a range of responses to cope with their changing circumstances, reflective of the variable nature of the Cold War border through Germany: along the Iron Curtain, the size and isolation of the divided place influenced the local character of the division.

In Crossing the Rubicon, Emmanuel Falque seeks to end this face-off. Convinced that “the more one theologizes, the better one philosophizes,” he proposes a counterblow by theology against phenomenology.

Author: Emmanuel Falque

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

ISBN: 9780823269891

Category: Philosophy

Page: 216

View: 650

Download »

In France today, philosophy—phenomenology in particular—finds itself in a paradoxical relation to theology. Some debate a “theological turn.” Others disavow theological arguments as if such arguments would tarnish their philosophical integrity, while nevertheless carrying out theology in other venues. In Crossing the Rubicon, Emmanuel Falque seeks to end this face-off. Convinced that “the more one theologizes, the better one philosophizes,” he proposes a counterblow by theology against phenomenology. Instead of another philosophy of “the threshold” or “the leap”—and through a retrospective and forward-looking examination of his own method—he argues that an encounter between the two disciplines will reveal their mutual fruitfulness and their true distinctive borders. Falque shows that he has made the crossing between philosophy and theology and back again with audacity and perhaps a little recklessness, knowing full well that no one thinks without exposing himself to risk.

A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years 'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the ...

Author: Anne Applebaum

Publisher: Penguin UK

ISBN: 9780141979236

Category: History

Page: 320

View: 192

Download »

A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years 'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern borderlands comes to life' Ryszard Kapuscinski As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, Anne Applebaum travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and the Carpathian mountains. Rich in vivid characters and stories of tragedy and survival, Between East and West illuminates the soul of a place, and the secret history of its people. 'A beautifully written and thought-provoking account of a journey along Europe's forgotten edge' Timothy Garton Ash 'A vivid and penetrating assessment of the lands between the Baltic and the Black Sea in all their drama and desolation . . . a wise and useful book' Robert Conquest 'Combines the excitement of a well-written and adventurous travelogue with sophisticated reportage' Norman Davies 'You will be totally absorbed' Norman Stone Anne Applebaum is a historian and journalist, a regular columnist for the Washington Post and Slate, and the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, and Iron Curtain, which in 2013 won the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. She is the Director of Political Studies at the Legatum Institute in London, and she divides her time between Britain and Poland, where her husband, Radek Sikorski, serves as Foreign Minister.

Locals from either side of the border between Xinjiang and Kyrgyzstan or Gorno-Badakhshan rarely cross the boundary as tradertourists, driver-transporters, or traffickers. Somewhat more frequently, these locals can be encountered as ...

Author: Steven Parham

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781786721259

Category: Political Science

Page: 304

View: 922

Download »

This region - which marks the meeting of China and post-Soviet Central Asia - is increasingly important militarily, economically and geographically. Yet we know little of the people that live there, beyond a romanticised 'Silk Road' sense of fraternity. In fact, relations between the people of this region are tense, and border violence is escalating - even as the identity and nationality of the people on the ground shifts to meet their new geopolitical realities. As Steven Parham shows, many of the world's Soviet borders have proved to be deeply unstable and, in the end, impermanent. Meanwhile, the looming presence of Modern China and Russia, who are funneling money and military resources into the region - partly to fight what they see as a growing Islamic activism - are adding fuel to the fire. This lyrical, intelligent book functions as part travelogue, part sociological exploration, and is based on a unique body of research - five months trekking through the checkpoints of the border regions. As China continues to grow and become more assertive, as it has been recently in Africa and in the South China Seas - as well as in Xinjiang - China's borderlands have become a battleground between the Soviet past and the Chinese future.

For Ana María Manzanas and Jesús Benito, borderland fictions—or in their words, “border dwellers”—perform “con- crete acts of mediation” and promote “conversation across difference” (3). In Crossing Borderlands Andrea A. Lunsford and ...

Author: Frederick Luis Aldama

Publisher: University of Texas Press

ISBN: 9780292719682

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 198

View: 758

Download »

Why are so many people attracted to narrative fiction? How do authors in this genre reframe experiences, people, and environments anchored to the real world without duplicating "real life"? In which ways does fiction differ from reality? What might fictional narrative and reality have in common--if anything? By analyzing novels such as Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace, Zadie Smith's White Teeth, and Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist, along with selected Latino comic books and short fiction, this book explores the peculiarities of the production and reception of postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction. Frederick Luis Aldama uses tools from disciplines such as film studies and cognitive science that allow the reader to establish how a fictional narrative is built, how it functions, and how it defines the boundaries of concepts that appear susceptible to limitless interpretations. Aldama emphasizes how postcolonial and Latino borderland narrative fiction authors and artists use narrative devices to create their aesthetic blueprints in ways that loosely guide their readers' imagination and emotion. In A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction, he argues that the study of ethnic-identified narrative fiction must acknowledge its active engagement with world narrative fictional genres, storytelling modes, and techniques, as well as the way such fictions work to move their audiences.

