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This book offers new insights into the current, highly complex border transitions taking place at the EU internal and external border areas, as well as globally. It focuses on new frontiers and intersections between borders, borderlands and resilience, developing new understandings of resilience through the prism of borders. The book provides new perspectives into how different groups of people and communities experience, adapt and resist the transitions and uncertainties of border closures and securitization in their everyday and professional lives. The book also provides new methodological guidelines for the study of borders and multi-sited bordering and resilience processes.
The book bridges border studies and social scientific resilience research in new and innovative. It will be of interest to students and scholars in geography, political studies, international relations, security studies and anthropology.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Embedding Borderlands Resilience. Part I Borders and resilience in 'exceptional circumstances. 2. Border security interventions and borderland resilience. 3. Cross-border resilience in Higher Education: Brexit and its impact on Irish - Northern Irish university cross-border cooperation. 4. Politics of resilience... politics of borders? In-mobility, insecurity and Schengen 'exceptional circumstances' in the time of COVID-19 at the Spanish-Portuguese border. Part II Tracing space: Social relations and movement as resilience. 5. Resilience at Hungary's borders: between everyday adaptations and political resistance. 6. Mobility turbulences and second-home resilience across the Finnish-Russian border. 7. "Stateless" yet resilient: Refusal, disruption and movement along the border of Bangladesh and India. Part III Making time: Identity-formation and historical memory as resilience. 8. Schleswig: From a land-in-between to a National Borderland. 9. Borderlands, minority language revitalization and resilience thinking. 10. A Resilient Bel Paese? Investigating an Italian Diasporic Translocality between France and Luxembourg. 11. Line-practice as resilience strategy: The Istrian experience. 12. Epilogue. Index
About the author
Dorte Jagetic Andersen, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark
Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Professor in human geography, University of Oulu, Finland
Summary
This book offers new insights into the current, highly complex border transitions taking place at the EU internal and external border areas, as well as globally. It focuses on new frontiers and intersections between borders, borderlands and resilience, developing new understandings of resilience through the prism of borders.
