Spectral Borders: History, neighbourliness and discord on the Polish-Belarusian frontier - Hardcover
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Spectral Borders: History, neighbourliness and discord on the Polish-Belarusian frontier - Hardcover
Spectral Borders: History, neighbourliness and discord on the Polish-Belarusian frontier - Hardcover
$136.80
by Aimée Joyce (Author)
Based on ethnographic research conducted in a town on the Polish-Belarussian border, this book examines borders and the lingering echoes of conflict. Using hauntology as a guiding framework to understand how people live amidst the histories and reverberations of conflicts, the author investigates the role that landscape, with its material presences and absences, plays in evoking and maintaining the border. The ethnography probes themes of ethnicity, religious practice, memory and space, investigating the border as a dynamic social process.
By immersing herself in the everyday lives of the borderland, Joyce unravels how traces - lingering imprints of the past - shape local relationships in the present, influencing shared understandings of history and the future. Introducing the concept of the spectral border as a lens to reveal the ambiguous presence of afterlives and memories tied to a historical boundary, the book unveils its present-day ghostly forms in the local ideas and practices of neighbourliness at the heart of borderland identity. Spectral Borders interrogates the use and limitations of these practices by exploring points of tension, where the meanings and uses of 'being a neighbour' and 'being from the borderland' are tested and challenged. In doing so, the book raises important questions about how conviviality is created and managed in a place with a long and unresolved history marked by ethnic and religious violence, war, and civil unrest.
Number of Pages: 218
Dimensions: 0.56 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Publication Date: February 12, 2024
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