Seeing Like a Complex Border: On the Methodology of Complexity-Oriented Border Research
Dominik Gerst
Abstract:Complexity has become an important point of reference in contemporary border research. Drawing on selected approaches to borders, this chapter elaborates the central methodological cornerstones and challenges of complexity-oriented border research. In addition to sketching a research attitude that can be described as seeing like a complex border, it becomes apparent that different understandings of complexity are circulating. In order to increase the degree of reflection of border research, the relationship of… Show more
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