Culture and Power at the Edges of the State: National Support and Subversion in European Border Regions

Culture and Power at the Edges of the State: National Support and Subversion in European Border Regions
ISBN-10
3825875695
ISBN-13
9783825875695
Category
History
Pages
380
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
LIT Verlag Münster
Authors
Hastings Donnan, Thomas M. Wilson

Description

State borders are somewhere the state is keen to stress its presence and yet are simultaneously places where that presence is challenged. They are sites of resistance to the state, and at the same time places where the national interest is vigorously maintained. This constant ambiguity generates questions about the dynamics of borderland-state relations, and about how what happens along the border can undermine state policies. Using case studies of nation and state relations in borderlands in Europe this book seeks to understand how structures of power are created, experienced, changed and reproduced.

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