European Politics of Borders, Border Symbolism and Cross-Border Cooperation

A Companion to Border Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 83-99

  Scott, James Wesley ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

"bordering" through ideology, symbols, cultural mediation; Borders, in situations of conflict, the historical supporting territorial; Central and Eastern Europe, changing with the removal of the "Iron Curtain"; Conflict resolution, cross border, intercultural understanding; European integration and study of borders; European, border symbolism and cross border cooperation; External projection of the EU, outer border and border policies; The EU, transcending national borders, and logics of division; The notion of bordering, processes that cannot be finalized; Understanding of borders, social and cultural, than political

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882289610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118255223.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

References (68)

1. Albert, Mathias, Diez, Thomas and Stetter, Stephan. 2008. The transformative power of integration: conceptualizing border confl icts. In Thomas Diez, Matthias Albert and Stephan Stetter, eds, The European Union and Border Confl icts: The Power of Integration and Association, pp. 13-32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Anderson, James, O' Dowd, Liam and Wilson, Thomas M. 2003. Culture, cooperation and borders. In James Anderson, Liam O' Dowd and Thomas M. Wilson, eds, Culture and Cooperation in Europe' s Borderlands, pp.13-29. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
3. Armbruster, Heidi and Meinhof, Ulrike H. 2004. Memories of home? Narratives of readjustment on the German/Polish and former German/German borders. In Joanna Thornborrow and Jennifer Coates, eds, The Sociolinguistics of Narrative, pp. 41-65.Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
4. Belokurova, Elena. 2010. Civil society discourses in Russia: The infl uence of the European Union and the role of EU-Russia cooperation. Journal of European Integration 32 (5): 457-474.
5. Benhabib, S. and Resnik, J., eds. 2009.Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender. New York: New York University Press.
6. Berg, Eiki and van Houtum, Henk, eds.2003. Mapping Borders between Territories: Discourses and Practices. Aldershot: Ashgate.
7. Bielawska, Agnieszka and Wojciechowski, Krzysztof. 2008. Europ ä ischer Anspruch und Regionale Aspekte. Grenz ü berschreitende Universit ä re Zusammenarbeit in der Deutsch-Polnischen Grenzregion Angesichts der Zukünftigen Herausforderungen in Europa. Berlin: Logos.
8. Bigo, Didier and Guild, Elspeth, eds. 2005.Controlling Frontiers: Free Movement into and within Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate.
9. Bojar, Ewa. 2008. Euroregions in Poland.Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografi e 87 (5): 442-447.
10. Böök, Netta. 2004. Border Karelia through rose-coloured glasses? Gazes upon a ceded territory. Fennia 182 (1): 33-45.
11. Bürkner, Hans-Joachim. 2002. Border milieux, transboundary communication and local confl ict dynamics in German-Polish border towns: the case of Guben and Gubin.Die Erde 133: 339-351.
12. Bürkner, Hans-Joachim. 2006. Regional development in times of economic crisis and population loss: the case of Germany' s eastern border regionalism. In James Wesley Scott, ed., EU Enlargement, Region - Building and Shifting Borders of Inclusion and Exclusion, pp. 207-215. Aldershot: Ashgate.
13. Bürkner, Hans-Joachim. 2009. Der lokale Staat als Akteur im Feld kreativer Nischen ö konomien. In Bastian Lange, Ares Kalandides, Birgit St ö ber and Inga Wellmann, eds, Governance der Kreativwirtschaft.Diagnosen und Handlungsoptionen, pp. 247-259. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
14. Cronberg, Tarja. 2000. Euroregions in the making: the case of Euroregio Karelia. In Pirkkolisa Ahponen and Pirjo Jukarainen, eds, Tearing Down the Curtain, Opening the Gates: Northern Boundaries in Change, pp.170-183. Jyv ä skyl ä, Finland: University of Jyv ä skylä.
15. Dimitrovova, Bohdana. 2008. The re-making of Europe' s borders through the European neighbourhood policy. Journal of Borderlands Studies 23 (1): 53-68.
16. Donnan, Hastings and Wilson, Thomas M. 1999. Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State. Oxford: Berg.
17. Eskelinen, Heikki. 2000. Co-operation across the line of exclusion: the 1990s experience at the Finnish-Russian border. European Research in Regional Science 10: 137-150.
18. Harmsen, Robert and Wilson, Thomas M. 2000. Introduction. In Robert Harmsen and Thomas M. Wilson, eds, Europeanization: Institutions, Identities and Citizenship, pp. 13-26. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
19. Häyrynen, Maunu. 2004. A periphery lost: the representation of Karelia in Finnish national landscape imagery. Fennia 182 (1): 23-32.
20. Häyrynen, Maunu. 2008. A kaleidoscopic nation: the Finnish national landscape imagery. In M. Jones and K.R. Olwig, eds, Nordic Landscapes: Region and Belonging on the Northern Edge of Europe, pp. 483 - 510. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
21. Isachenko, Gregory A. 2004. The landscape of the Karelian Isthmus and its imagery since 1944. Fennia 182 (1): 47-59.
22. Isachenko, Gregory A. 2009. Cultural landscape dynamics of transboundary areas: a case study of the Karelian Isthmus. Journal of Borderlands Studies 24 (2): 78-91.
23. Izotov, Alexander. 2011. Repositioning a border town: Sortavala. In Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka Liikanen and James W. Scott, eds, The EU-Russia Borderland. London: Routledge.
24. Jönsson, Christer, T ä gil, Sven and T ö rnqvist, Gunnar. 2000. Organizing European Space.London: Sage.
25. Kocka, J ü rgen. 2007. The mapping of Europe' s borders: past. present and future.In Hans-Å ke Persson and Bo Strath, eds, Refl ections of Europe: Defi ning a Political Order in Time and Space, pp. 37-48. Brussels: Peter Lang.
26. Kolossov, Vladimir. 2005. Border studies: changing perspectives and theoretical approaches. Geopolitics 10: 606-632.
27. Kotula, Andrzej. 1994. Die deutsch-polnische Grenze in der polnischen Presse. Transodra 4-5: 38-40.
28. Kramsch, Olivier. 2010. Camuspace: Towards a geneaology of Europe' s de-colonial frontier In Chiara Brambilla and Bruno Riccio, eds, Transnational Migrations, Cosmopolitanism and Dis-located Borders, pp. 87-118.Rimini: Guaraldi.
29. Kramsch, Olivier and Brambilla, Chiara.2007. Transboundary Europe through a West African looking glass: cross-border integration, "colonial difference" and the chance for "border thinking." Comparativ, 17 (4): 95-115.
30. Kratke, Stefan, Heeg, Susanne and Stein, Rolf. 1997. Regionen im Umbruch. Probleme der Regionalentwicklung an den Grenzen zwischen "Ost" und "West." Frankfurt: Campus.
31. Laine, Jussi and Demidov, Andrei. 2011.Civil society organisations as drivers of cross-border interaction: on whose terms, for which purpose? In Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka Liikanen and James W. Scott, eds, The EU-Russia Borderland. London: Routledge.
32. Lenz, Sebastian, Herfert, G ü nter and Bergfeld, Annedore. 2009. The German - Polish border region from a German perspective - quo vadis? In Wendelin Strubelt, ed., Guiding Principles for Spatial Development in Germany: German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy, pp. 51-66.Berlin: Springer.
33. Lepik, Katri-Liis. 2009. Euroregions as mechanisms for strengthening cross-border co - operation in the Baltic Sea region. Trames 13 (3): 265-282.
34. Liikanen, Ilkka. 2011. Origins of the eastern border as the grand controversy of Finnish national history writing. In Tibor Frank and Frank Hadler, eds, Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts: Overlapping National Histories in Modern Europe, pp 177-199.London: Palgrave Macmillan.
35. Linde-Laursen, Anders. 2010. Bordering.Identity Processes between the National and Personal. Aldershot: Ashgate.
36. Matthiesen, Ulf and B ü rkner, Hans-Joachim.2001. Antagonistic structures in border areas: local milieux and local politics in the Polish-German twin city Gubin/Guben.GeoJournal 54: 43-50.
37. Maull, Otto. 1925. Politische Geographie.Berlin: Gebr ü der Borntraeger.
38. Meinhof, Ulrike H., ed. 2002. Living (with) Borders: Identity Discourses on East-West Borders in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate.
39. Nagel, Joane. 2003. Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
40. Newman, David. 2006. Borders and bordering: towards an interdisciplinary dialogue.European Journal of Social Theory 9 (2): 171-186.
41. Nielsen, Kristian, Berg, Eiki and Roll, Gulnara.2009. Undiscovered avenues? Estonian civil society organisations as agents of Europeanisation Trames 13 (3): 248-264.
42. Niukko, Kirsi. 2009. The concept of landscape among Karelian migrants in Finland.Journal of Borderlands Studies 24 (2): 62-77.
43. Nyman, Jopi. 2009. From black Britain to the Caribbean: the return of the (im)migrant in Caryl Phillips' s "A State of Independence. " In Jopi Nyman, ed., Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction, pp. 37-56. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
