Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands

1. Introduction: European Borderlands as Arenas, Platforms and Mirrors of Transformation

James W. Scott and Thomas M. Wilson

Section One: Borderlands of (In)security and Control

2. ‘Crisis’ in the Channel? Practices of Securitization and Epistemic Borderwork in the British/European Borderlands

Thom Tyerman and Nick Vaughan-Williams

3. Borderland Geopolitics: The Unsettledness of European Borders

Jaume Castan Pinos and Steen Bo Frandsen

4. Borderlands into Bloodlands, The Ukrainian-Russian Border and the End of the “Post-Soviet”

Tatiana Zhurzhenko

5. People as Weapons. Securitization, Moral Arguments and Nature on the EU-Belarus Border

Agnieszka Halemba

6. European Border Bystanders: More than Human and more than European Border Stories

Sarah Green

7. The Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis on Cross-Border Cooperation in Europe

Elżbieta Opiłowska and Florian Weber

Section Two: Creativity, Cooperation and Resilience

8. The Finnish-Swedish Borderland as a Resilient Space of Cross-Border Relations

Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola

9. The Greater Region, or the Paradox of Cross-border Integration

Christophe Sohn

10. The Galicia-Northern Portugal Euroregion as a Cooperative Borderland

Juan-M. Trillo-Santamaría, Valerià Paül and Roberto Vila-Lage

11. Border Twin Cities in Europe: An Outline of the Phenomenon and Its Study

Ekaterina Mikhailova

12. Collaborative Borderscaping; Using the Border as a Resource for Cross-Border Spatial Design

Vincent Pijnenburg and Henk van Houtum

13. Bordering and Cross-Bordering at the Italy-France Frontier

Raffaella Coletti

Section Three: Mashing and Clashing Sovereignties and Identities

14. Mashing and Clashing Sovereignties: How Brexit Was Conceived in the Irish Borderlands

Katy Hayward and Milena Komarova

15. Banal and Instrumental Brexitism in the Northern Ireland Borderlands

Thomas M. Wilson

16. Imbricated Borderlands in the European Governance of Refugeehood

Olga Demetriou

17. Populism and Borderlands: The Use of Spatial Objects in the Name of the People

Christian Lamour

18. From “Borderless World” to “Borders are Everywhere”. The Boundary Work of Refugees and Volunteers in Denmark after the “Return Turn”

Marie Sandberg

19. The Danish-German Borderland

Martin Klatt

Section Four: European Borderlands in (Post)Globalization

20. Hungary as a Borderland Nation

Péter Balogh

21. Borderlands Geo(ethno)politics at the EU’s External Frontiers: The Case of Transcarpathia

James W. Scott

22. Turkey as a European Borderland: Syrian Displacement, Disaster and Security

Şule Can

23. Territorial Security Walls, Sovereignty, and the Reconstruction of the Nation-State

Ramazan Aras and Ibrahim Emre Yanik

24. Whose Border, Which Crisis? Illiberalism and the (Re)nationalization of Poland’s Eastern Frontier, 2015-2022

Karolina Follis

25. Transboundary Nature Protection and National Parks in European Borderlands

Marek Więckowski

26. The Shifting Significance of the Finnish-Russian Borderland

Jussi P. Laine 

Biography

James W. Scott is Professor of Regional and Border Studies at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.

Thomas M. Wilson is Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA.