Borders on the mind: re-framing border thinking

Agnew, John

doi:10.3402/egp.v1i4.1892

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“…Ya en la década de 2000, diferentes investigadores han insistido en la necesidad de adoptar una perspectiva de más amplios enfoques en el acercamiento a las fronteras (PERKMANN y SUM, 2002;PAASI, 2005; VAN HOUTUM et al, 2005;NEWMAN, 2006;AGNEW, 2008;KUUS, 2010), y en su análisis conceptual no como estructuras permanentes y estáticas, sino como procesos histó-ricamente contingentes (NEWMAN y PAASI, 1998). En todo caso, si bien las fronteras han sido proyecciones territoriales del poder infraestructural del Estado (O'DOWD, 2010), seguir imaginándolas de modo genérico como las líneas fronterizas en las que se materializa el control político y social a través de la separación de espacios solo recogería una parte de su entidad conceptual en el conjunto del planeta, porque el proceso de integración europea ha constituido un punto de inflexión en la historia de las fronteras, configurando una nueva noción multidimensional, que hace referencia más a la cooperación entre los pueblos, que a su separación.…”

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La Eurorregión Galicia-Norte de Portugal y los modelos de cooperación transfronteriza = The Euroregion Galicia-Norte de Portugal and the models of cross-border cooperation

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Padín

2017

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<p>La perspectiva territorial de las relaciones fronterizas entre las regiones Galicia y Norte de Portugal mostraba ya un marcado acento atlántico desde finales del siglo XVIII, apoyado en las favorables condiciones de las infraestructuras de comunicación próximas al litoral, que definían un eje de tránsito cada vez más utilizado en sus intercambios comerciales. Después de su incorporación a la Comunidad Europea y siguiendo las directrices de la iniciativa comunitaria INTERREG, las instituciones regionales deciden crear la Comunidad de Trabajo Galicia-Norte de Portugal en 1991, como un instrumento de cooperación para consolidar un espacio común. Ese modelo institucional chocó en diversas ocasiones con las políticas de las administraciones locales, no siempre del mismo color ideológico, lo que llevó a los regidores de las principales ciudades de las dos regiones a constituir en 1992 el Eixo Atlántico del Noroeste Peninsular para crear un área de cooperación transfronteriza, con base municipal y una dinámica propia de influencia sobre los centros de decisión europeos, diferenciándose así de las acciones de la Comunidad de Trabajo, más interesada en eliminar las barreras físicas de las fronteras. En realidad, sus objetivos eran complementarios y finalmente, en 2000, el Eixo Atlántico se integró en la Comunidad de Trabajo, sumando de esa forma las sinergias de los dos enfoques de la cooperación. En este trabajo se analiza también una de sus actuaciones más singulares, la configuración de la eurociudad Chaves-Verín, como construcción ejemplar de un espacio transfronterizo común.</p><p>The territorial perspective of cross-border relations between Galicia and the Northern region of Portugal showed a marked Atlantic accent since the late XVIII. This fact was supported by the conditions of communication infrastructures near the coast, which defined a transit axis used in their commercial exchanges. In 1991, after joining the European Community and following the guidelines of the Community Initiative INTERREG, the regional institutions created the Working Community Galicia-Northern Region as an instrument of cooperation to consolidate a common space. This institutional model came up against local governments’ policies several times, from different political parties. In 1992, this fact made that the main cities majors established the Northwest Peninsular Atlantic Axe. The purpose was creating an area of cross-border cooperation with its own dynamic influence on European centers of decision. The aim was differentiating itself from the actions of the Working Community, more interested in removing old border’s physical barriers. In fact, its objectives were complementary. Finally, in 2000, the Atlantic Axis joined the Community, creating synergies of both cooperation approaches. This paper also analyzes one of its most singular actions: the configuration of Chaves-Verín Eurocity, as an example to be followed of a common border space.</p>

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La Eurorregión Galicia-Norte de Portugal y los modelos de cooperación transfronteriza = The Euroregion Galicia-Norte de Portugal and the models of cross-border cooperation

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2017

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“…Agnew (2008) suggests that borders matter in two ways. First, they have real effects: borders are mobilized to both limit and allow movement of things, money, and people, a function which seems to have witnessed the hardening of borders since the turn of the millennium.…”

