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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Lerner's description contextualises our interest
in borders. The papers in this special section of
Asia Pacific Viewpoint have been inspired by
recent work that examine borders not as
forever peripheral to core interests of the state,
but as sites of opportunity for state actors and
institutions, personal discovery of freed spaces
for identity formation and alternative gender
roles (Schendel and Abraham, 2005; Tagliacozzo,
2005; Horstman and Wadley, 2006).
They deal with both metaphoric and national/
jurisdictional boundaries by privileging narratives
of those who are actually involved in
negotiating one or both (Kyle and Siracusa,
2005). The papers further address the hierarchies
of
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