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| Title: |
Bending Borders and Emerging Transnational Spaces |
| Authors: |
Cheng, Xiangming |
| Keywords: |
Boderlands
Global Economy
Asia-Pacific |
| Issue Date: |
2005-Mar-18 |
| Series Name / Report no.: |
Transnational Seminar Series |
| Abstract / Summary: |
Like wars, nationalist aspirations, and the natural rerouting of great rivers,
globalization changes the world’s borders by bending and stretching them
out of shape and thus creating new transnational spaces. State borders, which
on maps define political boundaries, no longer draw the line in people’s lives
they once did. Often, borders are still where states interdict goods, people, and
information, legal or otherwise, but they are just as importantly where trade—
including the exit and entrance of people, together with their skills and
knowledge—is most intense. During times of war, even desolate borders, if not
successfully closed, grow hyperactive with the swapping of goods, human beings,
intelligence, and creeds. Borders continue to contain self-described
national populations and self-described national activity, but the resurgence
of myriad ethnic groups and regional cultures is pushing and stretching
their limits. New power centers with their own identities are springing out of
once politically trivial landscapes. Smaller, peripheral cities and towns near
newly active borders are growing into important and prosperous centers. |
| URI: |
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3515 |
| Type of Resource: |
text |
| Genre of Resource: |
conference paper |
| Appears in Collections: |
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