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Release : 2021
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Book Rating : 167/5 ( reviews)
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Download or read book Borders, Thresholds, Boundaries written by . This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ieva Jusionyte
Release : 2018-11-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 642/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Threshold by : Ieva Jusionyte
Download or read book Threshold written by Ieva Jusionyte. This book was released on 2018-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jusionyte explores the sister towns bisected by the border from many angles in this illuminating and poignant exploration of a place and situation that are little discussed yet have significant implications for larger political discourse."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review Emergency responders on the US-Mexico border operate at the edges of two states. They rush patients to hospitals across country lines, tend to the broken bones of migrants who jump over the wall, and put out fires that know no national boundaries. Paramedics and firefighters on both sides of the border are tasked with saving lives and preventing disasters in the harsh terrain at the center of divisive national debates. Ieva Jusionyte’s firsthand experience as an emergency responder provides the background for her gripping examination of the politics of injury and rescue in the militarized region surrounding the US-Mexico border. Operating in this area, firefighters and paramedics are torn between their mandate as frontline state actors and their responsibility as professional rescuers, between the limits of law and pull of ethics. From this vantage they witness what unfolds when territorial sovereignty, tactical infrastructure, and the natural environment collide. Jusionyte reveals the binational brotherhood that forms in this crucible to stand in the way of catastrophe. Through beautiful ethnography and a uniquely personal perspective, Threshold provides a new way to understand politicized issues ranging from border security and undocumented migration to public access to healthcare today.
Author : Silvia Monti
Release : 2013
Genre : Boundaries in literature
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Book Rating : 601/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Boundaries, limits, borders, thresholds by : Silvia Monti
Download or read book Boundaries, limits, borders, thresholds written by Silvia Monti. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Silberman
Release : 2012-05-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 052/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Walls, Borders, Boundaries by : Marc Silberman
Download or read book Walls, Borders, Boundaries written by Marc Silberman. This book was released on 2012-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that walls, borders, boundaries—and their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusion—engender their very opposite? This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining how walls, borders, and boundaries signify both interdependence and contact within sites of conflict and separation. Topics addressed range from the geopolitics of Europe’s historical and contemporary city walls to conceptual reflections on the intersection of human rights and separating walls, the memory politics generated in historically disputed border areas, theatrical explorations of border crossings, and the mapping of boundaries within migrant communities.
Author : Dr Olga Sasunkevich
Release : 2015-12-28
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Informal Trade, Gender and the Border Experience by : Dr Olga Sasunkevich
Download or read book Informal Trade, Gender and the Border Experience written by Dr Olga Sasunkevich. This book was released on 2015-12-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism - cross-border petty trade and smuggling - as the history of a practice in daily life from a gendered perspective, this book considers how changes in these practices in a particular border region, between Belarus and Lithuania, have been accompanied, and to some extent provoked, by changes in the border regime. It looks at how the selective openness of the Belarus-Lithuania border worked during different periods over the last twenty years and how it influenced the involvement of different social groups in shuttle trade practices. Foremost, this book considers how political borders implement and/or intensify social boundaries and suggests that the selective openness of political borders, a prerequisite for the existence of female shuttle trade activities, is primarily built upon people’s social characteristics. However, it claims that what can be seen as the grounds for growing inequality at a global level, at a local one may have an important resourceful meaning for various social groups including those usually perceived as disadvantaged, such as widowed female retirees or unemployed single women with children.