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“…Political geographer Prescott (1987) defi ned the terminology of border studies straightforwardly: boundary was the abstract line that separates state territories, frontier was a zone category, and borders were areas adjacent to a territory. Such characterizations were problematic in their blunt state-centrism and in anchoring the language of border studies to defi nite "artefacts on the ground" (Agnew, 2008). Consequently, boundaries were seen as dividers, edges of power containers that, after being established, were relatively stable, and were often glorifi ed as 'holy' entities in state ideologies.…”

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Border Studies Reanimated: Going beyond the Territorial/Relational Divide

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2012

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Border studies reanimated: going beyond the territorial/relational divide 'Border' has been a key category for social scientists since the 19th century when modern state-building and nation-building processes began to intensify in Europe. It is well known how Friedrich Ratzel, for example, stressed the importance of borders for 'political balance'. A lesser known pioneer in border studies is the famous sociologist Georg Simmel, for whom "the boundary is not a spatial fact with sociological consequences, but a sociological fact that forms itself spatially" (1997, page 142). He discussed the roles of borders in social life and for consciousness, and concluded: "By virtue of the fact that we have boundaries everywhere and always, so accordingly we are boundaries" (cited in Ethington, 2007, page 480). Tester (1993, page 9) condensed Simmel's ideas as follows:" The boundaries make life meaningful … but the very meaningfulness of life as something with a location and most signifi cantly a direction (i.e. life going as somewhere other than here), implies the fl ow of life over permanent boundaries." It is a sort of a paradox that the 'border' quickly became a catchword 100 years later, simultaneously when the ideas of cosmopolitanism and the postnational/denationalized world as well as the neoliberal rhetoric on a 'borderless world' appeared on the agenda. New interest was aroused after the implosion of the ideological line between the capitalist and socialist world at the turn of the 1990s, an event that gave rise to both new ethnonational borders and ethnic violence. New attention also reverberated with 'weak' and 'strong' views on globalization (Paasi, 2003). More than any other event, the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the USA and the consequent 'war on terror' generated security-related border research in which biopolitics, circulation, and technologies became key issues (Dillon and Lobo-Guerrero, 2008). Indeed, if Simmel once stated that "people are boundaries", scholars are increasingly noting how people become borders (Balibar, 1998) and how human bodies are key sites of borders in the current, biometrically managed world (Amoore, 2006). This commentary will problematize the concept of border in a situation in which the social and political meanings of borders have been rethought in academia as well as in the context of securitization of state and suprastate (like the EU) spaces, and in which bounded spaces still have a role to play in the mobilization of emotions, racism, xenophobia, and, ultimately, violence. While only two of the world's total twenty-nine major armed confl icts during 2001-10 have been interstate (SIPRI, 2011), a remarkable hardening of state borders has simultaneously occurred around the world (Rosière and Jones, 2012). I will fi rst look at how the understanding of borders has evolved and how relational thinking contests traditional border studies. Secondly, I will take some conceptual steps towards a broader understanding of state borders that highlights both their porous and not-so-open qualit...

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“…a control barrier) is diminishing, and in the "right" conditions its negative effects are noticeable only in a small way, although they do not disappear completely (Ackleson, 2005). The characteristic feature of a border is that it can be a barrier, but that it can also provide certain opportunities: it can bring benefits, but also problems (Agnew, 2008;Sohn and Lara-Valencia, 2013;Van der Velde and Spierings, 2010). What is important, then, is that both positive and negative effects of a border can be felt at the same time.…”

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Borders on the mind: re-framing border thinking

Cited by 274 publications

References 48 publications

La Eurorregión Galicia-Norte de Portugal y los modelos de cooperación transfronteriza = The Euroregion Galicia-Norte de Portugal and the models of cross-border cooperation

La Eurorregión Galicia-Norte de Portugal y los modelos de cooperación transfronteriza = The Euroregion Galicia-Norte de Portugal and the models of cross-border cooperation

Border Studies Reanimated: Going beyond the Territorial/Relational Divide

Symmetry or asymmetry? Cross-border openness of service providers in Polish-Czech and Polish-German border towns

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