Border Politics

Nancy A. Naples is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of many books, including Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research, and Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on Poverty.Jennifer Bickham Mendez is Associate Professor of Sociology at The College of William & Mary. She is author of From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor and Globalization in Nicaragua (2005). Her scholarship has appeared in such journals as Gender and Society, Mobilization, Social Problems and Ethnic and Racial Studies.

• 1. Border Politics: Contests over Territory, Nation, Identity, 1 and Belonging Jennifer Bickham Mendez and Nancy A. Naples Part I: Gendered, Ethno-Nationalist Struggles and Militarization 2. "Border Granny Wants You!": Grandmothers Policing Nation 35 at the US-Mexico Border Jennifer L. Johnson 3. Defending the Nation: Militarism, Women's Empowerment, 60 and the Hindu Right Meera Sehgal 4. Borders, Territory, and Ethnicity: Women and the Naga 95 Peace Process Duncan McDuie-Ra 5. Imperial Gazes and Queer Politics: Re/Reading Female 120 Political Subjectivity in Pakistan Moon M. Charania Part II: Politicized Identities and Belonging 6. Indigenous Peoples and Colonial Borders: Sovereignty, 153 Nationhood, Identity, and Activism Sarah Maddison 7. Constricting Boundaries: Collective Identity in the Tea 177 Party Movement Deana A. Rohlinger, Jesse Klein, Tara M. Stamm, and Kyle Rogers 8. Occupy Slovenia: How Migrant Movements Contributed 206 to New Forms of Direct Democracy Maple Razsa and Andrej Kurnik 9. Challenging Borders, Imagining Europe: Transnational 230 LGBT Activism in a New Europe Phillip M. Ayoub and David Paternotte Part III: Contested Solidarities and Emerging Sites of Struggle 10. Frames, Boomerangs, and Global Assemblages: Border 261 Distortions in the Global Resistance to Dam Building in Lesotho Yvonne A. Braun and Michael C. Dreiling 11. Networks, Place, and Barriers to Cross-Border Organizing

"Border Politics is a groundbreaking book on how borders and boundariesboth territorial and symbolicshape the mobilization of social movements at the same time that they are instrumental in the very often conflicting identity construction processes of social movements participants. Nancy A. Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez have arranged a significant, comprehensive, and timely collection of essays." - Pablo Vila,author of Border Identifications and Ethnography at the Border "The edited collection offers an important contribution to the sociology of bordering. Rather than focusing on struggles over the militarization of geographical borderlands as outlined by scholars like Reece Jones, the contribution of the book lies in its original approach to the analysis of social movements for which borders and boundaries are sites of struggle. More precisely, the chapters depict how these social movements maintain, contest, produce, and dissolve borders and boundaries." (Border Criminologies) "This edited volume highlights many contemporary geopolitical issues in the social sciences. The contributors take a global perspective, examining problems from Asia, North America, Australia, Europe, and Africa." (Choice)