ABSTRACT
As illustrated, bordering processes are inherently both good and bad, liberating and confining, agreeable and malicious. As cultural scientists, people need to come to terms with these confusions. Stressing only one aspect politics or culture, future or past, recollection or memory will encourage understandings of borders and the spaces they encompass as one-dimensional and un-reflexive. Because of such limitations, it would be inappropriate for this text to have a singular conclusion. As it happened, history formed the border in the resund during a window-of-opportunity, which enabled the boundary's development and existence under what can be perceived as ideal circumstances in relation to specific understandings of historical processes, conjunctures, and modern ideas and practices. This happened when the state patriotic structures in Denmark and Sweden followed general trends as they developed towards the European central state and absolutism, when those states in the 1800s recognized themselves as political communities, and later when these political communities were supplemented through cultural bordering.
