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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction
part I|52 pages
Conceptual Change in Thinking Borders
chapter Chapter 2|14 pages
Beyond Constructivism
part II|46 pages
Everyday Processes of Bordering
chapter Chapter 6|10 pages
From Frontline to Borderscape: The Hizbullah Memorial Museum in South Lebanon
chapter Chapter 7|10 pages
On the Metaphor of the ‘Bulgarian Question' in Croatian Literary Narrative
chapter Chapter 8|12 pages
The Construction of Socio-Spatial Identities alongside the Schengen Border
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
chapter Chapter 11|10 pages
Humanitarianism and Migration in the Mediterranean Borderscape
chapter Chapter 12|10 pages
Between Asylum and Security
chapter Chapter 13|12 pages
Cross-Border Cooperation as a Territorial/Relational Approach to Regional Development?
chapter Chapter 14|12 pages
Addressing Euro-Mediterranean Border Imaginations from a Project-Based Perspective
part IV|40 pages
Rebordering State Spaces
chapter Chapter 16|10 pages
Everyday Bordering and Raids Every Day
chapter Chapter 17|8 pages
Living through the Camp
part V|40 pages
Cultural Production and the Emergence of New Borderscapes