ABSTRACT

Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic standing. Contemporary bordering processes and practices are examined through the borderscapes lens to uncover important connections between borders as a ’challenge' to national (and EU) policies and borders as potential elements of political innovation through conceptual (re-)framings of social, political, economic and cultural spaces. The authors offer a nuanced and critical re-reading and understanding of the border not as an entity to be taken for granted, but as a place of investigation and as a resource in terms of the construction of novel (geo)political imaginations, social and spatial imaginaries and cultural images. In so doing, they suggest that rethinking borders means deconstructing the interweaving between political practices of inclusion-exclusion and the images created to support and communicate them on the cultural level by Western territorialist modernity. The result is a book that proposes a wandering through a constellation of bordering policies, discourses, practices and images to open new possibilities for thinking, mapping, acting and living borders under contemporary globalization.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

Thinking, Mapping, Acting and Living Borders under Contemporary Globalisation

part I|52 pages

Conceptual Change in Thinking Borders

chapter Chapter 1|14 pages

Spaces, Lines, Borders: Imaginaries and Images

chapter Chapter 2|14 pages

Beyond Constructivism

Europeanisation and Bordering under the Impact of Power and Imaginaries

chapter Chapter 3|12 pages

Redesigning Borderlands

Using the Janus-Face of Borders as a Resource

chapter Chapter 4|10 pages

New Geo-graphies of Border(land)-scapes

part II|46 pages

Everyday Processes of Bordering

chapter Chapter 5|12 pages

Remaking the Border

Post-Soviet Borderscapes in the Finnish Media

chapter Chapter 7|10 pages

On the Metaphor of the ‘Bulgarian Question' in Croatian Literary Narrative

Enquiring into the Key Bordering Themes of Post-1989 Balkans

chapter Chapter 8|12 pages

The Construction of Socio-Spatial Identities alongside the Schengen Border

Bordering and Border-Crossing Processes in the Croatian–Slovenian Borderlands

part III|66 pages

Exploring Shifting Euro/Mediterranean Borderscapes

chapter Chapter 9|12 pages

Navigating the Euro/African Border and Migration Nexus through the Borderscapes Lens

Insights from the LampedusaInFestival

chapter Chapter 11|10 pages

Humanitarianism and Migration in the Mediterranean Borderscape

The Italian–North African Border between Sea Patrols and Integration Measures

chapter Chapter 12|10 pages

Between Asylum and Security

Reconfigurations in the EU/Turkish Borderscapes

part IV|40 pages

Rebordering State Spaces

chapter Chapter 15|10 pages

Metamorphosis of City Borders

chapter Chapter 16|10 pages

Everyday Bordering and Raids Every Day

The Invisible Empire and Metropolitan Borderscapes

chapter Chapter 17|8 pages

Living through the Camp

Roma Segregation and Border-Crossing in the City of Naples

part V|40 pages

Cultural Production and the Emergence of New Borderscapes

chapter Chapter 19|12 pages

Seeing and Thinking Borders

chapter Chapter 21|10 pages

Operationalising Borders

Euro/African Borderscapes on Stage