{"product_id":"challenging-borders-paul-mckenzie-jones-9781771994019","title":"Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences","description":"\u003cb\u003eAnalyzing the geographies of oppression and resistance from compelling new angles.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Borders are known for their paradoxical qualities. Sometimes they are shifting and porous, lines in the sand constituted more by subjective experience than by legal definition; at other times they harden into walls, are heavily securitized, and their primary function becomes keeping the unwanted out. \u003ci\u003eChallenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences \u003c\/i\u003esets out to explore the concrete, complex effects of borders on human aspirations and lives, while at the same time underscoring the diversity of individual encounters with these deceptively invisible lines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on insights from history, geography, Indigenous studies, political science, refugee and migration studies, the visual arts, and even physics, contributors to the collection examine the role of borders in the ongoing negotiation of national identities, in contested claims of sovereignty and belonging, in the tensions between freedom of movement and restrictions on entry, and in the use of violence in the name of security.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul McKenzie-Jones, Sheila McManus, Julie Young\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771994010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771994019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Athabasca University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Paul McKenzie-Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46451152060671,"sku":"9781771994019","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e5e68758-f42b-462f-a166-688f6cf8bf74.jpg?v=1735876610","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/challenging-borders-paul-mckenzie-jones-9781771994019","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}