Henk van Houtum - B/ordering Space

Series Editor: Doris Wastl-Walter

In recent years, borders have taken on an immense significance. Throughout the world they have shifted, been constructed and dismantled, and become physical barriers between socio-political ideologies. They may separate societies with very different cultures, histories, national identities or economic power, or divide people of the same ethnic or cultural identity.

As manifestations of some of the worlds key political, economic, societal and cultural issues, borders and border regions have received much academic attention over the past decade. This valuable series publishes high quality research monographs and edited comparative volumes that deal with all aspects of border regions, both empirically and theoretically. It will appeal to scholars interested in border regions and geopolitical issues across the whole range of social sciences.

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
B/ordering space. - (Border regions series)
1. Boundaries 2. Geographical perception 3. Human
territoriality 4. Globalization - Social aspects
I. Houtum, Henk van II. Kramsch, Olivier III. Zierhofer,
Wolfgang
320.1'2

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ISBN: 978-0-7546-3763-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-3519-5608-6 (ebk)

B/ordering Space
Henk van Houtum, Olivier Kramsch and Wolfgang Zierhofer

PART I B/ORDERING PRACTICES IN A BORDERLESS WORLD

Mapping the Backgrounds, Contexts and Contents
Anssi Paasi

Globalization, Regionalism, and the Postmetropolitan Transition
Edward W. Soja

From a Space-centred Towards an Action-centred Human Geography
Benno Werlen

Transnational Migrants as Strategic Actors
David Ley

PART II STRATEGIC CONSTRUCTIONS: CLAIMING AND FIXING PLACES

Stories, Institutions and Boundaries
Amoud Lagendijk

The Euroregio of Salzburg as a Bordered Space
Peter Weichhart

Canadian Single Industry Towns, Staples, and Harold Innis
Trevor Barnes

Derek Gregory

PART III SITUATING AND EXTENDING SPACES OF ORIENTATION

Or Moments of Insight, Spaces of Recognition: Situated Practice, Science, and the Navigation of Urban Everyday Life
Allan Pred

Huib Ernste

Identities of Disciplinary Space and its Borders Between the Anthropo- and Political Geography of Germany and the United States

PART IV RE-IMAGINING BOUNDED ROUTES AND DISCOURSES

Reflections from the Portuguese-Spanish Borderlands
James D. Sidaway

Spaces of Absence along the Dutch-German Border
Anke Strver

A Discourse on National Identity in Switzerland
Wolfgang Zierhofer

Keith Woodward
John Paul Jones

Trevor Barnes is Professor in the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Huib Ernste is Professor and Head of the Department of Human Geography, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Derek Gregory is Professor in the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Henk van Houtum is Associate Professor and Research Director in the Department of Human Geography, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

John Paul Jones III is Professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

Olivier Kramsch is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Arnoud Lagendijk is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spatial Planning, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

David Ley is Professor in the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Wolfgang Natter is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.

Anssi Paasi is Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland.

Allan Pred is Professor in the Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley, USA.

James D. Sidaway is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Edward W. Soja is Professor in the Department of Urban Planning, School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.

Anke Striiver is a PhD student in the Department of Human Geography, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Peter Weichhart is Professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Science at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Benno Werlen is Professor in the Geographical Institute, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany.

Keith Woodward is a PhD student in the Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

Wolfgang Zierhofer is Senior Research Fellow in the Programm Mensch Gesellschaft Umwelt at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

This book is the result of an intensive dialogue between the editors and scholars who in the period 1999-2002 visited the Department of Human Geography, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. Our colleagues arrived under the auspices of the departments Alexander von Humboldt lecture series, founded by Huib Ernste in 1999 as a means to strengthen the linkages between Nijmegen geography and the broader Anglo-American and German geographical communities. In this manner, and through a combined effort of many persons located both within the department as well as in the wider Nijmegen School of Management, many inspiring speakers came to lecture and reside with us in Nijmegen. We would like to extend our gratitude to all those who contributed to making these visits a success. In addition to these scholars, we would like to thank all those who participated in the lively and inspiring discussions taking place within the framework of the lecture series, as well as in subsequent seminars and meetings. In editing this volume, we are particularly indebted to Freerk Boedeltje for taking on the challenging task of preparing the book for camera-ready submission. Last but not least, we would like to say a heartfelt