Nationalism, boundaries, and violence

Millenium

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 553-584

  Conversi, Daniele ^a  

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EID: 0001089177     PISSN: 03058298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/03058298990280030901     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Frederick Barth, introduction to Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organisation of Culture Difference, ed. Frederick Barth (London: Allen and Unwin, 1969).
2. Nearly 25 years later, Barth himself acknowledged that 'the issue of cultural content versus boundary, as it was formulated, unintentionally served to mislead. Yes, it is a question of analysing boundary processes, not of enumerating the sum of content, as in an old-fashioned trait list'. See Frederick Barth, 'Enduring and Emerging Issues in the Analysis of Ethnicity', in The Anthropology of Ethnicity: Beyond 'Ethnic Groups and Boundaries', eds. Hans Vermeulen and Cora Govers (Amsterdam: Hct Spinhuis, 1994), 17-18.
3. In his concluding remarks, Barth affirms: 'I remember a perceptive discussant Who pointed out how my formulation of the problem made its solution logically impossible: one cannot handle something which changes boundaries and changes content at the same time'. 30. See also Gunnar Haaland. 'Cultural Content and Ethnic Boundaries', in The Ecology of Choise and Symbol: Essays in Honour of Frederick Barth, eds. Reidar Gronhaug. Gunnar Haaland. and Georg Henriksen (Bergen: Alma Mater Forlag. 1991).
4. For an example of this reading, see Sandra Wallman. 'The Application of Anthropological Theory to the Study of Boundary Process', in Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations, eds. David Mason and John Rex (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986).
5. See John Rex. Rex, (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1986). 91-98,
6. which contains a good critique of Wallman. Yet. Rex also views boundaries as 'infinitely flexible', defining them as situationally determined 'markers which might suit our interests in a particular context'. 93-95.
7. Stephen Cornell, 'The Variable Ties That Bind: Content and Circumstance in Ethnic Processes'. Ethnic and Racial Studies 19. no. 2 (1996): 265-89.
8. Richard Jenkin, Rethinking Ethnicity: Arguments and Explorations (London: Sage, 1997).
9. For bibliographical references on the anthropology of boundaries, see Hastings Donnan and Thomas W. Wilson. 'An Anthropology of Frontiers', in Border Approaches: Anthropological Perspectives on Frontiers. eds. Hastings Donnan and Thomas W. Wilson (Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 1994).
10. See also Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan. eds., Border Identities: Nation and State at International Frontiers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
11. For a review of border studies in linguistics and linguistic anthropology, see Bonnie Urciuoli, 'Language and Borders', Annual Review of Anthropology 24 (1995): 525-16.
12. For boundaries in archaeological studies, sec Kent G. Lightfoot and Antoinette Martinez, 'Frontiers and Boundaries in Archeological Perspective', Annual Review of Anthropology 24 (1995): 471-92.
13. See Stein Rokkan and Derek W. Urwin, Economy, Territory, Identity: Politics of West European Peripheries (London: Sage, 1983). Peripheries are defined as instances where at least one of the following conditions occur: distance, differences, and dependence. The periphery should be 'located at some distance from the dominant centre or centres, and its transactions with the latter are fraught with costs. A periphery is also different from the central areas on one or more scores. . .Finally, a periphery is dependent upon one or more centres in at least one of the three domains of behaviour. . .in political decision-making, in cultural standardization and in economic life', 3-4.
14. Rokkan and Urwin, Economy. Territory. Identity, 4.
15. John Agnew and Stuart Corbridge, Mastering Space: Hegemony, Territory, and International Political Economy (London: Routledge, 1995).
16. See also several essays in Political Geography: A Reader, ed. John Agnew (London: Edward Arnold. 1997).
17. For a review of these studies, see Robert. R. Alvarez, Jr. 'The Mexican-US Border: The Making of an Anthropology of Borderlands', Annual Review of Anthropology 24 (1995): 447-70.
18. Michael Kerney, 'Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire', Journal of Historical Sociology 4, no. 1 (1991): 51-74.
19. See John Agnew, David N. Livingstonc, and Alisdair Rogers, eds., Human Geography: An Essential Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).
20. On the deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation of politics, see Geopolitics 3, no. 1 (1998).
21. On the contribution of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, see Eleanor Kaufman and Kevin Jon Heller, Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics. Philosophy, and Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1998).
22. For an overview and critique of geographical approaches to boundaries, see David Newman and Aussi Paasi, 'Fences and Neighbours in the Postmodern World: Boundary Narratives in Political Geography', Progress in Human Geography 22, no. 2 (1998): 186-207.
23. Talcott Parsons, The Social System (London: Routledge, 1991).
24. See Vilfredo Pareto, The Mind and Society: A Treatise in General Sociology, vol. 4 (New York: AMS Press, 1935), 1740, para. 2412.