37.3657, Books: Borderscapes: Tufi (2026)

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-37-3657. Thu 05 Nov 2026. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 37.3657, Books: Borderscapes: Tufi (2026)

Moderator: Steven Moran (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Valeriia Vyshnevetska
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Daniel Swanson
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Editor for this issue: Daniel Swanson <daniel at linguistlist.org>

================================================================


Date: 04-Nov-2026
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Borderscapes: Tufi (2026)


Title: Borderscapes
Subtitle: The de/construction of borders as an everyday practice in
contemporary Italy
Series Title: IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society   58
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/impact.58

Author(s): Stefania Tufi

Hardback ISBN:  9789027237828 Pages:  248 Price: Europe EURO 135.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027237828 Pages:  248 Price: Europe EURO 143.10
Hardback ISBN:  9789027237828 Pages:  248 Price: U.K. £ 113.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027237828 Pages:  248 Price: U.S. $ 176.00

Abstract:

The book expands and transforms multidisciplinary scholarship on the
border by exposing the normative power of border making and
introducing novel perspectives on borders as fluid and changeable
spaces of potentiality. Building on work uncovering processes of
border de/construction, the monograph highlights the relevance of the
borderscapes framework beyond consolidated principles of
territoriality. Underpinned by the author’s extensive research into
border areas in Italy and beyond, the monograph includes several case
studies constituting inflections of the border as experienced at given
time-space junctures whilst highlighting that un/bordering is an
everyday practice. The discussions in the different chapters transcend
geographical sites to engage with key issues such as agency, affect,
authenticity and heritage. Underscoring the discursive valency of
bordering practices, and critiquing the colonial pervasiveness of
cartographic representations, the book encompasses a methodological
trajectory grounded in Linguistic Landscape studies and incorporating
ethnographic and new materialist approaches to research. It
foregrounds the role of the researcher in writing the borderscape into
existence while challenging boundaries between methodology, ontology
and epistemology.

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)


------------------------------------------------------------------------------

********************** LINGUIST List Support ***********************
Please consider donating to the Linguist List, a U.S. 501(c)(3) not for profit organization:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=87C2AXTVC4PP8

LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

Australian Linguistics Society https://als.asn.au/Home

Bloomsbury Publishing http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/browse-subjects/language-and-linguistics

Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/

De Gruyter Brill https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en

Edinburgh University Press http://www.edinburghuniversitypress.com

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) http://www.elra.info

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Language Science Press http://langsci-press.org

Lincom GmbH https://lincom-shop.eu/

MDPI Languages https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages

MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT) http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com

SIL International Publications http://www.sil.org/resources/publications

University of Toronto Press https://utppublishing.com


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-37-3657
----------------------------------------------------------