AHR Conversation: Walls, Borders, and Boundaries in World History

Historia de dos ciudades de frontera. Antequera, Pamplona y la movilización de recursos para la guerra en la Monarquía Hispánica (ca. 1500-1530)

“…Analizando la trayectoria divergente de ambas ciudades como contribuyentes al esfuerzo colectivo que supuso la configuración del imperio podremos comprender mejor como la construcción 2. Conklin Akbari et al, (2017): 1501-1553. 3.…”

Recent geohistorical research on boundary‐making. Challenging conventional narratives on borders and modern state‐building

“…Nevertheless, recent methodological transformations within historical studies, and more particularly the rejection in Global History of the primacy of national perspectives and correlated historiographical approaches structured around the nation (Amelina et al, 2012;Faist, 2012), have been key to laying the foundations for the comparison of different boundary-making processes (Akbari et al, 2017;Mog, 2017). In that sense, historians have come to display highly micro and localised approaches to transregional and global processes (Di Fiore & Meriggi, 2013;Soen et al, 2017).…”

Migrations and Borders: Practices and Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Europe from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century

“…In this process, borders came to denote a clear-cut physical boundary around a territory inhabited by an equally clearly defined community of citizens. Only in the late 1990s did historians begin questioning the stability and predominance of nation-state borders (Akbari et al 2017;Hämäläinen and Truett 2011;Osterhammel 1998). Since then, several studies have drawn attention to different and often conflicting conceptions of political and social order in empires or at the local and regional levels.…”

“…Building on these current debates, this special issue examines multifaceted border logics and transformations in the context of migrations in Europe from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, particularly strengthening a temporal perspective on migration and bordering processes (Akbari et al 2017;Hurd et al 2017). Research on global history inspired by postcolonial studies has provided important new insights about how migration has been controlled in the past.…”

“…In border and migration studies, these categories of social inequality should be analyzed more extensively as closely connected to bordering processes (e.g. Akbari et al 2017;Altink and Weedon 2010). Häfner's case study shows that Tsarist migration control was specifically geared towards regulating the movement of peasants.…”