Anthony Cooper - Where Are Europes New Borders?: Critical Insights Into Contemporary European Bordering

Where are Europes New Borders?

Europes borders have always been historically ambiguous and dynamic, whereby borders shift and change character and new borders replace older ones. By focusing upon the title question where are Europes new borders, this volume looks at the present state of European bordering and questions the often taken for granted relationships between borders, borderers and the bordered. While each chapter concentrates on a different (but overlapping) border issue or perspective, they are united through their focus on the level of everyday bordering practices and experiences, as well as the meaning that borders have upon all stakeholders and the relationships between them. To talk about border meaning (including the perspective of the researchers themselves), and how that meaning continually (re)creates and is (re)created by bordering practices, is to critically question where important borders lie, why and for whom do they matter and how are they imposed, maintained and resisted. As a result the chapters engage with issues of border violence, the power of maps and symbols (carto-politics), migrant mobility, gender and the rise of the far right in Europe. Taken together this edited collection will be of interest to border scholars as well as students of European politics more generally.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies .

Anthony Cooper is a Research Fellow at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queens University Belfast, UK. His research interests coalesce around the theoretical and multidisciplinary study of borders and bordering. He is particularly interested in borders and their overlapping connection to globalisation, power, identity and everyday politics, practices and experiences.

Where are Europes New Borders?

Europes borders have always been historically ambiguous and dynamic, whereby borders shift and change character and new borders replace older ones. By focusing upon the title question where are Europes new borders, this volume looks at the present state of European bordering and questions the often taken for granted relationships between borders, borderers and the bordered. While each chapter concentrates on a different (but overlapping) border issue or perspective, they are united through their focus on the level of everyday bordering practices and experiences, as well as the meaning that borders have upon all stakeholders and the relationships between them. To talk about border meaning (including the perspective of the researchers themselves), and how that meaning continually (re)creates and is (re)created by bordering practices, is to critically question where important borders lie, why and for whom do they matter and how are they imposed, maintained and resisted. As a result the chapters engage with issues of border violence, the power of maps and symbols (carto-politics), migrant mobility, gender and the rise of the far right in Europe. Taken together this edited collection will be of interest to border scholars as well as students of European politics more generally.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies .

Anthony Cooper is a Research Fellow at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queens University Belfast, UK. His research interests coalesce around the theoretical and multidisciplinary study of borders and bordering. He is particularly interested in borders and their overlapping connection to globalisation, power, identity and everyday politics, practices and experiences.

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The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies , volume 23, issue 4 (December 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Chapter 1

Editorial: Where Are Europes New Borders? Ontology, Methodology and Framing

Anthony Cooper

Journal of Contemporary European Studies , volume 23, issue 4 (December 2015), pp. 447458

Chapter 2

Inverting the Telescope on Borders that Matter: Conversations in Caf Europa

Dorte J. Andersen, Olivier Thomas Kramsch & Marie Sandberg

Journal of Contemporary European Studies , volume 23, issue 4 (December 2015), pp. 459476

Chapter 3

Lies, Damned Lies & Maps: The EUs Cartopolitical Invention of Europe

Rodrigo Bueno Lacy & Henk van Houtum

Journal of Contemporary European Studies , volume 23, issue 4 (December 2015), pp. 477499

Chapter 4

The Never-Ending Journey? Exclusive Jurisdictions and Migrant Mobility in Europe

Alexandria J. Innes

Journal of Contemporary European Studies , volume 23, issue 4 (December 2015), pp. 500513

Chapter 5

Borders and Fear: Insecurity, Gender and the Far Right in Europe

Catarina Kinnvall

Journal of Contemporary European Studies , volume 23, issue 4 (December 2015), pp. 514529

Chapter 6

The EU and Democratic Leverage: Are There Still Lessons to be Learnt from the Spanish Transition to Democracy?

Pablo Caldern Martnez

Journal of Contemporary European Studies , volume 23, issue 4 (December 2015), pp. 530547

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Notes on Contributors

Dorte J. Andersen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Her current research focuses on regional identities and economic development in Europe. Her most recent publications can be found in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies , Journal of Borderlands Studies and European Planning Studies .