Nation, state and identity at international borders

Wilson, Thomas M.; Donnan, Hastings

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“…Ferguson 1999, 211-21;Hannerz 1996; see also Das and Poole 2003;Gidwani and Sivaramakrishnan 2003;Gupta 1992;Pollock 2004;Tsing 2005;Van Schendel 2002b;Wilson and Donnan 1998). As a result of these debates, there is now a wider recognition among anthropologists of the ways in which open-ended subjectivities may emerge from rural-rural migrations as much as they do from transnational movement (Gidwani and Sivaramakrisnan 2003).…”

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Muslim Cosmopolitans? Transnational Life in Northern Pakistan

Марсден

2008

J of Asian Stud

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This article explores the importance of transnational forms of Muslim cultural identity in northern Pakistan. By documenting the dynamism of a transnational form of Muslim identity that encompasses people belonging to a wide range of ethnic communities and Islamic doctrinal traditions, as well as extending across countries whose Muslim peoples have experienced the differential effects of their incorporation into both the Soviet Union and British India, the author seeks to challenge the work of Islam specialists who emphasize the centrality of “globalizing modernity” to the making of contemporary forms of Muslim identity. In contrast, this article builds on historical accounts of premodern forms of Muslim cosmopolitanism, notably Engseng Ho's study of Hadrami Muslim scholars who saw themselves as active creators of a universal world structured around the transregional ideals of their faith in the expansive Indian Ocean trading world. Building on this and other work on cosmopolitanism, the author documents the ways in which older experiences of mobility in this politically sensitive region of the world influence villagers' present-day engagements with globalizing processes. The ethnographic focus is on the ways in which Sunni and Shi'a Ismai'li Chitrali Muslims interacted with refugees into their region from Afghanistan and Tajikistan between 1979 and 2002, a time when both countries were experiencing violent civil and international conflict.

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Muslim Cosmopolitans? Transnational Life in Northern Pakistan

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2008

J of Asian Stud

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“…The contemporary anthropology of state borders and borderlands gained momentum with Wilson and Donnan (1998), who focused on politics of representation, redefinition and resistance in border zones. Following this approach, Michael Rösler and Tobias Wendl argued that "located at the fringes of nation-states, borderlands usually lack precise boundaries and are more exposed to foreign, trans-border influences and cross-border movements than are the heartlands".…”

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Centering Borders and Borderlands: The Evidence from Africa

Hoehne

Feyissa

2013

Violence on the Margins

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“…52 It is precisely this danger that the pioneering anthropologists of borderland studies, Wilson and Donnan, warn of in insisting that their discipline can remind the social sciences that nations and states, and their institutions, are composed of people who cannot and should not be reduced to the images which are constructed by the state, the media or of any other groups who wish to represent them. 53 Contending that ethnography is an apt approach for assaying the dynamics of borderland experience and the negotiation of identities along boundaries, 54 they use it to highlight 'the subversive economy', including the smuggling of goods. 55 For border peoples the boundary is a barrier, but it is also a resource and an opportunity, as, obviously, the border itself is the pre-requisite for smuggling to occur.…”

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Performance, Representation and the Economics of Border Control in Uzbekistan

Megoran

Raballand

Bouyjou³

2005

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This article explores the contradictions and intersections between the performative and economic aspects of state boundary control.From 1999 onwards, Uzbekistan's formal trade with its neighbours declined dramatically, whilst cross-border smuggling mushroomed. This article examines these developments, using both an economic analysis, and a theoretical approach to the study of international boundaries derived from political geography, anthropology and 'borders theory'. Methodologically, it employs trade-flow analysis, discourse study and ethnography to construct an account of how an apparently economically counterproductive policy has symbolic and performative value to the state. The changes in trade patterns were largely due to the unilateral introduction of a new and highly disruptive border and customs control policy, which dramatically increased transportation costs, precipitating a growth in smuggling in which some state officials themselves colluded. Economically, whilst this policy would thus appear harmful to the state, the article suggests that border control policies also had a theatrical function related to the performance of national identity and the perpetuation of the incumbent regime. It concludes with policy recommendations addressed to both Central Asian states and international donors.

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Nation, state and identity at international borders

Cited by 157 publications

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Muslim Cosmopolitans? Transnational Life in Northern Pakistan

Muslim Cosmopolitans? Transnational Life in Northern Pakistan

Centering Borders and Borderlands: The Evidence from Africa

Performance, Representation and the Economics of Border Control in Uzbekistan

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