Border Regions
Borders divide the familiar from the foreign, the Self from the feared Other, and with that are a persistent source of conflict. And yet we continue drawing and redrawing them, while clinging to the worlds marked out by these imaginary lines. Where does this fascination come from? In 'Border Regions', journalist Milo van Bokkum sets out to understand why the world map looks the way it does, and how people have lived along some of its most bewildering boundaries.
Non-FictionPrint
Original title
Grensstreken
Author
Milo van Bokkum
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A fascinating book that not only gets you dreaming, but also makes you think about the function and usefulness of borders.
Tzum
In 'Border Regions', you go from one surprise to the next.
de Volkskrant
Milo van Bokkum
Milo van Bokkum (b. 1994) works as an economics editor at the daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad. He studied at University College in Utrecht and St. Petersburg University in Russia, and obtained a master’s degree in Journalism and Media at the University of Amsterdam. Previously, he has done research and translation work for articles by Simon Kuper in The Financial Times. Border Regions is his first book.