Bibliographic Information
- Title
- "Perspectives on the state borders in globalized Africa"
- Statement of Responsibility
- edited by Yuichi Sasaoka, Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo and Sayoko Uesu
- Publisher
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- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- Publication Year
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- 2022
- Book size
- 25 cm
- Series Name / No
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- : hbk
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Notes
Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: "Assessing the different kinds of borders between African nations, the contributors present a borderland and trans-region approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the peoples of the African continent. Africa faces rampant violence, terrorism, deterioration of water-energy-food provision, influxes of refugees and immigrants, and religious hatred under the trends of globalization. Solutions for these issues require new perspectives that are not attempted by conventional state building approaches. Statehood is limited in many places on the African continent, because many states are combined by loose political ties. African states' borders tend to be regarded as porous and fragile. However, as the contributors to this volume argue, it is possible that porous borders can contribute to cultural and socio-economic network construction beyond states and the creation of active borderlands by increasing people's mobility, contact, and trade. A must read for scholars of African studies,
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1130010909350713345
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- NII Book ID
- BC10523342
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- ISBN
- 9781032064338
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- LCCN
- 2021042988
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- Web Site
- https://lccn.loc.gov/2021042988
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Country Code
- uk
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- Title Language Code
- en
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- Place of Publication
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- London ; New York, NY
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- Subject
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- LCSH: Africa -- Boundaries
- LCSH: Borderlands -- Africa
- LCSH: Border security -- Africa
- LCSH: Transnationalism -- Africa
- LCSH: Transnationalism
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- Data Source
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- CiNii Books
- KAKEN