Gloria Anzald ́ua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, preface, 3; Carole Boyce Davies, Black Women, Writing, and Identity: Migrations of the Subject, 66–67. 2. Richard Bauman, “Folklore,” in Folklore, Cultural Performances, ...

Author: Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

ISBN: 9780826260093

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 146

View: 319

Download »

Examining works by Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, this innovative book frames black women's aesthetic sensibilities across art forms. Investigating the relationship between vernacular folk culture and formal expression, this study establishes how each of the four artists engaged the identity issues of the 1960s and used folklore as a strategy for crossing borders in the works they created during the following two decades. Because of its interdisciplinary approach, this study will appeal to students and scholars in many fields, including African American literature, art history, women's studies, diaspora studies, and cultural studies.

Rampton ( 1995 , 1997 ) identifies " crossing ” as a kind of mixing in which people use ' a language which isn't generally ... Although crossing could be a feature of any multicultural cum multilingual setting including borderlands ...

Author: Tope Omoniyi

Publisher: Africa World Press

ISBN: 0865439117

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 292

View: 540

Download »

The central pursuit of this book is to demonstrate,the link between language and identity using the,Idiroko/Igolo community on the Nigerian/Benin,border. It raises issues of identity within a,sociolinguistic framework, focusing on the ways in,which colonial boundaries affected community,ethnic and national affiliations and the social,and political dynamics of choosing between various,identities in these contexts. Consisting of seven,chapters, this is a valuable tool for,undergraduates, postgraduates and academics,interested in African borderlands.

While these characters travel across the US - Mexico border , an application of geopoetics need not be limited to crossing a " border / lands . " Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness ( 1902 ) or E.M. Forster's A Passage to India ( 1924 ) ...

Author: Rosemary A. King

Publisher:

ISBN: UCSD:31822031588296

Category: American literature

Page: 258

View: 808

Download »

For over 150 years, borderland authors from both Mexico and the United States have developed novels which owe their narrative power to compelling relationships between literary constructions of space and artistic expressions of conflicts, characters, and cultural encounter. This study explores those relationships by analyzing representations of the spaces in which characters function-whether barrio, ballroom, or border city as well as the places characters inhabit relative to the border-occupying native or foreign territory, traveling temporarily, or settling permanently. Concomitant with close attention to the conceptualization of space in border literature is a foregrounding of the genres that border writers employ, such as historical romance and the Hispanic bildungsroman, as well as the literary traditions from which they draw, such as travel narratives or utopian literature. Assessing geopoetics in border writing from the Mexican American War to the present, including writers such as Helen Hunt Jackson, Jovita Gonzalez, Ernesto Galarza, Americo Paredes, Harriet Doerr, Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Miguel Mendez provides a paradigm for tracing the development and changes in individual responses to this space as well as a broad range of responses based on class and gender. This corpus of literature demonstrates that the various ways in which characters respond to cultural encounter-adapting, resisting, challenging, sympathizing-depends on artistic rendering of spaces and places around them. Thus, the central argument of this project is that character responses to cultural encounters arise out of geopoetics-the artistic expression of space and place-from the earliest to the most recent border narratives.

The contributors to this collection chronicle the transnational processes that bound Mexico and the United States together during the borderlands' formative era-from the early nineteenth century into the 1940s. Book jacket.

Author: Samuel Truett

Publisher: Duke University Press

ISBN: 0822333899

Category: History

Page: 344

View: 828

Download »

The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. While national histories have tended to overlook these complex connections, Continental Crossroads rewrites borderlands history by focusing on them. The contributors to this collection chronicle the transnational processes that bound Mexico and the United States together during the borderlands' formative era-from the early nineteenth century into the 1940s. Book jacket.

Others do cross as well to visit relatives and friends, engage in cultural group and religious events and to tour in the borderlands. These visits, however, are multipurpose, combined ventures which include at least two or three core ...

Author: Martin van der Velde

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317095101

Category: Social Science

Page: 306

View: 472

Download »

The crossing of national state borders is one of the most-discussed issues of contemporary times and it poses many challenges for individual and collective identities. This concerns both short-distance mobility as well as long-distance migration. Choosing to move - or not - across international borders is a complex decision, involving both cognitive and emotional processes. This book tests the approach that three crucial thresholds need to be crossed before mobility occurs; the individual’s mindset about migrating, the choice of destination and perception of crossing borders to that location and the specific routes and spatial trajectories available to get there. Thus both borders and trajectories can act as thresholds to spatial moves. The threshold approach, with its focus on processes affecting whether, when and where to move, aims to understand the decision-making process in all its dimensions, in the hope that this will lead to a better understanding of the ways migrants conceive, perceive and undertake their transnational journeys. This book examines the three constitutive parts discerned in the cross-border mobility decision-making process: people, borders and trajectories and their interrelationships. Illustrated by a global range of case studies, it demonstrates that the relation between the three is not fixed but flexible and that decision-making contains aspects of belonging, instability, security and volatility affecting their mobility or immobility.

