1st Edition

Where are Europe’s New Borders? Critical Insights into Contemporary European Bordering

Edited By Anthony Cooper Copyright 2016
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

Europe’s 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 Europe’s 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... Read more

1. Where Are Europe’s New Borders? Ontology, Methodology and Framing
Anthony Cooper

2. Inverting the Telescope on Borders that Matter: Conversations in Café Europa
Dorte J. Andersen, Olivier Thomas Kramsch and Marie Sandberg

3. Lies, Damned Lies & Maps: The EU’s Cartopolitical Invention of Europe
Rodrigo Bueno Lacy and Henk van Houtum

4. The Never-Ending Journey? Exclusive Jurisdictions and Migrant Mobility in Europe
Alexandria J. Innes

5. Borders and Fear: Insecurity, Gender and the Far Right in Europe
Catarina Kinnvall

6. The EU and Democratic Leverage: Are There Still Lessons to be Learnt from the Spanish Transition to Democracy?
Pablo Calderón Martínez

Biography

Anthony Cooper is a research fellow at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queens University Belfast. 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.