"I am From Busia!": Everyday Trading and Health Service Provision at the Kenya-Uganda Border as Place-Making Activities
"I am From Busia!": Everyday Trading and Health Service Provision at the Kenya-Uganda Border as Place-Making Activities
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10.1080/08865655.2013.862756
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2013-01-01
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Allen, William
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作者：
Allen, William
人类学、政治学和历史学的重要研究人员从空间转向中获益，或者说，通过实践和感知产生的空间影响可观察到的社会行动的想法，在展示边界上的人们如何从他们独特的位置中获得特定的经济和社会利益。这在非洲边境的情况下尤其重要，因为在那里，国家的存在往往受到地方议程的修改或抵制。然而，较少的工作探讨如何跨境活动，当地持有的看法，以及地理位置相互作用，以产生不同的版本，这意味着什么是“在”边境过境者和居民自己。本文，在回应呼吁跨学科和多视角的方法来边境研究，认为理论边境城镇作为动态的“地方”澄清个人如何影响和构建不同的意义和跨越边界。它通过研究肯尼亚-乌干达边境发生的两个日常活动领域：跨境贸易和卫生服务提供，从经验上发展了这一想法。
Critical researchers in anthropology, politics, and history have profited from the spatial turn, or the idea that spaces produced through practices and perceptions influence observable social action, in showing how people at borders derive specific economic and social benefits from their unique location. This is especially relevant in African border contexts where state presence is often modified or resisted by local agendas. However, less work examines how cross-border activities, locally-held perceptions, and geographic location interact to generate different versions of what it means to "be at" a border for border-crossers and residents themselves. This paper, in responding to calls for interdisciplinary and multiperspectival approaches to border studies, argues that theorizing border towns as dynamic "places" clarifies how individuals impact and construct different meanings at and across borders. It empirically develops this idea by examining two spheres of everyday activity occurring at the Kenya-Uganda border: cross-border trade and health service provision.