Ritual Landscapes and Borders within Rock Art Research: Papers in Honour of Professor Kalle Sognnes By Heidrun Stebergløkken, Ragnhild Berge, Eva Lindgaard, Helle Vangen Stuedal (eds.)
2015 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 1784911585 | PDF | 11 MB
Ritual landscapes and borders are recurring themes running through Professor Kalle Sognnes' long research career. This anthology contains 13 articles written by colleagues from his broad network in appreciation of his many contributions to the field of rock art research. The contributions discuss many different kinds of borders: those between landscapes, cultures, traditions, settlements, power relations, symbolism, research traditions, theory and methods.

Sabine von Löwis, "Post-Soviet Borders "
English | ISBN: 0367770083 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 9 MB

Continuation or Change? Borders and Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe: Landscape of Power Network, Military Organisation and Commerce edited by Piotr Pranke, Gregory Leighton, Łukasz Różycki
English | September 19, 2022 | ISBN: 1032212829, 1032212837 | True EPUB/PDF | 368 pages | 6/17.95 MB
This volume examines interdisciplinary boundaries and includes texts focusing on material culture, philological analysis, and historical research. What they all have in common are zones that lie in between, treated not as mere barriers but also as places of exchange in the early Middle Ages.

Old Borders, New Technologies: Reframing Film and Visual Culture in Contemporary Northern Ireland By Paula Blair
2014 | 271 Pages | ISBN: 3034309457 | PDF | 6 MB
Northern Ireland is now generally regarded to be a post-conflict region since the official end to three decades of violence in 1998. However, given some of the stipulations of the Good Friday Belfast Agreement, including the early release of politically motivated prisoners from jail, society in Northern Ireland remains in a state of flux, uncertainty and disagreement. This book presents four thematic studies revolving around the issues of imprisonment, surveillance, traumatic recall and myth-making in Northern Ireland. These studies examine the different ways in which artists and filmmakers are experimenting with film aesthetics and new media technologies to represent, re-present and invite engagement with the underlying anxieties that continue to trouble post-Agreement society. In doing so, the author argues for a reassessment of the critical analysis of film's convergence with other forms of visual art. Ultimately, the volume assesses the usefulness of such an approach in examining how artists and filmmakers experiment with diverse forms that open up space for discussion of the hidden and marginalized concerns in Northern Ireland's new, 'shared' society. This book was the winner of the 2012 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Film Studies.

Contested Borders: Territorialization, National Identity and «Imagined Geographies» in Albania (Nationalisms across the Globe) By Ilir Kalemaj
2014 | 267 Pages | ISBN: 3034317840 | PDF | 10 MB
This book argues that power struggles between internal and diasporic elites play a central role in the development of political agendas that have the potential to shift national borders. The author uses Albania as the primary case study, examining how the understanding of the Albanian nation has taken on varying geographical borders over time and why different Albanian communities have often had differing perceptions of the borders of the nation. On the basis of this case study, the author constructs a theoretical model that captures the dynamic of domestic versus international constraints on elite choices and analyses how this leads to the (re)construction of borders. The book explores the way in which competing elites manipulate national symbols to create the necessary environment for personal political gain, using both expansionist and contractionist versions of «virtual» borders that may or may not be congruent with internationally recognized borders.

Emma Lundgren Jörum, "Beyond Syria's Borders: A History of Territorial Disputes in the Middle East "
English | ISBN: 1784539732 | 2017 | 232 pages | EPUB | 914 KB
Lebanon, together with the province of Hatay in Turkey (containing Antakya) and the Golan Heights were all part of French mandate Syria, but are now all outside the boundaries of the modern Syrian state. The policies and reactions of Syria both to the loss of these territories and to the states that have either absorbed, annexed or emerged from them (Lebanon, Turkey and Israel) are the focus of Emma Jorum's book. Jorum uses the differences in policy and discourse when it comes to each of these three cases to highlight the nature of territorial dispute in the region, and the processes of state-building and nationalism more generally. Through the examination of Syria's policies concerning these lost territories, Jorum Descriptions and analyses Syrian-Turkish, Syrian-Lebanese and Syrian-Israeli relations, explaining why some losses have been pushed to one side and others remain at the forefront in Syria's international relations and diplomacy efforts.

Rob Aitken, "Fringe Finance: Crossing and contesting the borders of global capital "
English | ISBN: 0367599643 | 2020 | 242 pages | EPUB | 1230 KB
The most recent conversations about financial instability in International Political Economy have addressed the ongoing financial spasms of the past five years; a global financial spasm unleashed by the 2008 subprime debacle, ongoing Eurozone instability, and general price volatility in securities markets globally.

Carolina M Billings, "Leadership Without Borders: The Ultimate Guide to Empowerment, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1778253601 | EPUB | pages: 258 | 4.7 mb
Written by authors: Carolina M. Billings, Ean Price Murphy, Dr. Elisa Magill. Gina Marie De Leon, Johanna Beneteau, Laurie Smith, Leona Krasner, Dr. Lynne Adams, Melanie Herschorn, Mindy McManus, Rosanna Lamanna, Sallie Wagner, Simone Sloan, Siobhan Cunningham, Stacey Hall, and Youssef Skall

Invisible Borders in a Bordered World: Power, Mobility, and Belonging
by Alexander C. Diener

Frank Furedi, "Why Borders Matter"
English | ISBN: 0367416824 | 2020 | 202 pages | PDF | 21 MB
Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely connected to the debates surrounding the symbolic boundaries people need to guide on the issues of everyday life.