Violence on the Margins: States, Conflict, and Borderlands

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Border, Frontier and the Geography of Rule at the Margins of the State....Pages 3-27
Geographies of Violence and Sovereignty: The African Frontier Revisited....Pages 29-54
Centering Borders and Borderlands: The Evidence from Africa....Pages 55-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Treading a Fine Line: State-Making and Conflict within Eastern Burma....Pages 87-117
Navigating the Urban “In-Between Space”: Local Livelihood and Identity Strategies in Exploiting the Goma/Gisenyi Border....Pages 119-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Dangerous Divisions: Peace-Building in the Borderlands of Post-Soviet Central Asia....Pages 145-165
State-Making and the Suspension of Law in India’s Northeast: The Place of Exception in the Assam-Nagaland Border Dispute....Pages 167-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Get It While You Can: Governance between Wars in the Uganda-South Sudan Borderland....Pages 193-217
When Civil Wars Hibernate in Borderlands: The Challenges of the Casamance’s “Forgotten Civil War” to Cross-Border Peace and Security....Pages 219-246
Epilogue: The View from the Border....Pages 247-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-289