Building and transgressing borders in the Great Lakes region of East Africa

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2182175
AutoresHenri Médard (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume3
Fascículo2
Páginas275-283
Data de publicação2009-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Eastern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1753-1055 • E-ISSN: 1753-1063
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17531050902972709
OpenAlexW2075200755
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas18

This paper serves as a thematic introduction to a collection of six articles published in this issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies, these having originally been presented at a conference on Mobilités, traces et frontières dans l'Afrique des Grands Lacs, XIIe–XXIe siècle, held at the Sorbonne, Paris, in October 2007. This introduction discusses the meaning of physical and social boundaries, and the limits and transgressions on boundary crossings in the Great Lakes region. We have chosen to use the term boundary in a broad sense, literally and metaphorically. The general theme of this collection of papers is the relation between society and space which translates into territories that in turn produce or modify “imagined communities”. The collection of papers thus deals with both external and internal boundaries in the Great Lakes region

Boundary (topology · Epistemology · Geography · Meaning (existential · Relation (database · Sociology · Theme (computing · African history and culture studies · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics