ISBN: 978-158826-272-1 $27.50 | ||
1998/264 pages/LC: 98-29810 |
The editors provide a theoretical introduction to the intrinsic nature of borders, as well as an overview of current trends in borderlands studies, to serve as a framework for the contributors’ case studies. A concluding section examines the implications of transcending traditional borders.
David Spener is assistant professor of sociology at Trinity University. Kathleen Staudt is professor of political science at the University of Texas, El Paso. Her most recent publications include Free Trade?: Informal Economies at the U.S.-Mexico Border and Women, International Development and Politics: The Bureaucratic Mire.
"This volume implicitly represents a challenge to traditional border studies and invites borderland scholars to expand the scope of this multidisciplinary area to include discussions of metaphorical borders as well as material ones.... [It] constitutes an important contribution to border studies."—Journal of Borderlands Studies
"This exciting and thoughtful study brought the 'border' to life for me in new and provocative ways. Paying attention to both systems and subjects.... it represents a vital contribution to postcolonial analysis of the U.S.-Mexico border."—Gay Young