African Borderlands Bibliography
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Africa - General
Africa - General
Adejuyigbe, O (1989) “Identity and Characteristics of Borderlands in Africa.”, in A.I. Asiwaju and P.O. Adeniyi, eds. Borderlands in Africa. Lagos University Press.
Keywords: Identity
Adepoju, A. (1995) ‘Migration in Africa: An Overview’, in J. Baker and T. A. Aina, eds., The Migration Experience in Africa, Uppsala: NAI.
Keywords: Migration
AUBP (2013) 'From Barriers to Bridges: Collection of Official Texts on African Borders from 1963 to 2012', Addis Ababa: African Union Commission / Peace and Security Department Download
Keywords: AUBP,founding instruments,legal frameworks,policies on border management,strategic goals
AUBP (2013) 'Creation and Operation of Boundary Commissions in Africa: The User's Guide', Addis Ababa: African Union Commission / Peace and Security Department Download
Keywords: creating boundary commissions,relevant international legal concepts,responsibilities of boundary commissions,recommendations for operation of boundary commissions
AUBP (2013) 'Delimitation and Demarcation of Boundaries in Africa: The User's Guide', Addis Ababa: African Union Commission / Peace and Security Department Download
Keywords: border delimitation and demarcation,boundary maintenance
AUBP (2013) 'Installation of a Cross-Border Basic Service Infrastructure: The User's Guide', Addis Ababa: African Union Commission / Peace and Security Department Download
Keywords: cross-border cooperation,cross-border service infrastructure,cross-border health centre,implementation templates,Burkina Faso / Mali
AUBP (2013) 'Delimitation and Demarcation of Boundaries in Africa: General Issues and Case Studies', Addis Ababa: African Union Commission / Peace and Security Department Download
Keywords: border delimitation and demarcation,(socio-(political/legal/technical aspects of boundaries and boundary-making,African case studies,lexicon of boundary making,map accuracy standards
AUBP (2013) 'Delimitation and Demarcation of Boundaries in Africa: General Issues and Case Studies', Addis Ababa: African Union Commission / Peace and Security Department Download
Keywords: border delimitation and demarcation,(socio-)political/legal/technical aspects of boundaries and boundary-making,boundary information systems,African case studies,lexicon of boundary making,map accuracy standards
Asiwaju, A. (1976) Western Yorubaland Under European Rule: A Comparative Analysis of French and British Colonialism. New York: Humanities Press
Keywords: Colonialism,Yorubaland
Asiwaju, A. (2005) ‘The Border Areas Initiative, An In-depth Analysis of Relevant UN, EU, World Bank and ECOWAS Reports, Submitted to UN Office for West Africa, Dakar, July 2005.
Asiwaju, A. (2003/2004) ‘Comparative African History: Prospects and Challenges.’ Special Issue of Afrika Zamani, No. 11 & 12, 6
Asiwaju, A. (2003) ‘Boundaries and African Integration: Essays in Comparative History and Policy Analysis’, Lagos: PANAF Publishing Inc.
Asiwaju, A. (2001) ‘The Implementation of ECOWAS Treaty and Protocols: The Role of Workers and Civil Society in the Context of a Comparison with the History of the European Union (OATUU Basic Document, OATUU/OTUWA/ECOWAS Workshop on ECOWAS Treaty and Protocols, Abuja, Jan 25 – 26
Asiwaju, A. (2000) ‘Fragmentation or Integration: What Future for African Boundaries’? in Pratt, M.A. and J.A. Brown, eds. Borderlands Under Stress, London: Kluwer Law International.
Asiwaju, A. (1997) ‘Borders and Border Regions: Focus on Africa, A Comparative and Multidisciplinary Bibliography,’ Nairobi: U.N. Centre for Regional Development Africa Office.
Asiwaju, A.I., Ogun G.O. and Ojukwu E.C.S (eds., 2006) Cross Border Crimes And Community Policing: Prospects and Challenges in Nigeria-Benin Cross-Border Areas of Ogun State. Proccedings of a Nigeria-Benin Binational Workshop, February 24-26, 2006. Imeko: African University Institute.
Barth, F., dir. (1969), “Ethnic Groups and Boundaries”, Oslo
Keywords: Anthropology,boundary crossing,identity
From Empiricism to Theory in African Border Studies, Special issue, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 25.2. 2010
Dobler, G. (2009) 'Oshikango: The Dynamics of Growth and Regulation in a Namibian Boom Town', Journal of Southern African Studies, 35(1), pp. 115-131
Keywords: Namibia,Angola,Osikango,Boom Town
Donaldson, J. W. (2009) ‘Tangible reality? Challenging the rigidity of the 1964 Cairo declaration’. Printout ABORNE conference paper, Johannesburg.
Engel, U. and Nugent, P. (2010) Respacing Africa, Amsterdam: Brill.
Herbst, J. (1989) 'The Creation and Maintenance of National Boundaries in Africa', International Organisation, 43(4):673-692
Impey, Angela (2008). 'Sound, memory and dis/placement: Exploring sound, song and performance as oral history in the southern African borderlands.' Oral History Journal, UK (Spring 2008) Vol. 36 No.1:33-44
Katzenellenbogen, S. (1996) “It didn’t Happen at Berlin” in Paul Nugent and A.I. Asiwaju, eds., African Boundaries. London: Pinter
Kehinde, M. (2008) ‘Les Frontières dans la Conception Africaine Précoloniale: Mythes et Réalité’. Revue Ethique et Societe. Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 65-84
Kopytoff, I. (1987) The African Frontier. The Reproduction of traditional African societies. Bloomington: Indiana UP.
Keywords: Traditional Societies
Korf, Benedikt and Timothy Raeymaekers (2013): “Introduction: Border, Frontier and the Geography of rule at the Margins of the State.” In Violence on the Margins. States, Conflict, and Boderlands, edited by Benedikt Korf and Timothy Raeymaekers, 3-28. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Keywords: frontier,theory,conflict,margins
Larémont R. R. (2005) ‘Borders, States, and Nationalism’. In borders, nationalism and the African state, R. R. Laremont, ed., London: Lynne Reiner.
Keywords: Nationalism,State
Lefebvre, Camille (2011) “We have Tailored Africa: French Colonialism and the ’Artificiality’ of Africa’s Borders in the Interwar Period.” Journal of Historical Geography 37: 191-202.
Keywords: french,colonialism,history
Marcelino, P.F. and Farahi, H. (2011) 'Transitional African Spaces in Comparative Analysis: inclusion, exclusion and informality in Morocco and Cape Verde', in Third World Quarterly, Special Issue: Political Civility in the Middle East, Vol. 32, No. 5, Taylor & Francis, pp 883-904. Download
Keywords: West Africa,North Africa,Sahara,Morocco,Cape Verde,Gibraltar,Tangier,Mindelo,transitional space,mixed migration,transit migration,irregular migration,informality,liminality,inclusion,exclusion,integration
Mbembe, A. (2000) 'At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa', Public Culture, 12(1) pp. 259-284.
Keywords: Sovereignty,Territoriality
Nugent, P. (ed). (2007) ‘Citizenship in Africa: Creating Nations, Making Strangers.’ Co-edited with Sara Dorman and Dan Hammett, Leiden: Brill.
Nugent, P. and A.I. Asiwaju (eds). (1996) ‘African Boundaries: Barriers, Conduits and Opportunities’, Frances Pinter (Translated into Spanish and published under the title of ‘Fronteras Africanas: Barreras, Canales y Opportunidades by Edicions Bellaterra, Barcelona in 1998)
Raeymaekers (2011 forthcoming) African Boundaries and the New Capitalist Frontier, in: Wilson, T.M. and Donnan, H. (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Border Studies, Basingstoke, Blackwell.
