The Linguistic Consequences of Boundaries, Borderlands, and Frontiers

Custred, Glynn

doi:10.1080/08865655.2011.675716

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“…15 Custred drew attention to one of the most important characteristics of boundaries, that they are drawn in a way that they are certain, and that they designate the end-point of a state's landholding. 16 While the formation of frontiers take shape according to inhabitation, the formation of boundaries is based more on politics and is state-centered. During the process of boundary formation, the understanding of the territoriality of different societies is constituted in both a physical and discursive manner in which the state plays an important role.…”

Section: Boundaries As Fixed Lines Of Separationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deconstructing the Sykes-Picot Myth: Frontiers, Boundaries, Borders and the Evolution of Ottoman Territoriality

Kurşun¹

2019

All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace

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This study aims to evaluate the emergence of the Sykes-Picot order and deconstruct its mythologization by proposing an evolutionary assessment of border understanding. This study addresses the following primary research questions: How did the interplay of domestic, regional, and international developments lay the groundwork for the formation of the Sykes-Picot territorial order? How was the administrative structure and regional divisions before the Sykes-Picot agreement and to which border categorizations did these structures correspond? Was the Sykes-Picot agreement the only international intervention that affected the borders of the region or were there other international interventions before the Sykes-Picot agreement? This study argues that the history of Middle Eastern border formation is not only an international one but also involves many aspects that have not widely been taken into consideration. In doing so, this paper adopts a critical historical perspective to analyze the evolution of Middle Eastern borders. This paper proposes a three-tracked evolutionary analytical framework (frontiers, boundaries, borders) to analyze the emergence of borders and applies it to the emergence of Ottoman territoriality. This study concludes that the Sykes-Picot agreement is only one, complementary part of a long process in the emergence of Middle Eastern geopolitics.

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Section: Boundaries As Fixed Lines Of Separationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deconstructing the Sykes-Picot Myth: Frontiers, Boundaries, Borders and the Evolution of Ottoman Territoriality

Kurşun¹

2019

All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace

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“…Few leading border theorists are cited in recent sociolinguistic output concerning borders, and linguists are similarly overlooked in the wider border studies literature. Notable exceptions are Custred (1995Custred ( , 1997Custred ( , 2011, which is among the only output to extensively draw on political geographical advances in border studies to discuss diachronic language border change and theoretical advances in contact linguistics. A more discursive approach was taken by the EU Border Identities project (2000)(2001)(2002), and among the many scholarly outputs of this consortium can be found informative qualitative ethnographic insight into language ideologies (cf.…”

Section: Borders In Sociolinguisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

2 The Border as a Site of Sociolinguistic Inquiry: Findings from Northern Catalonia

Hawkey¹

2019

Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging

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If border studies are to be more than a collection of fascinating case studies, or more than a subfield within the parent disciplines of its practitioners, they must address a set of unified thematic, conceptual and theoretical concerns and questions. This does not necessarily mean a quest for a general theory of borders … But it does imply an ability to be open to the work of others not in one's own field. (Wilson & Donnan, 2012: 14)

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“…The more general context for the analysis of this narrative is provided by interdisciplinary border studies, in which the border is dealt with as a multi-level and processual phenomenon (Paasi 1996: 15-16;Newman 2003: 13-14;Custred 2011). In this narrative, the border is first signified as the state border between Finland and Sweden.…”

Section: Borders Experience and Narrative: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Multi-Dimensional Borders in Narration

Jaago¹

2018

FEJF

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The article analyses the story of two Estonian soldiers (so-called Finnish Boys, a volunteer Estonian unit in the Finnish army), who escaped the Finnish army during the Continuation War. The reason for their desertion was the fact that the Estonians who were serving in the Finnish army were to be sent back to Estonia, where they would have had to serve in the Nazi German Army. They crossed the Finnish-Swedish border at Tornio/Haaparanta in the autumn of 1944. The story was recorded by the narrators themselves in Sweden in 1975. In the article, this story of the escape and state border crossing is dealt with from the aspect of experience and narration. Questions arise concerning how the territorial border is marked in the narrative, where the symbolic borders are revealed, and how the narrators interpret the moral aspects related to the border and its crossing.

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The Linguistic Consequences of Boundaries, Borderlands, and Frontiers

Cited by 14 publications

References 13 publications

Deconstructing the Sykes-Picot Myth: Frontiers, Boundaries, Borders and the Evolution of Ottoman Territoriality

Deconstructing the Sykes-Picot Myth: Frontiers, Boundaries, Borders and the Evolution of Ottoman Territoriality

2 The Border as a Site of Sociolinguistic Inquiry: Findings from Northern Catalonia

Multi-Dimensional Borders in Narration

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