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Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states
and a highly contentious issue in social and political life. But controlling borders is about …

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is
accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are …

Abstract China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been interpreted as a strategy of
economic development using new infrastructure projects to intensify regional and global …

This paper expands on recent attempts to destabilise the static, bordered, and linear
framings that typify human geographical studies of place, territory, and time. In a world …

Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However,
the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of …

Foreboding declarations about contemporary urban trends pervade early twenty‐first
century academic, political and journalistic discourse. Among the most widely recited is the …

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Recent trends across Europe and America suggest that the liberal international order is
increasingly changing. The changes are evident in the rise of new nationalism following the …

The project behind this book started shortly after Gender and Nation (1997, Sage) was
published, although it took quite a few years before it was crystallized into this format. In a …