10. Frames, boomerangs, and global assemblages: border distortions in the global resistance to dam building in Lesotho

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction
5. 1. Border politics: contests over territory, nation, identity, and belonging 1
6. Part I. Gendered, ethno-nationalist struggles and militarization
7. 2. “Border granny wants you!”: grandmothers policing nation at the us-Mexico border 35
8. 3. Defending the nation: militarism, women’s empowerment, and the Hindu right 60
9. 4. Borders, territory, and ethnicity: women and the naga peace process 95
10. 5. Imperial gazes and queer politics: re/reading female political subjectivity in Pakistan 120
11. Part II. Politicized identities and belonging
12. 6. Indigenous peoples and colonial borders: sovereignty, nationhood, identity, and activism 153
13. 7. Constricting boundaries: collective identity in the tea party movement 177
14. 8. Occupy Slovenia: how migrant movements contributed to new forms of direct democracy 206
15. 9. Challenging borders, imagining Europe: transnational lgbt activism in a new Europe 230
16. Part III. Contested solidarities and emerging sites of struggle
17. 10. Frames, boomerangs, and global assemblages: border distortions in the global resistance to dam building in Lesotho 261
18. 11. Networks, place, and barriers to cross-border organizing: “no border” camping in transcarpathia, Ukraine 293
19. 12. “Giving wings to our dreams”: binational activism and workers’ rights struggles in the San Diego–Tijuana border region 323
20. Conclusion
21. 13. Border politics: creating a dialogue between border studies and social movements 357
22. About the contributors 381
23. Index 387