The Chicana/o subject does not always have the privilege of deciding whether to cross a border or not. ... end and beginning of the millennium, Chicana/os have no choice but to continue crossing borders and living in the borderlands.

Author: Alejandra C. Elenes

Publisher: Lexington Books

ISBN: 9780739147818

Category: Social Science

Page: 240

View: 970

Download »

Transforming Borders: Chicana/o Popular Culture and Pedagogy situates Chicana feminists' re-imagining of La Llorona, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and Malintzin/Malinche as sources of border/transformative pedagogies. In doing so, C. Alejandra Elenes contributes to the scholarship on transformative pedagogies by adding the voices of Chicana feminist pedagogies, epistemologies, and ontologies. Linking the relationship between cultural practices, knowledge, and teaching in everyday life, Elenes develops h er conceptualization of border/transformative pedagogies.

My analysis of Chicana writings intends to explore these two complementary sides of the Mexican - American nepantla space or borderlands : the borderlands as battleground , and the borderlands as crossroads ; the borderlands as a state ...

Author: Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger

Publisher: Rodopi

ISBN: 9042011963

Category: American literature

Page: 408

View: 309

Download »

Of interest to informed readers responsive to combined textual and cultural approaches to Chicano/a literature and literature in general, Battleground and Crossroads weaves in various critical and theoretical threads to inquire into the relationship between intimate and public spaces in Chicana literature. Without claiming the borderlands as exclusive of the Chicana/o imagination, this book acknowledges the importance of this metaphor for bringing to view a more intercultural United States, allowing it to become inflected with the particularity of each text. The analyses of Chicana fiction, drama, and autobiography explore the construction of identity through the representation of social space and the transformation of literary space. For discussion of a diacritical territory this volume draws on a interdisciplinary practice that facilitates the journey from the most intimate spaces to the most public spaces of modernity, so that the aesthetic text yields its knowledge of the contingent historical circumstances of its production in material and existential terms. The apparent regionalism and localism of this literature is nothing but a reflection of the relationship between the local and the global, the private and the public, the personal and the political, the aesthetic and the ideological, the subversive and the mainstream. Each text stands by itself while it also reaches out to the sociopolitical imaginary for interpretation through an interdisciplinary methodology that is indispensable to do justice to a politicized aesthetics.

A theoretical framework of CRF allows for the interweaving of borderland theory and qualitative ... Border Crossing Borderlands theory (Anzaldúa, 1987) highlights individual negotiations of the sociocultural values of different ...

Author: Ebony O. McGee

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

ISBN: 9781978805699

Category: Education

Page: 232

View: 427

Download »

Research frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and the voices of a number of multidisciplinary scholars. The essays cover three main areas: the widely-held ideology that science and mathematics are “value-free,” which promotes pedagogies of colorblindness in the classroom as well as an avoidance of discussions around using mathematics and science to promote social justice; how male and female students of color experience the intersection of racist and sexist structures that lead to general underrepresentation and marginalization; and recognizing that although there are no quick fixes, there exists evidence-based research suggesting concrete ways of doing a better job of including individuals of color in STEM. As a whole this volume will allow practitioners, teachers, students, faculty, and professionals to reimagine STEM across a variety of educational paradigms, perspectives, and disciplines, which is critical in finding solutions that broaden the participation of historically underrepresented groups within the STEM disciplines.

News of moderate policies on crossing the border spread fast in Tsum, and rural inhabitants, anticipating the opening ... and constraints across the borderland, revealing how everyday life in rural economies is understood on the ground.

Author: Mona Chettri

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

ISBN: 9789048551811

Category: Political Science

Page: 284

View: 634

Download »

Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates how these are transforming borderlands from remote, peripheral backyards to front-yards of economic development and state-building. Development zones encapsulate the networks, institutions, politics and processes specific to enclave development, and offer a new analytical framework for thinking about borderlands; namely, as sites of capital accumulation, territorialisation and socio-spatial changes.

... and shopping are , by nature , competitive , because they compete for potential visitors from the other side , while the other side attempts to dissuade its people from crossing . Borderlands tourism , based on international parks ...

Author: Shaul Krakover

Publisher: Lexington Books

ISBN: 0739102877

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 316

View: 257

Download »

In this timely new collection of essays, an excellent roster of contributors bring new insight to a wide spectrum of topics related to tourism in frontier areas. The book focuses on international case studies as it discusses the economic feasibility of frontier tourist development, the tourist development of rural and urban settings, and the expansion of tourism to remote borderlands. The contributors highlight the potential, as well as the environmental, economic, bureaucratic, and cultural difficulties of peripheral tourism. This innovative and thought-provoking approach--with its wealth of detail--makes Tourism in Frontier Areas essential reading for scholars in tourist development, regional development, and economic geography.

All borderlands , including those shared between Canada and the United States , are defined by the flows and fusions of ... often favored by borderland specialists who focus on syncretist cultural practices that accompany cross - border ...

Author:

Publisher:

ISBN: UCLA:L0107457087

Category: Borderlands

Page:

View: 590

Download »