ROQUE, A.C. (2012) “Cartografar fronteiras nos finais do século XIX questões em torno da demarcação e delimitação da fronteira entre Moçambique e o Transvaal”, Actas do IV Simpósio Luso Brasileiro de Cartografia Histórica, Porto 9-12 Novembro. Download
Keywords: Mozambique,South Africa,Transval,Borders,Cartography,Scientific missions
ROQUE, A.C. (2009) “Rethinking Borders in South Mozambique”. Comunicação apresentada à ABORNE Conference on How is Africa Transforming Border Studies?, Johannesburg, 10-14 de Setembro. Download
Sahlins, P. (1988), «The Nation in the Village: State-Building and Communal Struggles in the Catalan Borderland during the Eighteenth and Nineteeths Centuries», "The Journal of Modern History", vol. 60, n° 2, june, pp. 234-263 Download
Keywords: Cerdaña,France,Spain
Seymour, LJM (2013) "Sovereignty, territory and authority: boundary maintenance in contemporary Africa", Critical African Studies, pp Download
Keywords: Africa,borders,sovereignty,authority,secession,separatism
Tandia, Aboubakr (2012), "How African Civil Wars Hibernate: The Warring Communities of the Senegal-Guinea Bissau Borderlands in the face of the Casamance forgotten Civil War and the Bissau-Guinean State Failure", UBUNTU: Journal of Conflict Transformation, Vol 1, Nos 1-2, (2012), pp 36-76. Download
Keywords: Casamance-West Africa-Civil War-State Failure-Senegal-Guinea Bissau-Borderland
Tandia, Aboubakr (2012), "The Genius of Suffering: The Paradox of an Alienated Border Regime: Refugee integration of Mauritanian Refugees in Cross-border Dagana (Senegal-Mauritania), in Crossing African Borders: Migration and Mobility (eds Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues), Centre of African Studies-ISCTE/UIL, ISBN: -22-9 [Digital Edition], pp 97-110. Download
Keywords: Borderland-Border regime-Refugee-Refugee regime-Integration-Senegal-Mauritania-Dagana
Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (ed.) Crossing African Borders: migration and mobility, Center of African Studies (CEA)/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon: University Institute of Lisbon. e-book http://hdl.handle.net/10071/4366, ISBN: -22-9 Download
Keywords: ABORNE conference; Borders; Migration; Africa
Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (2012) Introduction: crossing African borders – migration and mobility, In Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (ed.) Crossing African Borders: migration and mobility (pp. 4-14), Center of African Studies (CEA)/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon: University Institute of Lisbon. e-book http://hdl.handle.net/10071/4366, ISBN: -22-9 Download
Keywords: Conference,ABORNE,Borders,Migration
Retaillé D, Walther O. 2011. Spaces of uncertainty: a model of mobile space in the Sahel. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 32(1): 85-101. Download
Keywords: mobility,space,Sahel
Walther O. (2009) 'A mobile idea of space. Traders, patrons and the cross-border economy in Sahelian Africa', Journal of Borderlands Studies 24: 34-46.
Keywords: Sahel,Space
Yearwood P (1993) ‘“In a Casual Way with a Blue Pencil”: British Policy and the Partition of Kamerun, 1914-1919’, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne Des Études Africaines, 27, 218-244
Yearwood, P (1990) ‘Great Britain and the Repartition of Africa, 1914–19’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 18, 316–341
West Africa
West Africa
Asiwaju, A. (2004) ‘Frontier in Egba History: Abeokuta, Dahomey and Yewaland in the 19th Century’, Lagos Historical Review, vol. 4: 18-48.
Asiwaju, A. (2003) ‘Cross-Boundary Protest Migrations and Settlements in Colonial West Africa: The Example of the Western Yoruba Astride the Nigeria-Dahomey (Benin) Border’ in Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Odile Goerg, Isiaka Mande, Faranirina Rajaonah (eds) Être Étranger et Migrant en Afrique au XXe Siècle: Enjeux Identitaires et Modes d’ Insertion, Paris: L’Harmatan 359 – 374
Asiwaju, A. (2001) ‘West African Transformations: Comparative Impacts of French and British Colonialism,’ Lagos and Oxford: Malthouse Press Ltd.
Chalfin, B. (2010) Neoliberal frontiers. An ethnography of sovereignty in West Africa, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press.
Keywords: West Africa,Ghana,State,Sovereignty
Chalfin, B. (2001) 'Border Zone Trade and the Economic Boundaries of the State in North-East Ghana', in: Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 71, No. 2, Markets in a New Era, pp. 202-224.
Keywords: Commerce,Trade,Ghana
Chilson, P. "Romancing the Archivist: Convincing a skeptic that I wasn't a spy." www.TheSmartSet.com. Drexel University. Philadelphia, USA. August 22 2008 Download
Keywords: Chilson,archivist,West African borders,Mali,Senegal,thesmartset
Chilson, P. "The Border: In Africa, lines are often blurry." www.TheSmartSet.com. Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. November 30 2007 Download
Keywords: Chilson,border,Zegoua,Mali,Cote d'Ivoire,thesmartset
Evans, M. (2005) 'Insecurity or isolation? Natural resources and livelihoods in Lower Casamance'. Canadian Journal of African Studies 39(2): 282-312.
Evans, M. (2004) Senegal: Mouvement des forces démocratiques de la Casamance (MFDC). Africa Programme Armed Non-State Actors Project Briefing Paper no. 2. London: Chatham House. Download
Evans, M. (2003) 'Ni paix ni guerre: the political economy of low-level conflict in the Casamance.' In Collinson, S. (ed.) Power, livelihoods and conflict: case studies in political economy analysis for humanitarian action. Humanitarian Policy Group Report no. 13: 37-52. London Overseas Development Institute. Download
Gaibazzi, P. (2014), Visa problem: certification, kinship, and the production of ‘ineligibility’ in the Gambia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20: 38–55.
Keywords: border,documentary practices,gambia,migration policies,migration,soninke,Europe
Harnischfeger, Johannes (2011): Igbo Nationalism and Biafra. Unpublished manuscript.
Kane, Mamadou S. (2012) Identity Strategies, Cultural Practices and Citizenship Recovery: Mauritanian refugees in the Senegal Valley, In Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (ed.) Crossing African Borders: migration and mobility (pp. 44-57), Center of African Studies (CEA)/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon: University Institute of Lisbon. e-book http://hdl.handle.net/10071/4366, ISBN: -22-9 Download
Keywords: Senegal,Mauritania,Migration,Borders,identity
KANE, M. S., 2011. Identity Strategies, Cultural Practices and Citizenship Recovery: the Mauritanian Refugees in the Senegal Valley. Download
Keywords: Border – Refugees – Senegal-Mauritania –Identity strategies – Cultural practices – Citizenship recovery.
Kehinde, M. (2010) Implications of Colonially Determined Boundaries in (West) Africa: the Yoruba of Nigeria and Benin in Perspective. Doctoral thesis, Durham University. Download
Kehinde, M. (2007) ‘Comparative Impacts of the Colonial Partition on the Yoruba of Nigeria and Benin’. Global South, 4(2), pp 7-15 Download
Keywords: Nigeria,Benin
Lentz, C. (2003) 'This is Ghanaian territory: land conflicts on a West African border', American Ethnologist, 30(2), pp. 273–89.
Marcelino, P.F. (2011) The new migration paradigm of transitional African spaces. Inclusion, exclusion, liminality and economic competition in transit countries: a case study on the Cape Verde Islands, Saarbruecken, LAP Lambert.
