Crossing the Frontier

Rippl, Suzanne; Bücker, Nicola; Petrat, Anke; Boehnke, Klaus

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“…These studies relied on specific items on European/national identity or attachment that were available in the Eurobarometer surveys (Carey, 2002;Hooghe & Marks, 2004, 2005. It moves beyond the work of Rippl et al (2010) who analysed regional and European attachment in border regions based on the concept of transnational social capital. Being interested only in border regions in Germany and three of its neighbors, the concept measured bi-national contacts, activities, and trust in the neighbors.…”

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“…It provides no direct operationalization of Putnam's social capital theory with respect to analysing EU support. Furthermore, Rippl et al (2010) concluded that their transnational social capital had only poor or no explanatory power in predicting EU identity. As we know from the work of Kuhn (2015), however, the bi-national character of the study can explain this finding: People do not perceive their cross-border behavior in a European context.…”

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More or less integration? Examining support for different EU future scenarios in Austria

Praprotnik

Perlot

2021

European Politics and Society

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Understanding public opinion on the EU remains a pressing issue. In contrast to previous studies on EU attitudes in general, we pose the following question: Which factors help us to understand public support for five specific scenarios for the EU's future? We promote the still undertheorized identity approach that has developed alongside the utilitarian and the cue-taking perspectives. We argue that a European Social Capitalcomposed of trust, norms and networks with other Europeansis related to support for further integration scenarios. The multivariate analyses are based upon a mass survey conducted in Austria. Our results show a significant correlation between higher levels of European Social Capital and positive attitudes towards scenarios for more integration. This adds to the identity approach in the literature on EU attitudes. Our study has important implications for the EU's reform debate. If people feel emotionally connected with other Europeans, they are willing to accept deeper integration processes. Pure economic arguments seem insufficient.

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More or less integration? Examining support for different EU future scenarios in Austria

Praprotnik

Perlot

2021

European Politics and Society

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Global borderlands: a case study of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines

Reyes

2015

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Abstract:By developing the concept of "global borderlands"-semi-autonomous, foreigncontrolled geographic locations geared toward international exchange-this article shifts the focus of globalization literature from elite global cities and cities on national borders to within-country sites owned and/or operated by foreigners and defined by significant social, cultural, and economic exchange. I analyze three shared features of these sites: semi-autonomy, symbolic and geographic boundaries, and unequal relations. The multimethod analyses reveal how the concept of global borderlands can help us better understand the interactions that occur in the contemporary era of globalization across people of different nationalities, classes, and races/ethnicities as well as the complex dynamics that occur within foreign-controlled spaces. I first situate global borderlands within the literatures of global cities and traditional borderlands. Next, I use the case study of Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ), Philippines to show (1) how the semiautonomy of global borderlands produces different regulations depending on nationality, (2) how its geographic and symbolic borders differentiate this space from the surrounding community, and (3) how the semi-autonomy of these locations and their geographic and symbolic borders reproduce unequal relations. As home of the former U.S. Subic Bay Naval Base and current site of a Freeport Zone, the SBFZ serves as a particularly strategic research location to examine the different forms of interactions that occur between groups within spaces of unequal power. (Frank 1973;Prebisch 1959;Singer 1949; Chase-Dunn and Grimes 1995; Wallerstein 2004). By definition, these approaches ignore sites of significant international or intercultural exchange and interaction that occur outside these elite spaces.In contrast, scholarship on frontiers, borders, and borderlands recognizes how inequalities are reproduced in places that cross international or intercultural boundaries (Alvarez 1995; Donnan and Wilson 1999). However, we know surprisingly little about how inequalities are maintained and reproduced in spaces that are based on cultural, social, and economic interactions beyond these particular locales and those that occur within foreign-controlled spaces. Examining unequal interactions-namely, those among foreign visitors, local visitors, and local workers in institutionalized, semi-autonomous 1 I am aware of the disputes regarding whether it is within-or between-country inequality that is rising. I use "societies" here to demonstrate that there is an increasing divide between the rich and poor, whether the unit of analysis is within-or between-countries. Global borderlands 5 Global borderlands: A definitionGlobal borderlands are semi-autonomous, foreign-controlled geographic locations geared toward international exchange. By "international exchange" I mean the combination of social, cultural, and economic exchanges and interactions, since each cannot be divorced from the others. Economic exchanges are roo...

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