Borders, boundaries and statelessness

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    Abstract

    Borders are powerful symbols of state power, and they regulate the movement of people, commodities, capital and information between state territories. Boundaries express more than simple borders and include symbolic and social dimensions associated with borders or with no borders at all. Departing from the conventional paradigm that implicitly emphasises territorial sovereignty and spatial politics as central to the conceptualisation of border communities I focus on how communities conceptualise their own identities as living on the margins or on the borders of societies and boundaries.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationRoutledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh
    Editors Ali Riaz and Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman
    Place of PublicationLondon, New York
    PublisherRoutledge
    Pages402-413
    Edition1st
    ISBN (Print)9780415734615
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016

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