Borders of the European Union : Strategies of Crossing and Resistance
edited by :
Paul BAUER and Mathilde DARLEY
Prague, CEFRES, 2007, 294 p.
ISBN 978-80-86311-00-5
In the European post-Cold-War context, marked by the end of the bipolar world order which had played an essential role in the sacralization of borders, is the national border as a producer of spaces and representations to disappear, transcended by processes of economic and political integration at local and European level ? Or do we observe, at the local scale, a relative autonomy of the way of living the “limit” and of its representations vis-à-vis national and regional policies ? Are lines of rupture similar within the European space and at its periphery ? Are they becoming more and more numerous and multiform or are they, on the contrary, harmonizing as a result of a global political approach of “transborder” practices ? The texts gathered in this book should not be seen as a collection of answers to contemporary interrogations that the “frontier phenomenon” raises in a territorially, politically and economically mutating Europe. But they contribute to nourish a common reflection, through the exposition of different border situations at the margins of or within the European Union : the one of the relation between, on the one side, the emergence of a "European model" of border development and control, and, on the other, local economic needs, the historical thickness of local and national experiences, and the construction of identities.
Contents
"Prefaces" Michel Foucher / Hastings Donnan
"Introduction" Paul Bauer, Mathilde Darley
"Outer Borders, Inner Boundaries in Finland : The Reconstructed Russian Border and the Changing Geography of Memory" Jocelyn Parot
"Multicultural Policy as a Resisting Strategy of a Border Society : The uses of Ethnicity in the Spanish Enclave of Melilla" Eduard Rodriguez-Martin
"Practices and Discourses of Uneven Development : The Role of Border in Cultural Politics of the Identity of the Belarusian Community in Warsaw" Siarhei Liubimau
"New Forms of Mobility at the Romanian-Moldovan Border : European Enlargement and Changing Living Strategies" Bénédicte Michalon
"Borders : A Resource for Underground Economies" Pauline Carnet
"Are Cross-Border Urban Spaces European Integration Patterns at Local Level ? Analysis of the Management of Urban Areas astride the ’French Border’" Bernard Reitel
"Everyday Life Near State Borders. The Social Effects of the Changing Status of Borders in Central Europe (Romania – Hungary)" Emmanuel Bioteau
"De-Traditionalizing the Cross-Border Co-Operation Practices : Interests, Values and “Culture” at the Finnish-Russian Boundary" Karri Kiiskinen
"The Primeval Forest at the Belarusian Border in Poland : Constituting and Crossing Borders" Eunice Blavascunas
"The Tri-National Prespa Park in Albania, Greece and Macedonia (FYROM) : Using Environment to Define the New Boundaries of the European Union" Jean Gardin
"Conclusion" Paul Bauer, Mathilde Darley
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