Keywords: Cape Verde,West Africa,ECOWAS,Senegal,Upper Guinea,transit migration,mixed migration,immigration policy,inclusion,exclusion,integration
Marcelino, P.F. (2011, forthcoming), 'Processes of arrival, integration, and exclusion: Exploring a new migratory corridor in West Africa'. In Marcelino, P.F. (ed.), Home in Motion: The Shifting Grammars of Self and Stranger, Oxford, InterDisciplinary Press. Download
Keywords: Transit migration,mixed migration,irregular migration,Cape Verde,West Africa,ECOWAS,CEDEAO,integration,exclusion,inclusion,Boavista.
Marcelino, P.F. (2009) 'Postcolonial identity, transition, and challenges to tradition in Cape Verde', in Articulate - Undergraduate Research Applied to International Development, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall), East Lansing (MI), Scout Banana / Michigan State University. Download
Keywords: Cape Verde,West Africa,irregular migration,space wars,social change,liminality,postcolonial,hybridity,integration,exclusion
Meagher, K. (2003)‘A Back Door to Globalisation? Structural Adjustment, Globalisation and Transborder Trade in West Africa’ Review of African Political Economy 30(95).
Miles, W.F.S. (2015) "Postcolonial Borderland Legacies of Anglo–French Partition in West Africa." African Studies Review 58:3 (2015), pp. 191-213.
Keywords: Borders,borderlands,boundaries,colonialism,decolonization,partition ;
Miles, W. F. S. (1994). Hausaland divided: Colonialism and independence in Nigeria and Niger. Ithaca, NY, London: Cornell University Press.
Keywords: Niger,Nigeria,Colonialism,Independence
Miles, William F.S. (2010) 'Focus on Peter Chilson: Francophone Africa Border Crossing in Fiction and Travel Literature' Unpublished review of several books by fiction writer Peter Chilson
Miles, W.F.S. (2005) “Development, Not Division: Local versus External Perceptions of the Niger-Nigeria boundary.” Journal of Modern African Studies 43:2 (2005), pp. 297-320.
Miles, W.F.S. (2003) “Shari’a as De-Africanization: Evidence from Hausaland.” Africa Today 50:1,pp. 50-75.
Miles, W.F.S. (1994) Hausaland Divided: Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger. Cornell University Press.
Miles, W.F.S. (1993) "The Reality and Promise of Partition in Hausaland." In The Nigeria-Niger Transborder Cooperation, edited by A.I. Asiwaju and B.M. Barkindo. Lagos: National Boundary Commission, pp. 111-121.
Miles, W.F.S. (1991) "Nationalism Versus Ethnic Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa." American Political Science Review 85:2 (June 1991), pp. 393-403 [co-authored with David Rochefort]. Reprinted in Nikolaos Zahariadis, ed., Theory, Case, and Method in Comparative Politics. Fort Worth:Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1997.
Miles, W.F.S. (1987) "Partitioned Royalty: The Evolution of Hausa Chiefs in Nigeria and Niger." The Journal of Modern African Studies 25:2 (1987), pp. 233-258.
Miles, W.F.S. (1986) "Self-Identity, Ethnic Affinity, and National Consciousness: An Example from Rural Hausaland." Ethnic and Racial Studies 9:4 (October, 1986), pp. 427-444.
Nugent, P. (2007) ‘Migracíon, fronteras y creación del Estado: comparación de los
patrones del África Occidentale y del Sur", Nova Africa vol. 20: 7-26.
Nugent, P. (2007) (forthcoming). " Cyclical history in the Gambia/Casamance
borderlands: refuge, settlement and Islam from c.1880 to the present",
Journal of African History, 3.
Nugent, P. (2005) "Borderland identities in comparative perspective: chieftaincy, religion and belonging along the Ghana-Togo and Senegal-Gambia borders, in Per Hernaes (ed.), The Traditional and the Modern in West African (Ghanaian) History: Case-Studies on Co-existence and Interaction, Trondheim University of Science and Technology.
Nugent, P. (2005) "A regional melting-pot: the Ewe and their neighbours in the Ghana-Togo borderlands", pp.29-43 in The Ewe of Togo and Benin, (ed.)
Benjamin Lawrance. Accra: Woeli publishers.
Nugent, P. (2004) ‘Africa Since Independence: A Comparative History’, Palgrave Macmillan.
Nugent, P. (2004) "Ghana-Togo" in Peter Calvert (ed.) Border and Territorial Disputes of the World. John Harper Publishing: 31-36.
Nugent, P. (2003) Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens of the Ghana-Togo Frontier: The Lie of the Borderlands Since 1914. James Currey, Ohio University Press and Sub-Saharan Publishers.
Nugent, P. (2000) "A few lesser peoples': the Central Togo Minorities and their Ewe neighbours", in Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent (eds.), Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention. Macmillan & St. Martin's Press.
Nugent, P. (2000) "The art of dissimulation: smugglers, informers and the Preventive Service along the Ghana-Togo frontier, 1920-1939", in C. Dubois, M. Michel and P. Soumille (eds.) Frontières plurielles, frontières conflictuelles en Afrique subsaharienne. L'Harmattan.
Nugent, P. and Lentz, C. (2000) Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention. Macmillan & St.Martin's Press.
Samaila, A. (2012), ‘Cross-border Trade Relations and Security Implication in Nigeria’s North-West International Border Areas’
Keywords: Cross-border trade,Security,Nigeria
Samaila, A. (2010) 'Colonialism and Growth of Border Areas in Nigeria and Niger Republic: The Example of Illela-Konni Border'
Keywords: Colonialism,Border Areas,Nigeria,Niger
Samaila, A. (2010) ‘Structural Adjustment, Trade liberalization and the livestock Economy along the Nigeria-Niger Border: A study of Illela-Konni'
Keywords: Structural Adjustment,Livestock,Economy,Nigeria,Niger
Tandia, Aboubakr (2012) Beyond the ‘Genius of Suffering’: the paradox of an alienated border regime - refugee integration in cross-border Dagana (Senegal-Mauritania), In Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (ed.) Crossing African Borders: migration and mobility (pp. 97-110), Center of African Studies (CEA)/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon: University Institute of Lisbon. e-book http://hdl.handle.net/10071/4366, ISBN: -22-9 Download
Keywords: Borders,Refugee,Mauritania,Senegal
Tandia, A. (2010) 'Borders and Borderlands Identities: A Comparative Perspective of Cross-Border Governance in the Neighbourhoods of Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau', African Nebula, Issue, September, pp. 19-42. Download
Keywords: Border,Borderland,Western Senegambia,Identity,Cross-border governance
Walther O. 2012. Traders, agricultural entrepreneurs and the development of cross-border regions in West Africa. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 25(3-4): 123-141.
Keywords: borders,entrepreneurs,West Africa
Walther O. 2012. Sons of the soil and conquerors who came on foot: The historical evolution of a West African border region. African Studies Quarterly 13(1-2): 75-92. Download
Keywords: history,borderlands,West Africa
Walther O. (2010). "Economie et frontières en Afrique sahélienne: un usage clientéliste de la partition coloniale", in Igué J.O, Fodouop K, Aloko-N’Guessan J. (eds) Maîtrise de l’espace et développement en Afrique. Etat des lieux. Paris: Karthala: 125-137.
Keywords: West Africa,borders,economy
Central Africa
Central Africa
Büscher, K., & Vlassenroot, K. (2010). 'Humanitarian presence and urban development: new opportunities and contrasts in Goma, DRC.' Disasters, 34(2), 256-273.
Keywords: Goma,D.R.C,NGO
Bennafla, K. (2002) Le commerce frontalier en Afrique centrale: acteurs, espaces, pratiques. Paris : Karthala.
Bennafla, K. (1998) 'La fin des territoires nationaux? État et commerce frontalier en Afrique centrale', in: Politique africaine, n° 73 (mars), pp. 25-49.
Keywords: Central Africa,Commerce,State
De Boeck, F. (2000) 'Borderland Breccia: The Mutant Hero in the Historical Imagination of a Central-African Diamond Frontier', Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 1:2.
Keywords: Diamonds,Commerce,Central Africa
Deng, F. (2005) ‘Sudan’s Turbulent Road to Nationhood’, in borders, nationalism and the African state, R. R. Laremont, ed., London: Lynne Reiner
Keywords: Sudan,Nationalism
Doevenspeck, M. (2011) 'Constructing the border from below: Narratives from the Congolese-Rwandan state boundary', Political Geography doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.03.003
Gordon, D. (2006) ‘Nachituti's Gift: Economy, Society and Environment in Central Africa,’ Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Gordon, D. (2001) ‘Owners of the Land and Lunda Lords: Colonial Chiefs in the Borderlands of Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo,’ International Journal of African Historical Studies 34(2): 315-37.
Gormo, Jean (2012) Forced Migration of Chadians in the Faro Division in Northern Cameroon (1980-2010), In Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (ed.) Crossing African Borders: migration and mobility (pp. 71-82), Center of African Studies (CEA)/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon: University Institute of Lisbon. e-book http://hdl.handle.net/10071/4366, ISBN: -22-9 Download
Keywords: Migration,Chad,Cameroon,Forced migration
MacGaffey, J. (1991) The Real Economy of Zaire. The Contribution of Smuggling & Other Unofficial Activities to National Wealth, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Keywords: Zaire,D.R.C,Smuggling
Newbury, D.S. (1980) 'Lake Kivu Regional Trade in the nineteenth Century', Journal des africanistes, 50(2), pp. 7-30.
Keywords: Kivu,Commerce,D.R.C
Raeymaekers, T. (2010) Protection for sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo–Ugandan Border, Development and Change, 40(4), pp. 563-587.
Raeymaekers, T. (2009). The silent encroachment of the frontier: politics of transborder trade in the Semliki Valley (Congo-Uganda). Political Geography, 28, 55-65.
Keywords: Semliki,Uganda,D.R.C
Raeymaekers, T. (2007) The Power of protection. Governance and transborder trade on the Congo-Ugandan frontier, Phd Thesis, University of Ghent.
Keywords: Commerce,Trade,Governance,D.R.C,Uganda
Roitman, J. (forthcoming) ‘A Successful Life in the Illegal Realm: Smugglers and Road Bandits in the Chad Basin’ in P. Geschiere, B. Meyer, P. Pels, eds., Readings on Modernity in Africa. IAI-James Currey-Indiana University Press.
Roitman, J. (2007) ‘The Right to Tax: Economic Citizenship in the Chad Basin’, special issue of Citizenship Studies edited by Andrew Gordon and Trevor Stack, vol. 2, no. 2, May.
Roitman, J. (2006) ‘The Ethics of Illegality in the Chad Basin’ in Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff (eds.) Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, University of Chicago Press.
Roitman, J. (2005) Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa, Princeton University Press.
Roitman, J. (2005) ‘Modes of Governing : the Garrison-Entrepot’ in A. Ong and S. Collier, eds. Global Anthropology: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Athnropological Problems, Blackwell.
Roitman, J. (2004) ‘Les recompositions du bassin du lac Tchad’, Politique africaine 94, June: 7-22.
Roitman, J. (2004) ‘Power is not Sovereign: The Transformation of Regulatory Authority in the Chad Basin’, in B. Hibou, ed. The Privatisation of the State, London, Hurst.
Roitman, J. (2004) ‘Productivity in the Margins: the Reconstitution of State Power in the Chad Basin’, in D. Poole et V. Das, eds., Anthropology at the Margins of the State, Santa Fe, School of American Research Press.
Roitman, J. (2003) ’Unsanctioned Wealth; or, the Productivity of Debt in Northern Cameroon’, Public Culture 15, 2:211-237.
Roitman, J. (2001) ‘New Sovereigns? Regulatory Authority in the Chad Basin’, in T. Callaghy, R. Kassimir, and R. Latham, eds., Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa : Global-Local Networks of Power, Cambridge University Press: 240-263.
Roitman, J. (2001) ‘Être ‘Off-Shore’: l’immersion de la Guinée Équatoriale dans les enjeux régionaux et internationaux’, Politique africaine, 80, March:121-142.
Scorgie, L. (2013). 'Prominent peripheries: the role of borderlands in Central Africa's regionalized conflict.' Journal of Critical African Studies, 5 (1), 32-47. Download
Scorgie, L. (2011). 'Peripheral pariah or regional rebel? the Allied Democratic Forces conflict in the Uganda/Congo borderland.' The Round Table, 100(412), 79-93.
Tati, Gabriel (2012) Territory and Border Crossing for Livelihoods among (Voluntary and Forced) Migrants from DRC to Swaziland: the re-imagining of a borderless spatial system, In Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (ed.) Crossing African Borders: migration and mobility (pp. 111-129), Center of African Studies (CEA)/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon: University Institute of Lisbon. e-book http://hdl.handle.net/10071/4366, ISBN: -22-9 Download
Keywords: Migration,DRC,Borders,Swaziland
Tegera, A. and Johnson, D. (2007) Rules for sale: formal and informal crossborder trade in DRC, Goma: Pole Institute.
Keywords: Goma,Gisenyi,D.R.C,Rwanda,Trade
Titeca, K., Vlassenroot, K. (2012) ‘Rebels without borders in the Rwenzori borderland? A biography of the Allied Democratic Forces’ Journal of Eastern African Studies (special issue ‘Uganda from the margins’) 6(1): 154-176. Download
Keywords: ADF,Congo,Uganda,rebel group,borderland
Titeca, K. (2009) ‘The “Masai” and “miraa”: public authority, vigilance and criminality in a Ugandan border town’, Journal of Modern African Studies, 47(2), pp. 291–317.
Keywords: Masai,Uganda
Vlassenroot, K. and Raeymaekers, T. (2004b) 'The Politics of Rebellion and Intervention in Ituri: The Emergence of a New Political Complex ?' African Affairs, 103, pp. 385-412.
Keywords: Ituri
Weiss, H. F., & Carayannis, T. (2005). The enduring idea of the Congo. In R. R. Larémont (Ed.), Borders, nationalism, and the African state. Boulder: Rienner.
Keywords: D.R.C
East Africa and the Horn
East Africa and the Horn
Abbink, J. (2001) 'Creating Borders: Exploring the impact of the Ethio-Eritrean war on the local population'. Africa (Rome), 56(4): 447-458
Keywords: Eritrea,Ethiopia,Conflict,War
Clapham, C. (1996) 'Boundary and Territory in the Horn of Africa', in P. Nugent and A.I. Asiwaju (eds), African Boundaries: Barriers, conduits and opportunities. London: Pinter, pp. 237-250
Dias, Alexandra Magnólia (2012) Borderless World vs Borders as Walls: insights from a borderland group in northern Ethiopia, In Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (ed.) Crossing African Borders: migration and mobility (pp. 15-27), Center of African Studies (CEA)/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon: University Institute of Lisbon. e-book http://hdl.handle.net/10071/4366, ISBN: -22-9 Download
Keywords: Borders;Ethiopia; Eritrea; Irob
Drysdale, J. (1964) The Somali Dispute. London: Pall Mall Press
Keywords: Somalia
Feyissa, D. and Hoehne, M. (2010) Borders and borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa. London: James Currey.
