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2. Conceptualising the Borderscape

Author : Benjamin Tallis

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This chapter provides a comprehensive picture of the theoretical and conceptual advance provided by the book. Drawing on extensive engagement with multi-disciplinary literature, it introduces previous approaches to borders and bordering beyond their ‘traditional’ locations at state frontiers. The chapter highlights the scope left by this literature for further development, particularly in relation to problems of ‘over-generalisation’ and ‘over-specification’. It then presents the newly conceptualised borderscape framework that I developed for my research and on which the book’s arguments are based. The chapter distils and defines the key ‘constituents’ of the borderscape as related arrays of ‘discourses’, ‘practices’ and ‘spatio-material’ features that occur at or are produced through the intersection of (in)security and (im)mobility. The chapter shows how I complement this interpretive distinction of the borderscape from the wider social world by also connecting it to political questions of identities and orders, drawing on and updating previous work in the ‘IBO tradition’. This chapter also identifies key socio-political, spatial and temporal underpinnings of my research and explains how I draw on or synthesise their insights—as well as how my approach is distinct from them—thus situating the book in relation to various fields of academic inquiry and key debates. This exposition is integrated with a discussion of how the research was tailored to the regional particularities of Post-Cold War Central and Eastern Europe, which provides an example of how the general framework can be applied to a specific setting and also provides orientation for readers who are not (yet) regional specialists.

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Footnotes
1
Ingold’s work on landscape is not mentioned in either Borderscapes or Borderscaping—although Krasteva (2015) cites his work on ‘Lines’ (Ingold, 2007). Elena dell’Agnese (2015) discusses landscape in the context of borderscapes but, while she provides many useful insights–including with regard to the double meaning of landscape as a “Freudian joke” that is both the ‘thing’ and the thing that we use to describe the thing, she does not develop this discussion into a systematic conceptualisation of either landscapes or borderscapes, which is not her aim, nor that of other scholars who link borders and landscapes (e.g. Rumley & Minghi, 2016). There are also, of course, myriad other treatments of landscape, particularly in cultural geography (for a good summary, see Wylie, 2007) but these have not, yet, proven as heuristically useful for my research as Ingold’s work has.
 
2
Clearly each of these terms is open to multiple understandings and interpretations, but the point remains that these are some of the most common categories used to map threats to referent objects of security (e.g. C.A.S.E., 2006; Guild, 2009).
 
3
This title is borrowed from Jeremy Crampton and Stuart Elden’s excellent (2007) edited collection.
 
4
Because of the varied usage in the extant literature, as well as in general discourse, the terms (post-)communism and (post-)socialism are often used interchangeably. Although it is recognized that there are differences between these terns, they are not significant for this project.
 
5
As described by Toomas Ilves, a once Foreign Minister and, later, President, of Estonia. While the ‘Western diplomat’ was responding to a question as to why EU member states do not follow the citizenship policies that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was recommending for Estonia, such attitudes are echoed in some EU policies and relations with CEE countries as inter alia Chap. 5 shows (Kuus, 2004).
 
6
The slowest, most painful way from capitalism to capitalism, as a popular CEE joke has it.
 
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Metadata
Title
Conceptualising the Borderscape
Author
Benjamin Tallis
Copyright Year
2023
Book
Identities, Borderscapes, Orders

Print ISBN: 978-3-031-23248-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-23249-7

Copyright Year: 2023

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23249-7_2