Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-29529-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 418 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

The Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands revisits and reassesses the concept of borderlands in Europe, balancing case-specific perspectives with rich theoretical and conceptual avenues of research.

The significance of the transformations after the fall of the Soviet Union made European borders central to the emergence of border studies as an emerging field of study, and since then, the financial crisis, rising migration, Brexit, and the Covid-19 pandemic have continued to make European borderlands a focus of research, national and international policy, media and everyday concern. Bringing together a wealth of cross-cutting and empirically rigorous international scholarship, the handbook investigates European borderlands as spaces of encounter and political, social and cultural change. The book depicts borderlands both as fundamentally relational and ambiguous products of fanciful geographical imagination, as well as real and lived places in which communities engage in different forms of integration, differentiation and contestation, at many levels of political, economic, geographic and social interaction. Drawing on a range of different disciplinary perspectives, the handbook covers key topics such as security, migration, social inequality and justice, cross-border governance, cooperation and development, environmental threats, health and disease, and conflicts over citizenship, sovereignty and territory.

This handbook provides the perfect guide to understanding the multilayered complexities surrounding borderlands, and as such will be of interest to researchers across the fields of geography, politics, migration studies, international relations, anthropology, sociology, tourism, cultural studies, and European studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, James W.

Wilson, Thomas M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: European Borderlands as Arenas, Platforms and Mirrors of Transformation  Section One: Borderlands of (In)security and Control  2. ‘Crisis’ in the Channel? Practices of Securitization and Epistemic Borderwork in the British/European Borderlands  3. Borderland Geopolitics: The Unsettledness of European Borders  4. Borderlands into Bloodlands, The Ukrainian-Russian Border and the End of the “Post-Soviet”  5. People as Weapons. Securitization, Moral Arguments and Nature on the EU-Belarus Border  6. European Border Bystanders: More than Human and more than European Border Stories  7. The Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis on Cross-Border Cooperation in Europe  Section Two: Creativity, Cooperation and Resilience  8. The Finnish-Swedish Borderland as a Resilient Space of Cross-Border Relations  9. The Greater Region, or the Paradox of Cross-border Integration  10. The Galicia-Northern Portugal Euroregion as a Cooperative Borderland  11. Border Twin Cities in Europe: An Outline of the Phenomenon and Its Study  12. Collaborative Borderscaping; Using the Border as a Resource for Cross-Border Spatial Design  13. Bordering and Cross-Bordering at the Italy-France Frontier  Section Three: Mashing and Clashing Sovereignties and Identities  14. Mashing and Clashing Sovereignties: How Brexit Was Conceived in the Irish Borderlands  15. Banal and Instrumental Brexitism in the Northern Ireland Borderlands  16. Imbricated Borderlands in the European Governance of Refugeehood  17. Populism and Borderlands: The Use of Spatial Objects in the Name of the People  18. From “Borderless World” to “Borders are Everywhere”. The Boundary Work of Refugees and Volunteers in Denmark after the “Return Turn”  19. The Danish-German Borderland  Section Four: European Borderlands in (Post)Globalization  20. Hungary as a Borderland Nation  21. Borderlands Geo(ethno)politics at the EU’s External Frontiers: The Case of Transcarpathia  22. Turkey as a European Borderland: Syrian Displacement, Disaster and Security  23. Territorial Security Walls, Sovereignty, and the Reconstruction of the Nation-State  24. Whose Border, Which Crisis? Illiberalism and the (Re)nationalization of Poland’s Eastern Frontier, 2015-2022  25. Transboundary Nature Protection and National Parks in European Borderlands  26. The Shifting Significance of the Finnish-Russian Borderland

Über Autor(innen)

James W. Scott is Professor of Regional and Border Studies for the Karelian Institute at the University of Eastern Finland.

Thomas M. Wilson is Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA.