Border Towns in Africa
Debordering, Spatiality, and (De)Territorialization
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Beschreibung
This book discusses border towns in the context of increased cross-border migration, urbanisation, regional development, and integration in Africa. It explores the centrality of border towns in Africa and how they both implicate and are in turn impacted by cross-border trade and flows, cross-border (in)security, spatial transformation, development, and regional integration. Borders play a paradoxical yet generative role, simultaneously enabling and constraining the development trajectories of these towns. All this amplifies not only the importance but also the centrality of border towns in spatial transformation, development, and the socioeconomic, political, and cultural implications of their conviviality, despite their marginal geographical location.
Inocent Moyo is a C1 NRF-rated researcher and a Full Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, South Africa. He has published extensively on Borders, Migration, Regional Development and Integration, and Urban Geography.
This book discusses border towns in the context of increased cross-border migration, urbanisation, regional development, and integration in Africa. It explores the centrality of border towns in Africa and how they both implicate and are in turn impacted by cross-border trade and flows, cross-border (in)security, spatial transformation, development, and regional integration. Borders play a paradoxical yet generative role, simultaneously enabling and constraining the development trajectories of these towns. All this amplifies not only the importance but also the centrality of border towns in spatial transformation, development, and the socioeconomic, political, and cultural implications of their conviviality, despite their marginal geographical location.
Engages with the complexity and transformative potential of border towns in Africa Explores the impact of cross-border trade and (in)security, spatial transformation, and regional integration Investigates the importance of border towns in cross-border cooperation, regional integration and transnational networks
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Inocent Moyo
Themen in »Border Towns in Africa«
borderlands urbanisation urban growth cross-border trade economic development spatial and physical transformation cross-border (in)security regional development inter-border interactions Africa