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Informationen zum Autor Chris Rumford is Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology at Royal Holloway! University of London where he is also co-director of the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics. He is the author of European Cohesion: Contradictions in EU Integration (Palgrave! 2000)! The European Union: A Political Sociology (Blackwell! 2002)! co-author (with Gerard Delanty) of Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization (Routledge! 2005)! and editor of Cosmopolitanism and Europe (Liverpool University Press! 2007). Zusammenfassung The book explores the ability of citizens to participate in the making of borders, and the empowerment that can result from this bordering and debordering activity. ‘Borderwork’ is the name given to the ways in which ordinary people can make and unmake borders. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: citizens and borderwork in Europe Chris Rumford 2. Border crossings and "border business": the everyday construction of Finnish-Swedish border Anssi Paasi and Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola 3. "T.H. Marshall at the limit: hiding out in Maas-Rhein Euregio" Olivier Thomas Kramsch and Bohdana Dimitrovova 4. Reconfiguring spaces of conflict: Northern Ireland and the impact of European integration Thomas Diez and Katy Hayward 5. Borderwork beyond inside/outside? Frontex, the citizen-detective and the war on terror Nick Vaughan-Williams 6. Fluid boundaries - British binge drinking and European civility: alcohol and the production and consumption of public space Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine, and Sarah L. Holloway 7. Rebordering the city for new Security challenges: from counter-terrorism to community resilience Jon Coaffee and Peter Rogers 8. Towards social Europeanization and the neutralization of territorial and cultural borders through micro-relationships: a case study of skilled EU migrants in Manchester Paul Kennedy 9. CittàSlow: producing slowness against the fast life Mara Meile ...
