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

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Thomas M. Wilson, Hastings Donnan
LIT Verlag Münster, 2005 - Broj stranica: 357
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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