Spatialities, Temporalities and Materialities of Border Complexities

Prof. Dr. Falk Bretschneider; Prof. Dr. Sylvie Grimm-Hamen; Prof. Dr. Hedwig Wagner; PD Dr. Carolin Leutloff-Grandits; Dr. Christian Wille

doi:10.5771/9783748922308

Summary

This book offers readers well-founded insights into current border issues – from historical, cultural and media-theoretical perspectives. It shows how borders today must be understood not only as state lines, but also as complex social and digital processes. The contributions are based on interdisciplinary workshops in Europe and shed light on the complexity of border phenomena: from memory and imagination to materialities and new spatial concepts. The publication is aimed at researchers and those interested in cultural, social and media studies. The editors and authors are internationally active scholars in the field of border studies and related disciplines.
With contributions by Falk Bretschneider | Christophe Duhamelle | Marie Galliari | Julien Gautier | Sylvie Grimm-Hamen | David Kaller | Anna Lafont-Chardin | Nordine Latreche | Carolin Leutloff-Grandits | Tobias Nanz | Thomas Serrier | Dierk Spreen | Hedwig Wagner | Christian Wille

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2026
Copyright Year: 2026
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-7827-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-2230-8
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Border Studies. Cultures, Spaces, Orders
Volume: 13
Language: English
Pages: 293
Product Type: Edited Book

