Violence on the Margins

PART I: INTRODUCING A BORDERLAND PERSPECTIVE 1. Border, Frontier, and the Geography of Rule at the Margins of the State; Benedikt Korf and Timothy Raeymaekers 2. Geographies of Violence and Sovereignty: The African Frontier Revisited; Tobias Hagmann, Martin Doevenspeck, and Benedikt Korf 3. Centering Borders and Borderlands: The Evidence from Africa; Markus Virgil Hoehne and 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 Buscher and 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: Building Business and Bureaucracy between Wars in the Uganda-Sudan Borderland; Wolfgang Zeller 9. When Civil Wars Hibernate in Borderlands: The Challenges of the Casamance 'Forgotten Civil War' to Cross-Border Peace and Security; Aboubakr Tandia Epilogue: The View from the Border; Jonathan Goodhand