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Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition
Michel Agier
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Description for Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition
Hardcover. The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DS; JFFN; JHM; JPA; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do we know about the border places these liminal zones between countries and continents that have become the focus of so much attention and anxiety today, and what do we know about the individuals who occupy these places? In this timely book, anthropologist Michel ... Read more
The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do we know about the border places these liminal zones between countries and continents that have become the focus of so much attention and anxiety today, and what do we know about the individuals who occupy these places? In this timely book, anthropologist Michel ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
451g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745696799
SKU
V9780745696799
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Michel Agier
Michel Agier is director of the French Institute of Development Research and a director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
Reviews for Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition
`In Borderlands, Michel Agier epitomizes what makes his standing unique in contemporary research: nothing less than the creation of a whole disciplinary field, empirical and theoretical, of urgent importance for our tragic present, the general anthropology of the displaced human in its multiple figures and locations, reversing traditional assessments of mobility and settlement, identity and strangeness, borders and ... Read more