Preface No access Pages 1 - 6
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1. 1. Introduction No access
2. 2. Critical Border Studies and Cultural Border Studies No access
3. 3. Scales of Borders: The Region, the Nation-State, and EU/Europe No access
4. 4. Cross-Border Regions No access
5. 5. Interdisciplinary New Perspectives on ‘Border’: Current European Processes No access
6. 6. Temporalities and Changes in Border Complexities No access
7. 7. Materialities and Corporalities of Border Complexities No access
8. 8. Spatialities of Border Complexities: Borders and Border Spaces between Imagination and Reality No access
9. 9. References No access
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1. 1. Introduction No access
2. 2. Materiality and linearity No access
3. 3. Political and spatial structures of the Holy Roman Empire No access
4. 4. Temporality No access
5. 5. Conclusion No access
6. 6. References No access
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1. 1. Introduction No access
2. 2. An example of past borders: the four recognitions of the German-Polish border No access
3. 3. Remembered borders: traumatic (“bleeding”) boundaries as sites of emotions No access
4. 4. Borders as a site of mourning and suffering: the Berlin Wall No access
5. 5. Crossing borders, from emotions to memories No access
6. 6. Phantom borders beyond memories: how to rethink spaces and actors throughout time No access
7. 7. References No access
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1. 1. Introduction No access
2. 2. Bunkers along the border line No access
3. 3. Bunkers as inland control centers No access
4. 4. The bunker imaginary during the Cold War No access
5. 5. Digital control and permeable borders No access
6. 6. Conclusion No access
7. 7. References No access
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1. 1. Introduction: borders and territorial changes No access
2. 1. 2.1 Sykes-Picot’s wound No access
  2. 2.2 The spatial projection from a constitutional standpoint No access
3. 1. 3.1 International borders in Islamist and post-Islamist thought: bulldozing or not? No access
  2. 3.2 The multiple political meanings of Ummah as a Nation No access
4. 1. 4.1 Raqqa between the local, the national, and the imperial scales No access
  2. 4.2 The Syrian borderlands: integration, autonomy, and transnational networks No access
  3. 4.3 Theory of effectivity: from reality to quality No access
  4. 4.4 The post-colonial prism No access
5. 1. 5.1 The theory of the State through the lens of territory No access
  2. 5.2 The influence of geography by “the spatial turn” No access
  3. 5.3 Legal geography a tool for understanding border complexities No access
6. 6. Conclusion: epistemological challenges for a geo-legal approach to border complexities No access
7. 7. References No access
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1. 1. Society goes Space No access
2. 2. The Son of the Earth No access
3. 3. The Earth as a Spaceship No access
4. 4. Space Habitats as Forms No access
5. 5. Atopy and Sovereignty No access
6. 6. Cyborgology No access
7. 7. Boundaries and Space No access
8. 8. The Boundary of Society in Outer Space No access
9. 9. References No access
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1. 1. Satellite technology No access
2. 2. Eutelsat No access
3. 3. Extended Europe No access
4. 4. Geo-politics of satellite technology in the MENA region No access
5. 5. EU-MENA data policy relationship No access
6. 6. Celestial Data Trade Routes and their (Non-)Mappability No access
7. 7. Satellite telecommunications policy using Arab TV stations as an example No access
8. 8. Outlook No access
9. 9. References No access
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1. 1. Introduction No access
2. 1. 2.1. From Geomedia to Location-Based Mobile Media No access
  2. 2.2. Locative Media No access
  3. 2.3. The research project ‘Mobile media and location-based data in a cross-border context’ No access
3. 1. 3.1. Age groups, socio-professional category and digital technology practices No access
  2. 3.2. Students in international programs as target audience No access
  3. 3.3. Conditions for conducting interviews and profile of students No access
4. 1. 4.1. Variable uses of digital technology No access
  2. 4.2. A different practice of geolocation No access
  3. 4.3. A typology of uses of the border, at the intersection of spatial and digital practices No access
5. 5. Conclusion No access
6. 6. References No access
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1. 1. Introduction No access
2. 1. 2.1. The Container Security Initiative No access
  2. 2.2. The European counterpart: the Import Control System No access
  3. 2.3. Customs, the unit, the port: the border checkpoint No access
3. 1. 3.1. The foreignness. No access
  2. 3.2. The anticipation No access
  3. 3.3. Experience and the formalization of the collaboration effort No access
  4. 3.4. Location and proximity No access
4. 4. Conclusion No access
5. 5. References No access
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1. 1. Introduction No access
2. 1. 2.1. Classic motifs of France’s territorial and national history in Braudelian arguments No access
  2. 2.2. Fernand Braudel’s “geographical universe”: an outdated but widespread point of view No access
3. 1. 3.1. The Rhone in the division treaties of the second Ninth Century No access
  2. 3.2. The Rhone as accidental border in Carolingian Times: and indirect consequence of the myth of the “Realm of the Four Rivers” No access
  3. 3.3. Beyond the anachronic myth of the Rhone as a political border: the complexity of defining medieval territories No access
4. 1. 4.1. The anachronic use of hydrologic arguments to shape a naturally hermetic border No access
  2. 4.2. The retroactive effects of the departmentalization of France around the Rhone: an accidental naturalization of a historical construction? No access
5. 5. Conclusion No access
6. 6. References No access
7. 7. List of figures No access
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1. 1. Introduction No access
2. 1. 2.1. Limnology: the lake as a “biophysical object” No access
  2. 2.2. The geopolitics of transboundary lakes: an approach to develop No access
  3. 2.3. A crossed-referencing approach with the “limnic border” No access
3. 1. 3.1. A limnological methodology: the functioning of the lake as a determinant of the border No access
  2. 3.2. A geopolitical approach: the border as a political and juridical issue No access
  3. 3.3. A geographical approach: the border effect on lake territories No access
4. 1. 4.1. The “limnic border” of Lake Peipsi: between separation and cooperation No access
  2. 4.2. The “limnic border”: a border in its own right? No access
  3. 4.3. The “limnic border”: a concept valid at all border scales? No access
5. 5. Conclusion No access
6. 6. References No access
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1. 1. Visibility and Change of Territorial Borders in Francis Alÿs and Alighiero Boetti No access
2. 2. References No access
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1. 1. Introduction No access
2. 2. Border Symbolism and Liquidity in Das flüssige Land (2019) No access
3. 3. Raoul Schrott and The Border Illusions No access
4. 4. Haushofer’s The Wall: a life at the border No access
5. 5. Conclusion No access
6. 6. References No access
List of Authors No access Pages 291 - 292