44. O' Dwyer, Conor. 2006. Reforming regional governance in East Central Europe: Europeanization or domestic politics as usual? East European Politics and Societies 20 (2): 219-253.
45. Paasi, Anssi. 1999. Boundaries as social practice and discourse: The Finnish-Russian border. Regional Studies 33 (7): 669-680.
46. Paasi, Anssi. 2001. "A borderless world ": Is it only rhetoric or will boundaries disappear in the globalizing world? In Paul Reuber and G ü nter Wolkersdorfer, eds, Politische Geographie. Handlungsorientierte Ans ä tze und Critical Geopolitics, pp. 133-145.Heidelberg: Heidelberger Geographische Arbeiten.
47. Papadakis, Yiannis. 2005. Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide.London: I.B. Tauris.
48. Perkmann, Markus. 2002. Euroregions: institutional entrepreneurship in the European Union. In Markus Perkmann and Ngai - Ling Sum, eds, Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Regions, pp. 103-124.Basingtoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
49. Perkmann, Markus. 2005. Cross-border co-operation as policy entrepreneurship: explaining the variable success of European cross-border regions. CSGR Working Paper 166/05, University of Warwick.
50. Pickering, Sharon. 2011. Women, Borders, and Violence: Current Issues in Asylum, Forced Migration, and Traffi cking. Berlin: Springer.
51. Popescu, Gabriel. 2006. Geopolitics of scale and cross-border cooperation in Eastern Europe: the case of the Romanian-Ukrainian - Moldovan borderlands. In James Wesley Scott, ed., EU Enlargement, Region Building and Sifting Borders of Inclusion and Exclusion, pp. 35-51. Aldershot: Ashgate.
52. Popescu, Gabriel. 2008. The confl icting logics of crossborder reterritorialization: geopolitics of Euroregions in Eastern Europe. Political Geography 27 (4): 418-438.
53. Ratzel, Friedrich. 1903. Politische Geographie: Oder Die Geographie der Staaten, des Verkehres und des Krieges. Munich: Oldenbourg.
54. Schimanski, Johan and Wolfe, Stephen. 2010.Cultural production and negotiation of borders: introduction to the dossier. Journal of Borderlands Studies 25 (1): 39-49.
55. Scott, James. 2000. Transboundary cooperation on Germany' s borders: strategic regionalism through multilevel governance.Journal of Borderlands Studies 15 (1): 143-167.
56. Scott, James, ed. 2006. EU Enlargement, Region-building and Shifting Borders of Inclusion and Exclusion. Aldershot: Ashgate.
57. Scott, James. 2007. Cross-border regionalization in an enlarging EU: Hungarian - Austrian and German-Polish cases. In Harlan Koff, ed., Deceiving (Dis)appearances: Analyzing Current Developments in European and North American Border Regions, pp. 37-58. Bern: Peter Lang.
58. Scott, James. 2011a. Borders, border studies and EU enlargement. In Doris Wastl-Water, ed., Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies, pp. 123-142. Aldershot: Ashgate.
59. Scott, James. 2011b. Refl ections on EU geopolitics: consolidation, neighbourhood and civil society in the reordering of European space. Geopolitics 16 (1): 146-175.
60. Scott, James and van Houtum, Henk. 2009.Reflections on EU territoriality and the " bordering" of Europe. Political Geography 28 (5): 271-273.
61. Scott, James and Liikanen, Ilkka. 2010. Civil society and the "neighbourhood ": Europeanization through cross-border cooperation? Journal of European Integration 32 (5): 423-438.
62. Shields, Rob. 1991. Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity.London: Routledge.
63. Shliamin, V.A. 2001. Euregio Karelia-new challenges and new opportunities. Bulletin of the TACIS Project: Euregio Karelia as a Tool of Civil Society 1. At http://www.gov.karelia.ru/News/2001/0518_01a_e.html#05 (accessed Mar. 19, 2010).
64. Smith, Karen. 2005. The outsiders: the European neighbourhood policy. International Affairs 81 (4): 757-773.
65. Tamminen, Tanja. 2004. Cross-border cooperation in the southern balkans: local, national or European identity politics? Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 4 (3): 399-418.
66. van Houtum, Henk. 2002. Borders of comfort, spatial economic bordering procEUROPEAN POLITICS OF BORDERS 99 esses in the European Union. Regional and Federal Studies 12 (4): 37-58.
67. van Houtum, Henk and Boedeltje, Freerk.2009. Europe' s shame: death at the borders of the EU. Antipode 41 (2): 226-230.
68. van Houtum, Henk and van Naerssen, Thomas. 2002. Bordering, ordering, and othering. Journal of Economic and Social Geography 93 (2): 125-136.