Keywords: Horn,Resources
Feyissa, D and Hoehne, M. (2008) ‘Resourcing State Borders and Borderlands in the Horn of Africa’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers, no. 107
Keywords: Horn
Hoehne, M.V. (2010) People and Politics along and across the Somaliland-Puntland Border. In Dereje Feyissa and Markus V. Hoehne (eds.), Borders and borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa. London: James Currey, pp. 97-121.
Keywords: Somaliland,Puntland
Imbert-Vier, S. (2011), "Tracer des frontières à Djibouti. Des territoires et des hommes aux XIXe et XXe siècles", Karthala, 480 p. Download
Keywords: Djibouti,colonisation,railway,identity,nationality,Afar,Issa,Dire Dawa
Imbert-Vier, S. (2009), "Invention et réalisations de la frontière djibouto-érythréenne", "Africa" (Roma), LXIV, 1-2, pp. 105-119
Keywords: Djibouti,Eritrea,Doumera
James, W. (2007) ‘War and Survival in Sudan’s Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile’, Oxford: OUP- in press.
James, W. (2002) ‘No place to hide: flag-waving on the western frontier’, in James, W., D.L. Donham, E. Kurimoto and A. Triulzi (eds) Remapping Ethiopia: Socialism and After.
James, W. (2001)‘“People-friendly” projects and practical realities: some contradictions on the Sudan-Ethiopian border’, in M-B. Johannsen & N. Kastfelt (eds.), Sudanese Society in the Context of Civil War (Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen North/South Priority Research Area, Centre of African Studies: 29-47.
James, W. (2000)‘The Multiple Voices of Sudanese Airspace’, in R. Fardon and G. Furniss (eds.), African Broadcast Cultures, Oxford: James Currey Publishers: 198-215.
James, W. (2000) ‘Beyond the first encounter: transformations of “the field” in North East Africa’, in P. Dresch, W. James and D. Parkin (eds.), Anthropologists in a wider world: essays on field research, Oxford: Berghahn: 69-90.
Johnson, Douglas H. (2011a) 'The road back from Abyei' Download
Johnson, Douglas H. (2011b) 'Abyei: Sudan’s West Bank', Washington DC: Enough Project, 12pp Download
Johnson, Douglas H. (2010a) 'Border battle line', International Journal of African Renaissance Studies, 5/1: 37-47
Johnson, Douglas H. (2010b) When Boundaries become Borders: the Impact of Boundary-making in Southern Sudan’s Frontier Zones, (London/Nairobi: Rift Valley Institute) Download
Johnson, Douglas H. (2009) 'Decolonizing the borders in Sudan: ethnic territories and national development', in Mark Duffield & Vernon Hewitt (eds), Empire, Development and Colonialism: The Past in the Present, James Currey: 176-87
Johnson, Douglas H. (2008) 'Why Abyei matters: the breaking point of Sudan’s comprehensive peace agreement?', African Affairs, 107/426: 1-19
Johnson, Douglas H. et al (2005) ‘Report of the Abyei Boundaries Commission’ Download
Johnson, Douglas H. (2000) ‘Conquest and colonisation: soldier settlers in the Sudan and Uganda’, Sudan Notes & Records, NS 4: 59-79
Johnson, Douglas H. (1986) 'On the Nilotic frontier: Imperial Ethiopia in the Southern Sudan, 1898-1936', in D. Donham & W. James (eds), The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology (Cambridge: CUP): 219-45
Johnson, Douglas H. (1982) 'Tribal boundaries and border wars: Nuer-Dinka relations in the Sobat and Zaraf valleys, c. 1860-1976', Journal of African History, 23/2: 183-203
Kuschminder, K., Andersson, L. & Siegel, M. (2012) Profiling Ethiopian Migration: a comparison of characteristics of Ethiopian migrants to Africa, the middle east and the north, In Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (ed.) Crossing African Borders: migration and mobility (pp. 28-43), Center of African Studies (CEA)/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon: University Institute of Lisbon. e-book http://hdl.handle.net/10071/4366, ISBN: -22-9 Download
Keywords: Borders,Ethiopia,Migration,Survey
Little, P.D. (2007) ‘Unofficial Cross-Border Trade in East Africa’, Workshop on Staple Food Trade and Market Policy Options for Promoting Development in Eastern and Southern Africa, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, March 1-2 Download
Little, P.D. (2006) ‘Working Across Borders: Methodological and Policy Challenges of Cross-Border Livestock Trade in the Horn of Africa’, in McPeak, John and Peter D. Little, eds., Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges, Warwickshire, UK: ITDG Publications.
Little, P.D. (2005) ‘Pastoralism in a Stateless Environment: The Case of the Southern Somali Borderlands’, Geography Research Forum 25 (December Issue): 128-147.
Little, P.D. (2005) ‘Unofficial Trade When States are Weak: The Case of Cross-Border Commerce in the Horn of Africa’ Research Paper No. 2005/13 World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland.
Little, Peter D. (2003): Somalia: Economy Without State. Oxford, UK: James Currey Publishers; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Simala, K., Amutabi, M. (2005) Small Arms, Cattle Raiding and Borderlands. The Ilemi Triangle, in: Willem van Schendel and Itty Abraham (eds.): Illicit Flows and Criminal Things. States, Borders and the other Side of Globalization. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press , pp.201-225.
Keywords: Ilemi Triangle
Soi, I. (2010), “Il genocidio in Rwanda: da guerra civile a guerra regionale”, Storicamente n. 6/2010. Download
Soi, I. (2008), “Rwanda e Cina: un caso di interscambio afro-asiatico”, Afriche e Orienti, n. 2/2008, pp.102-108. Download
Soi, I. (2007) Una politica condizionata: ribelli e rifugiati in Uganda, Aracne Editore, Roma. Download
Soi, I. (2007), “Uganda-Sudan: un confine complicato”, Africa LXII/2, Roma, pp. 291-305.
Titeca, K. (2012) ‘Tycoons and contraband: informal cross-border trade in West Nile, north-western Uganda’Journal of Eastern African Studies (special issue ‘Uganda from the margins’) 6(1): 47-63 Download
Keywords: informal cross-border trade,smuggling,uganda,congo,west nile
Titeca, K., Vlassenroot, K. (2012) ‘Rebels without borders in the Rwenzori borderland? A biography of the Allied Democratic Forces’ Journal of Eastern African Studies (special issue ‘Uganda from the margins’) 6(1): 154-176. Download
Keywords: ADF,rebel group,borderland,Congo,Uganda
Titeca, K. (2009) “The changing Cross-border Trade Dynamics between North-western Uganda, North-eastern Congo and Southern Sudan”, Crisis States Working Paper 63 series 2, London School of Economcis and Political Science,Crisis States Research Centre, London. Download
Titeca, K. (2006) ‘Les OPEC boys en Ouganda, trafiquants de pétrole et acteurs politiques’(The OPEC boys in Uganda: fuel smugglers and political actors) Politique Africaine, n°103 : 143-159. Download
Titeca, K., De Herdt, T. (2010) 'Regulation, cross-border trade and practical norms in West Nile, north-western Uganda' Africa 80(4): 573-594. Download
Zeller, Wolfgang (2013): Get It While You Can – Governance Between Wars in the Uganda-South Sudan Borderland, In Benedikt Korf and Timothy Raeymaekers (eds.), Violence on the Margins. States, Conflict, and Borderlands. 193-218. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Download
Keywords: Uganda,South Sudan,boom town,border town,violence,security,transport corridor
Zeller, Wolfgang (2010): 'Illicit Resource Flows in Sugango – Making War and Profit in the Border Triangle of Sudan, Uganda and Congo-DRC', In Henni Alava (ed), Exploring the Security-Development Nexus. Perspectives from Nepal, Northern Uganda and 'Sugango'. 111-130. Helsinki: Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Keywords: Uganda,South Sudan,DRC,security,development
North Africa
North Africa
Cross, Hannah (2012) Migrants, Borders and Labour Regimes in Mauritania: between militarisation and mobility, In Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (ed.) Crossing African Borders: migration and mobility (pp. 58-70), Center of African Studies (CEA)/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon: University Institute of Lisbon. e-book http://hdl.handle.net/10071/4366, ISBN: -22-9 Download
Keywords: Migration,Borders,Mauritania
Thomas Hüsken & Georg Klute (2015) Political Orders in the Making:Emerging Forms of Political Organization from Libya to Northern Mali, African Security, 8:4, 320-3 Download
Keywords: Africa,connectivity,heterarchy,Imazighan,Libya,local actors,locality,northern Mali,northwest,order,politics,Tuareg,transnational jihadists
Hüsken, T. (2009) The Neotribal Competitive Order in the Borderland of Egypt and Libya. In: Ulf Engel / Paul Nugent (eds.), Respacing Africa, Amsterdam (Brill): 169-209.
