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.

(2015). Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making [edited book - curatela]. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/62070

Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making

BRAMBILLA, Chiara;BOCCHI, Gianluca
2015-01-01

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.
CE.R.CO - Centro di ricerca sulla complessità - Research Centre on the Complexity (attivo fino al 2015)
curatela (libro)
Inglese
2015
cartaceo
online
9781472451460
278
United Kingdom
Dorchester
ASHGATE
Settore M-GGR/01 - Geografia
Settore M-DEA/01 - Discipline Demoetnoantropologiche
Settore M-FIL/02 - Logica e Filosofia della Scienza
Borderscapes; Borders; Boundaries; Borderlands; Social Aspects; Political Aspects; Cultural Aspects; Case Studies
   EUBORDERSCAPES: Bordering, Political Landscapes and Social Arenas: Potentials and Challenges of Evolving Border Concepts in a post-Cold War World
   FP7
4
open
Brambilla, Chiara; Laine, Jussi; Scott, James W.; Bocchi, Gianluca
1.6 Curatele - Editorships::1.6.01 Curatele - Edited books
Non definito
info:eu-repo/semantics/other
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