Bridging Fluid Borders: Entanglements in the French-Brazilian Borderland

This book explores and challenges conventional maps and understandings of Europe and the Americas by examining the cross-border bridge between French Guiana and Brazil, highlighting the ways in which borderland inhabitants deal with inequalities and the closed Amazonian border in everyday life. It appeals to scholars of sociology and border studies with interests in postcolonialism, memory, and inequality.

Format: Hardback
Length: 154 pages
Publication date: 31 December 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This captivating book delves into the intricate tapestry of Europe and the Americas, offering a fresh and thought-provoking perspective. By seamlessly intertwining rich ethnographic descriptions with an innovative theoretical framework, it challenges and disrupts conventional maps and understandings of these regions. Through a meticulous examination of the recently inaugurated cross-border bridge between France's overseas department of French Guiana and Brazil's northern state of Amapá, which serves as a one-way street and perpetuates inequalities in a historically deeply entangled region, the book forefronts the ways in which borderland inhabitants, including indigenous women, illegalized migrants, and local politicians, navigate and cope with these disparities in their daily lives. This study, which challenges the coloniality of memory, unveils how the borderland along and across the Oyapock River, far from being a mere hinterland of France and Brazil, illuminates intertwined histories and their attendant inequalities on a grand scale. As such, this volume holds immense appeal to scholars of sociology and border studies, with a keen interest in postcolonialism, memory, and inequality.

Weight: 460g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032045115