Violence on the Margins

Part I. Introducing a Borderland Perspective

1. Introduction: Border, Frontier and the Geography of Rule at the Margins of the State
Benedikt Korf, Timothy Raeymaekers

2. Geographies of Violence and Sovereignty: The African Frontier Revisited
Benedikt Korf, Tobias Hagmann, Martin Doevenspeck

3. Centering Borders and Borderlands: The Evidence from Africa
Markus Virgil Hoehne, Dereje Feyissa

Part II. The Border’s Rough Terrain: Violence, Security and the Border

4. Treading a Fine Line: State-Making and Conflict within Eastern Burma
Sylvia Brown

5. Navigating the Urban “In-Between Space”: Local Livelihood and Identity Strategies in Exploiting the Goma/Gisenyi Border
Karen Büscher, Gillian Mathys

Part III. The Border as Frontier: States, Sovereignty and Identity

6. Dangerous Divisions: Peace-Building in the Borderlands of Post-Soviet Central Asia
Christine Bichsel

7. State-Making and the Suspension of Law in India’s Northeast: The Place of Exception in the Assam-Nagaland Border Dispute
Bert Suykens

Part IV. “Bringing the State Back In”: Borders, War Economies and Peace Economies

8. Get It While You Can: Governance between Wars in the Uganda-South Sudan Borderland
Wolfgang Zeller

9. When Civil Wars Hibernate in Borderlands: The Challenges of the Casamance’s “Forgotten Civil War” to Cross-Border Peace and Security
Aboubakr Tandia

10. Epilogue: The View from the Border
Jonathan Goodhand

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Anthropology, African Politics, Asian Politics, Political Sociology, African Culture