Bridging Fluid Borders - 9781032045115

Taylor & Francis

Bridging Fluid BordersEntanglements in the French-Brazilian Borderland\nAuthor(s): Fabio Santos\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032045115, 978-1032045115\nSynopsis\nInterweaving rich ethnographic descriptions with an innovative theoretical approach, this book explores and unsettles conventional maps and understandings of Europe and the Americas. Through an examination of the recently inaugurated cross-border bridge between Frances overseas department of French Guiana and Brazils northern state of Amap, which effectively acts as a one-way street and serves to perpetuate inequalities in a historically deeply entangled region, it foregrounds the ways in which borderland inhabitants such asindigenous women, illegalised migrants, and local politicians deal with these inequalities and the increasingly closed Amazonian border in everyday life. A study that challenges the coloniality of memory, this volume shows how the.