Keywords: Egypt,Libya
Hüsken, Thomas (2009a): Die neotribale Wettbewerbsordnung in Grenzland von Ägypten und Libyen. In: Sociologus 2/2009: 117-143.
Lecocq, Baz (2003) "This Country is Your Country: Territory, Borders and Decentralisation in Tuareg Politics". In: Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas Histories, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 58-78.
Leopold, M. (2005) Inside West Nile: Violence, History and Representation on an African Frontier. Oxford: James Currey.
Keywords: West Nile,Violence,Representation
Southern Africa
Southern Africa
Brambilla, Chiara (2007), "Borders and Identities/Border Identities: the Angola-Namibia Border and the Plurivocality of the Kwanyama Identity”, in: Journal of Borderlands Studies, vol. 22, n. 2, Fall 2007, pp. 21-38.
Brambilla, Chiara (2007), Voci di frontiera: borderscape creativi e geografie pluriversali. Il caso della frontiera Angola/Namibia e l’identità kwanyama", in: Afriche e Orienti, 3-4/07.
Cheater (1998): Transcending the state? Gender and borderline constructions of citizenship in Zimbabwe, in: Donnan, H. and Wilson, T.M. (1999) Borders: frontiers of identity, nation and state, Oxford/New York, Berg, pp. 191-214.
Keywords: Gender,Identity,Citizenship,State
Coplan, D. (2001) ‘A River Runs Through It: The Meaning of The Lesotho-Free State Border’, African Affairs, 100, 81-116.
Keywords: Lesotho
Coplan, D. (2000) ‘Unconquered Territory: Narrating the Caledon Valley’, Journal of African Cultural Studies 13(2), pp. 185-206
Keywords: Caledon
Dobler, Gregor (2014) 'Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990. Elite Formation and the Politics of Consumption under Indirect Rule and Apartheid.' Basel, Basel Africa Bibliographies.
Keywords: trade,elite,consumption,Namibia,Angola
Dobler, Gregor (2010) 'On the border to chaos: identity formation on the Angolan-Namibian border, 1927-2008.' Journal of Borderland Studies 25/2: 22-35.
Keywords: Namibia,Angola,History,Identity
Dobler, Gregor (2009) 'Oshikango: the dynamics of growth and regulation in a Northern Namibian boom town.' Journal of Southern African Studies 35/1: 115-131.
Keywords: Namibia,Angola,Politics,Regulation,Trade
Dobler, Gregor (2009): Chinese shops and the formation of a Chinese expatriate community in Namibia. China Quarterly 199, 707-727.
Keywords: Namibia,China,Migration,Trade
Dobler, Gregor (2009) 'Solidarity, Xenophobia and the Regulation of Chinese businesses in Oshikango, Namibia.' In: Chris Alden, Daniel Large, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (eds.): China Returns to Africa. London: Hurst: 237-255.
Keywords: Namibia,China,Migration,Trade
Dobler, Gregor (2008) 'Boundary-drawing and the notion of territoriality in pre-colonial and early colonial Ovamboland.' Journal of Namibian Studies 3, 7-30.
Keywords: Namibia,History,Territory
Dobler, Gregor (2008) 'From Scotch Whisky to Chinese Sneakers. International commodity flows and trade networks in Oshikango, Namibia.' Africa 78, 3: 410-432.
Keywords: Trade,Namibia,China,Brazil,Pakistan,Migration
Englund, H. (2002), From War to Peace in the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland. Edinburgh: University Press.
Keywords: Mozambique,Malawi
Hughes, D. M. (2006) ‘From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier’, Seattle: University of Washington. Press and Harare: Weaver Press.
Impey, Angela (2006). 'Sounding Place in the Western Maputaland Borderlands.' Journal for the Musical Arts in Africa. Vol. 3:55-79
Kopiński, Dominik & Polus, Andrzej (2012) Is Botswana Creating a New Gaza Strip? An analysis of the ‘fence discourse’, In Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (ed.) Crossing African Borders: migration and mobility (pp. 83-96), Center of African Studies (CEA)/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon: University Institute of Lisbon. e-book http://hdl.handle.net/10071/4366, ISBN: -22-9 Download
Keywords: Botswana,Fence,Migration,Borders
Landau, L. B. & Monson, T. 2010. “Immigration and Subterranean Sovereignty in South African Cities”, Chapter 8 inAnne Clunan and Harold Trinkunas, eds., Ungoverned Spaces? Alternatives to State Authority in an Era of Softened Sovereignty, Stanford Security Studies.
Keywords: migration; sovereignty
Landau, L. B. & Monson, T. 2008. ‘Displacement, Estrangement and Sovereignty: Reconfiguring State Power in Urban South Africa.’ Government and Opposition 43:2, 315-336. Download
Keywords: migration; displacement; sovereignty
McGregor, JoAnn (2009): 'Crossing the Zambezi: The Politics of Landscape on a Central African Frontie', Oxford and Rochester: James Currey/Boydell and Brewer.
Monson, T. (2012) 'Alibis for the State? Producing Knowledge and Reproducing State Borders After the May 2008 ‘Xenophobic’ Attacks in South Africa' Geopolitics 17(3): 455-481. Download
Keywords: South Africa; violence; xenophobia; sovereignty
Monson, T. 2012. “Making the Law; Breaking the Law; Taking the Law into Our Own Hands: Sovereignty and Territorial Control in Three South African Settlements”, Chapter 8 in Landau, Loren B. ed., Exorcising the Demon Within: Xenophobia, Violence, and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa, Wits University Press.
Keywords: xenophobia; violence; sovereignty; territorial control; sociolegal studies; legal pluralism
Monson, T. 2012. “Media Memory: A Critical Reconstruction of the May 2008 Violence”, Chapter 2 in Landau, Loren B. ed., Exorcising the Demon Within: Xenophobia, Violence, and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa, Wits University Press.
Keywords: South Africa; xenophobia; violence
Rodgers, G. (2008) 'Everyday Life and the Political Economy of Displacement on the Mozambique-South Africa Borderland' Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 26, 4, pp. 385-399.
Roque, A.C. (2009) Sources for the History of the Southern Border of Mozambique: Preliminary results of a project on the archives of the Portuguese Commission of Cartography, ABORNE conference paper 2009
Keywords: Mozambique,Maps,Cartography
ROQUE, A. C. (2013) “Sources for the history of the southern border of Mozambique: The archives of the Portuguese Commission of Cartography” in WOLPUTTE, Steven van (coord.), Borderlands and frontiers in Africa, LIT Verlag, Berlin , 2013:23-54
Keywords: Mozambique,South Africa, Borders,Cartography,Archives
ROQUE, A. C. 2012 “O Sul de Moçambique na viragem do século XIX: Território, exploração científica e desenvolvimento”, in Africana Studia, 17. Número especial Exploração Científica em África na Época Colonial, CEA, Universidade do Porto, pp. 103-112
Keywords: Mozambique,South Africa,Borders,Cartography,Scientific missions
ROQUE, A. C. and SANTOS, P. (2011), “History, cartography and science: the present day importance of the mapping of Mozambique in the 19th century”, FIG Working week 2011 - Bridging the gap between cultures, Marrakech, 18-22 Maio de 2011. Download
Keywords: Mozambique,Borders,Cartografphy,Geodesic missiona
ROQUE, A. C. (2010) “Sources for the history of the southern border of Mozambique: Preliminary results of a project on the archives of the Portuguese Commission of Cartography”, nº especial do Journal of Borderland Studies on African Borders, 25 nº2, September 2010, pp.77-93.
Keywords: Mozambique,Souther Africa,Borders,Cartography
SANTOS, P. ROQUE, A. C., MUCOMBO, J. (2011), “Revision of the Mozambique Frontiers: a Cooperation Project”, FIG Working week 2011 - Bridging the gap between cultures, Marrakech, 18-22 Maio de 2011. Download
Keywords: Mozambique,Borders,Cartography,Geodesy,Cooperation
Tornimbeni , C. (2005) "The State, Labour Migration and the Transnational Discourse – A Historical Perspective from Mozambique", in Veronika Bilger, Albert Kraler (eds.), African Migrations. Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Dynamics, Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien/Vienna Journal of African Studies, special issue, n. 8/2005, Wien, 2005
Tornimbeni, C (2007). ""Isto foi sempre assim". The Politics of Land and Human Mobility in Chimanimani, central Mozambique", Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 33, n. 3
Tornimbeni, C (2005). "Migrant Workers and State Boundaries. Reflections on the Transnational Debate from the Colonial Past in Mozambique", Lusotopie 2004, CEAN, Karthala, Bordeaux.
Tornimbeni, C. (2007) ""O cadastro vivo da memória". Community mapping, conservation and state-making in Mozambique", in C. Tornimbeni and M. Zamponi (eds.), Competing Rights. Land and Natural Resources in Africa. afriche e orienti, Special Issue I.
Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (2010) 'Angola’s southern border: entrepreneurship opportunities and the state in Cunene', Journal of Modern African Studies, 48(3):461-484 Download
Keywords: Angola,Cunene,Border,Cross-border trade
Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. (2007) Cunene em Movimento: dinâmicas empresariais transfronteiriças, Economia Global e Gestão, Vol. XII (3): 57-70 Download
Keywords: Angola,Cunene,Border,Cross-border trade
Wittmayer, J. M. & Büscher, B. (2010) ‘Conserving Conflict? Transfrontier Conservation, Development Discourses and Local Conflict Between South Africa And Lesotho’, Human Ecology, 38, pp. 763–773
Keywords: Lesotho,South Africa,Conflict
Zeller, Wolfgang (2012): Sezession am Sambesi. Afrika Süd 3/2012, pp.29-31 Download
Keywords: Zambia,Barotseland,Western Province,Lozi,secession
Zeller, Wolfgang (2010): 'Neither Arbitrary nor Artificial: Lozi Chiefs and the Making of the Namibia-Zambia Borderland'. Journal of Borderland Studies. 25(2). 6-21.
Keywords: Namibia,Zambia,Caprivi,Western Province,Lozi,Barotseland,traditional authority,colonial boundary-making
Zeller, Wolfgang (2010): "No tenemos tiempo para esa gente". Separatismo lozi y la politica de la Autoridad Tradicional en Zambia, In Jordi Tomas (ed), Secesionismo en Africa. 249-281. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra.
Keywords: secessionism,Lozi,Western Province,Barotseland,Zambia
Zeller, Wolfgang (2009): 'Danger and Opportunity in Katima Mulilo: A Namibian Border Boomtown at Transnational Crossroads', Journal of Southern African Studies 35 (1) 133 - 154.
Keywords: Namibia,Zambia,Caprivi,WeLozi,boom town,border town,transport corridor,road,bridge,smuggling,Caprivi,Western Province,Namibia,Zambia,Katima Mulilo
Zeller, Wolfgang (2007): Chiefs, Policing and Vigilantes: “Cleaning up” the Caprivi Borderland of Namibia, in Lars Buur and Helene Maria Kyed (eds.): A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities? State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Keywords: Namibia,Caprivi,traditional authority,security,smuggling,policing,vigilantes,cattle rustling
Zeller, Wolfgang (2007): “Now we are a Town”: Chiefs, Investors and the State in Zambia’s Western Province, in Lars Buur and Helene Maria Kyed (eds.): A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities? State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Keywords: Zambia,Western Province,Barotseland,Lozi,traditional authority,transport corridor
Zeller, Wolfgang and Bennett Kangumu Kangumu (2007): ‘From Apartheid Bantustan to Namibia's Socio-economic Tail-Light: Caprivi Under Old and New Indirect Rule’, in Henning Melber (ed.): Transitions in Namibia. Which change for whom?, Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute.
Keywords: Namibia,Caprivi,colonial boundary-making
Comparative: Africa and Other Regions
Comparative: Africa and Other Regions
Asiwaju, A. (2004) ‘Transfrontier Regionalism: The European Union Perspective On Post-Colonial Africa with Special Reference to Borg’ in Heather Nicol and Ian Townsend - Gault eds. Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World, Vancouver: University of British Colombia Press, 119 - 141
Coplan, D. (2010) ‘First Meets Third: Analysing Inequality along the US-Mexico and South Africa-Lesotho borders’, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 25(2)
Keywords: Mexico,Lesotho,Comparative,Inequality
Driessen, H. (1998) ‘The “New Immigration” and the transformation of the European-African Frontier’, in T. M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan, eds., Border Identities. Cambridge University Press
Keywords: Immigration,Europe
Foucher, M. (1991), Fronts et frontières - Un tour du monde géopolitique, Paris, Fayard, (1re éd. 1988), 691 p.
Keywords: Geography,geopolitics,making of,significance
Kramsch, Olivier T. and Chiara Brambilla (2007), “Transboundary Europe through a West African Looking Glass: Cross Border Integration, ‘Colonial Difference’ and the Chance for ‘Border Thinking’", in: Comparativ | Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaft, 17, Heft 4, pp. 95-115.
Miles, W.F.S. (2014). Scars of Partition Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Download
Keywords: comparative borderland studies
Miles, W.F.S. (2008) "Legacies of Anglo-French Colonial Borders: A West African and Southeast Asian Comparison." Journal of Borderland Studies 23 (2): 83-102.
Raeymaekers, Timothy (2014) Introduction: Europe’s Bleeding Border and the Mediterranean as a Relational Space. ACME Journal for Critical Geographies 13(2):163-172.
Keywords: Europe,mediterranean,border control,migration
ROQUE, A. C. e FERRÂO, L. (2013) “Documentos para a História de Goa: Território e Fronteiras (Comissão Portuguesa de Cartografia e Arquivo de Fronteiras”, Atas do Congresso Internacional Goa: Passado e Presente, Lisboa, 26-29 de Outubro de 2011, Lisboa, 2013:197-210
Keywords: Africa,India,Goa,Borders
Stoddard, E. R (1989) “Developmental Stages of U.S.-Mexico Borerlands Studies: Implication for the Study of African Borders” in A.I. Asiwaju and P.O. Adeniyi, eds. Borderlands in Africa. Lagos UP
Keywords: Mexico
Non-Africanist Borderlands Classics
Non-Africanist Borderlands Classics
Alvarez, R. (1995) 'The Mexico-US Border: The making of Anthropology in the borderlands'. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24: pp. 447-470
Keywords: Mexico,USA,Anthropology
Ancel, J. (1938), “Géographie des frontières”, Paris, Gallimard, 210 p.
