Identity Formation in Gibraltar: Geopolitical, Historical and Cultural Factors

Gold, Peter

doi:10.1080/14650040903486975

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“…Fast-forward to 1967 when repeated failed negotiations between Francoist Spain and the UK over Gibraltar's status and increasing restrictions on crossborder mobility by General Franco culminated in a referendum. Britain asked Gibraltarians to choose between continuing under British sovereignty but with local, self-governing institutions, and falling under Spanish sovereignty but with a special territorial status and continued British citizenship for the inhabitants (Gold 2010;Lambert 2005). The result was almost unanimously in favour of pertaining a link with Britain.…”

Section: Setting the Scene: The 1969 Border Closurementioning

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Bottom-up Geopolitics and Everyday Brexits at the Gibraltar-Spain Border

Bono

Stoffelen

2020

Geopolitics

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Brexit has opened doors for renewed attention to contested, multi-scalar geopolitical forces grounded in everyday life in borderlands. In this paper, we aim to unravel 'everyday Brexits' in the Gibraltar-La Línea (Spain) borderlands. By studying the 2019 commemoration of the historic 1969 border closure, we concentrate on how local borderwork by residents is mobilised for bottom-up geopolitics in the context of Brexit negotiations. We use a conceptual approach that focuses on multiple layerings of the border and the selectivity of stakeholders to select among these layers to pursue their interests. Based on on-site observations, in-depth interviews, and informal conversations with residents and key actors of La Línea and Gibraltar, we argue that Brexit has increased the tension of already loaded core-periphery relations in Spain. Brexit does not represent a sudden disruption. Rather, we show how Brexit allowed the bottom-up geopolitical mobilisation of latent, strongly historically embedded and continuous cross-borders sentiments of residents. This mobilisation could potentially challenge local cross-border power relations. In the final analysis, we conclude that the bottom-up geopolitics of 'ordinary' residents through everyday bordering processes is central to geopolitics research, including with regard to Brexit and in particular for non-British geographies affected by Brexit.

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Section: Setting the Scene: The 1969 Border Closurementioning

confidence: 99%

Bottom-up Geopolitics and Everyday Brexits at the Gibraltar-Spain Border

Bono

Stoffelen

2020

Geopolitics

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“…According to the Spanish Foreign Ministry, British occupation of the space is illegal and it has therefore always remained 'under Spanish sovereignty' (Ministerio Exteriors, n.d.). The airport is the primary piece of infrastructure 'occupying' the isthmus and is both symbolic of the dispute, whilst also serving as an underlying agitator (Gold, 2010). Under the Spanish Socialist Government in 2006, work to extend the airport through a joint terminal linking Gibraltar and the Campo de Gibraltar was agreed and whilst Gibraltar have a terminal that could be fully operational (Figure 2), Spain have yet to begin construction.…”

Section: Tensions In the Airmentioning

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Rock, water, air and fire: Foregrounding the elements in the Gibraltar-Spain dispute

Squire

2015

Environ Plan D

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Through the case study of the contested British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, this paper contributes to discussions on 'territorial volumes' by exploring the role of the 'elemental' in the protracted sovereignty dispute between Spain and Gibraltar. Drawing on scholarship by Elden, Adey, McCormack and others in political and cultural geography, the paper highlights the value of foregrounding the elements of rock, water, air and fire (in the form of the sun) in attempts to understand the tensions between Gibraltar and Spain whilst also demonstrating the significant intersections between the elemental and the human body. Whilst avoiding the snares of environmental determinism, the paper makes the case for an elemental ontology that functions through and with the proclivities and molecular specificities of the elements in order to better understand the construct of the territorial volume, the relationship between elemental and bodily volumes, and the site specific geopolitical realities, fractures and possibilities that are laid bare as the elements are unearthed.

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“…The symbolic strength of this reality is often shadowed by the well‐vociferated old geopolitical dispute between Spain and the UK regarding the sovereignty of the rock (see e.g. Oda‐Ángel ; Sepúlveda‐Muñoz ; Lambert ; Gold , ). Tariq's anniversary encourages us to look at this European British Overseas Territory through a different discursive lens.…”

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Europe without an Endpoint. Period

Ferrer-Gallardo¹,

Houtum

2013

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This contribution focuses on the borderscape of a flat area situated at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, at the edge of the European Continent, which is illustratively and interestingly named Europa Point. We will argue that, as an evoking geographical belvedere of cultural and continental interrelationships, Europa Point directs attention to the inherent sociospatial ambiguities of EUrope. Embodying a crucial topo within the European sociospatial b/ordering process, this borderscape stimulates to observe Europe's limits through a non-binary lens. The text aims at providing an unfrozen alternative visualisation of the symbolic and territorial margins of the EU. Echoing De Rougemont's conceptualisation of Europe's existence through its search for the infinite, it depicts Europa Point as a springboard and platform to the perpetual commencement of the European adventure.

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Identity Formation in Gibraltar: Geopolitical, Historical and Cultural Factors

Cited by 13 publications

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Bottom-up Geopolitics and Everyday Brexits at the Gibraltar-Spain Border

Bottom-up Geopolitics and Everyday Brexits at the Gibraltar-Spain Border

Rock, water, air and fire: Foregrounding the elements in the Gibraltar-Spain dispute

Europe without an Endpoint. Period

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