Keywords: Geography,theory
Anderson, J., O'Dowd, L. (1999) 'Borders, Border Region and Territoriality: Contradictory Meanings, Changing Significance'. Regional Studies. 33(7): pp. 593-604
Appadurai, A. (2003) 'Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Post-National Geography', in S. Low and D. Zuniga (eds), The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp.337-349
Keywords: Sovereignty,Geography
Appadurai, A. (1991) 'Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and queries for a transnational anthropology', in R. Fox (ed.), Recapturing Anthropology. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, pp. 191-210
Keywords: Anthropology
Barth, F. (2000) ' Boundaries and Connections', in A. Cohen (ed.), Signifying Identities: Anthropological Perspectives on Boundaries and Contested Values. London: Routledge, pp. 17-36
Baud, M and Van Schendel, W. (1997) 'Toward a comparative history of borderlands'. Journal of World History, 8(2): 211-242
Beltran, C. (2004) ‘Patrolling Borders: Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje’, Political Research Quarterly, 57(4), pp. 597-607
Keywords: Mestizaje,Mexico
Berg, E. and van Houtum, H. (2003). Prologue: a border is not a border. Writing and reading borders in space. In E. Berg, & H. van Houtum (Eds.), Routing borders between territories, discourses and practices. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Binford, L. (2003) ‘Migrant Remittances and (Under)Development in Mexico’, Critique of Anthropology, 23(3), pp. 305–336
Keywords: Mexico,remittances
Brunet-Jailly, Emmanuel (2011) 'Borders, Borderlands and Theory: An Introduction.' Geopolitics 16(1):1-6.
Keywords: borders,borderlands,theory
Campbell, H., Heyman, J. (2007) ‘Slantwise: Beyond Domination and Resistance on the Border’, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 36(1), pp. 3-30
Eder, K. (2006) 'Europe’s Borders, The Narrative Construction of the Boundaries of Europe', European Journal of Social Theory, 9(2), pp. 255–271
Keywords: Europe
Febvre, L. (1928), «Frontière : le mot et la notion», “Revue de Synthèse historique”, Paris, XLV, juin, pp. 31-44
Keywords: History,boundary,limit,Europe
Fischer, E. (1949) 'On Boundaries'. World Politics, 1(2):196-222
Ghosh, A. (2002) ‘the Global Reservation: Notes toward an Ethnography of International Peacekeeping’, in the Imam and the Indian, New Delhi: Ravi Dayal
Keywords: Ethnography,Peacekeeping
Gomez-Pena, G. (1996) The New World Border. San Francisco: City Lights
Hassner, R., & Wittenberg, J. (2009). Barriers to entry: Who builds fortified boundaries and are they likely to work? Annual meeting. Toronto: American Political Science Association.
Johnson, C., Jones R., Paasi, A., Amoore, L., Mountz, A., Salter, M., Rumford, C. (2011) Rethinking "the border“ in border studies. Political Geography 30, 61-69.
Lattimore, O. (1962), “Studies in frontier history : collected papers, 1928-1958”, La Haye, Mouton et Co, Paris, 367 p.
Keywords: Asia,boundaries
Lugo, A. (1997) "Reflections on Border Theory, Culture, and the Nation", in Border theory: the limits of cultural politics, Scott Michaelsen and David E. Johnson, editors, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Martinez, O. (1978) Border Boom Town: Ciudad Juarez Since 1848, Austin: University of Texas Press
Keywords: Boom town,Asymmetrical,Mexico,Juarez
Michaelsen, S. and Johnson, D. E. (1997) ‘Border Secrets: An Introduction’, in Border theory: the limits of cultural politics, Scott Michaelsen and David E. Johnson, editors, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Keywords: Introduction
Momoh, C.S. (1989) “A Critique of Borderland Theories”, in A.I. Asiwaju and P.O. Adeniyi, eds. Borderlands in Africa. Lagos UP
Newman, D. (2006) ‘The lines that continue to separate us: borders in our `borderless' world’. Progress in Human Geography, 30; pp. 143-161
Newman, D. (2006) ‘Borders and Bordering: Towards an Interdisciplinary Dialogue’, European Journal of Social Theory, 9(2), pp. 171 - 186.
Newman, D. (2003) ‘On Borders and Power: A Theoretical Framework’, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 18(1), 13-25
Keywords: Power
Paasi, Anssi (1996) 'Territories, Boundaries and Consciousness. The Changing Geographies of the Finnish-Russian border.' Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
Keywords: territory,theory,borders,borderlands,Finland,Russia
Popescu, Gabriel (2012) 'Bordering and Ordering the 21st Century. Understanding Borders.' Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield.
Keywords: borders,borderlands,theory
Rosas, G. (2006) ‘The Thickening Borderlands: Diffused Exceptionality and ‘Immigrant Social Struggles during the ‘War on Terror’, Cultural Dynamics, 18(3), pp. 335-349
Keywords: Immigration,war on terror
Sahlins, P. (1989), “Boundaries - The making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees”, Berkeley, University of California Press, XXI-351 p.
Keywords: Cerdaña,France,Spain
Sahlins, P. (1988), «The Nation in the Village: State-Building and Communal Struggles in the Catalan Borderland during the Eighteenth and Nineteeths Centuries», "The Journal of Modern History", vol. 60, n° 2, june, pp. 234-263 Download
Keywords: Cerdaña,France,Spain
Scott, B. (2009) ‘Of Territorial Borders and Test Cricket: Exploring the Boundaries of the Postcolonial State,’ The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 44(1), pp. 23-34
Keywords: Cricket,Postcolonial
Scott, J. (2009) The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press
Keywords: Southeast Asia,Stateless
Simmons, B.A. (2005) ‘Rules over Real Estate: Trade, Territorial Conflict, and International Borders as Institution’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 49(6), pp.823-848
Keywords: Conflict,Real estate,trade
Strassaldo, R. (1989) “Border Studies: The State of the Art in Europe” in A.I. Asiwaju and P.O. Adeniyi, eds. Borderlands in Africa. Lagos UP
Keywords: Europe
Vukov, T. (2003) ‘Imagining communities through immigration policies, governmental regulation, media spectacles and the affective politics of national borders’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 6(3); 335-353
Keywords: Immigration,media
Walters, W. (2006) ‘Border/Control’, European Journal of Social Theory, 9(2), pp.187-203
Wilson, T.M and Donnan, H. eds., Blackwell Companion to Border Studies, Oxford: Blackwell, In Press
Yuval-Davis, N., Stoetzler, M. (2002) 'Imagined Boundaries and Borders: A Gendered Gaze', European Journal of Women's Studies, 9(3), pp. 329-344
Keywords: Gender
Borderlands in Arts and Literature
Borderlands in Arts and Literature
Chilson, P. "Romancing the Archivist: Convincing a skeptic that I wasn't a spy." www.TheSmartSet.com." Drexel University. Philadelphia, PA, USA. August 22, 2008 Download
Keywords: Chilson,archivist,Mali,thesmartset,border,Senegal
Chilson, P. "The Border: In Africa, lines are often blurry." www.TheSmartSet.com. Drexel University. Philadelphia, PA, USA. November 30, 2007 Download
Keywords: Chilson,border,Zegoua,Mali,Cote d'Ivoire,thesmartset