BORDER STUDIES: Recent Empirical and Conceptual Approaches

BORDER STUDIES: Recent Empirical and Conceptual Approaches

BORDERS IN PERSPECTIVE UniGR-CBS Thematic Issue Vol. 6/2021 IDENTITIES AND METHODOLOGIES OF BORDER STUDIES: Recent Empirical and Conceptual Approaches UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG & UNIVERSITY DUISBURG-ESSEN Christian Wille, Dominik Gerst, Hannes Krämer (Eds.) Christan Wille Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences Department of Geography and Spatial Planning University of Luxemburg Dominik Gerst Faculty of Humanities Institute for Communication Studies University Duisburg-Essen Hannes Krämer Faculty of Humanities Institute for Communication Studies University Duisburg-Essen UniGR-Center for Border Studies Luxembourg, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-e930-87fc 2 UniGR-Center for Border Studies CENTRE EUROPEEN D’ETUDES SUR LES FRONTIERES EUROPÄISCHES ZENTRUM FÜR GRENZRAUMFORSCHUNG EN The UniGR-CBS is a thematic cross-border network of approximately 80 researchers within the university grouping University of the Greater Region (UniGR) conducting research on borders, their meanings and chal- lenges. Due to its geographical position in the “heart of Europe”, its expertise and disciplinary diversity, the UniGR-CBS has the best prerequisites for becoming a European network of excellence. For the creation of a “European Center for Competence and Knowledge in Border Studies”, the Interreg VA Greater Region pro- gram provides the UniGR-CBS network with approximately EUR 2.6 million ERDF funding between 2018 and 2022. Within this project, the UniGR-CBS aims at developing harmonized research tools, embedding Border Studies in teaching, promoting the dialogue on cross-border challenges between academia and institutional actors and supporting the spatial development strategy of the Greater Region. FR L’UniGR-CBS un réseau transfrontalier et thématique qui réunit environ 80 chercheuses et chercheurs des universités membres de l’Université de la Grande Région (UniGR) spécialistes des études sur les fron- tières, leurs significations et enjeux. Grâce à sa position géographique au « cœur de l’Europe », à sa capacité d’expertise et à la diversité des disciplines participantes, l’UniGR-CBS revêt tous les atouts d’un réseau d’ex- cellence européen. L’UniGR-CBS bénéficie d’un financement d’environ 2,6 M € FEDER dans le cadre du pro- gramme INTERREG VA Grande Région de 2018-2022 pour mettre en place le Centre européen de ressources et de compétences en études sur les frontières. Via ce projet transfrontalier, le réseau scientifique UniGR- CBS créera des outils de recherche harmonisés. Il œuvre en outre à l’ancrage des Border Studies dans l’en- seignement, développe le dialogue entre le monde scientifique et les acteurs institutionnels autour d’enjeux transfrontaliers et apporte son expertise à la stratégie de développement territorial de la Grande Région. DE Das UniGR-CBS ist ein grenzüberschreitendes thematisches Netzwerk von rund 80 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern der Mitgliedsuniversitäten des Verbunds Universität der Großregion (UniGR), die über Grenzen und ihre Bedeutungen sowie Grenzraumfragen forschen. Dank seiner geographischen Lage „im Herzen Europas“, hoher Fachkompetenz und disziplinärer Vielfalt verfügt das UniGR-CBS über alle Voraus- setzungen für ein europäisches Exzellenz-Netzwerk. Für den Aufbau des Europäischen Kompetenz- und Wissenszentrums für Grenzraumforschung wird das Netzwerk UniGR-CBS von 2018-2022 mit knapp 2,6 Mio. Euro EFRE-Mitteln im Rahmen des INTERREG VA Großregion Programms gefördert. Im Laufe des Pro- jekts stellt das UniGR-Netzwerk abgestimmte Forschungswerkzeuge bereit, verankert die Border Studies in der Lehre, entwickelt den Dialog zu grenzüberschreitenden Themen zwischen wissenschaftlichen und insti- tutionellen Akteuren und trägt mit seiner Expertise zur Raumentwicklungsstrategie der Großregion bei. 3 Identities and Methodologies of Border Studies: Recent Empirical and Concep- tual Approaches Abstract EN In recent decades, Border Studies have gained importance and have seen a noticeable increase in de- velopment. This manifests itself in an increased institutionalization, a differentiation of the areas of re- search interest and a conceptual reorientation that is interested in examining processes. So far, however, little attention has been paid to questions about (inter)disciplinary self-perception and methodological foun- dations of Border Studies and the associated consequences for research activities. This thematic issue addresses these desiderata and brings together articles that deal with their (inter)disciplinary foundations as well as method(olog)ical and practical research questions. The authors also provide sound insights into a disparate field of work, disclose practical research strategies, and present methodologically sophisticated systematizations. Border Studies, boundaries, methodologies, ethnographic methods, practice, migration DE Die Border Studies haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten an Bedeutung gewonnen und einen spürbaren Ent- wicklungsschub erfahren. Dieser äußert sich in einer stärkeren Institutionalisierung, einer Ausdifferenzie- rung der Erkenntnisinteressen und einer an Prozessen interessierten konzeptionellen Neuorientierung. We- nig Aufmerksamkeit erhielten jedoch bisher Fragen nach den (inter-)disziplinären Selbstverständnissen und methodologischen Grundlagen der Border Studies und den damit verbundenen Konsequenzen für das For- schungshandeln. Das Themenheft adressiert diese Desiderata und versammelt Artikel, die sich mit ihren (inter-)disziplinären Grundlagen sowie method(olog)ischen und forschungspraktischen Fragen auseinan- dersetzen. Die Autor*innen geben darüber hinaus fundierte Einblicke in ein disparates Arbeitsfeld, legen forschungspraktische Strategien offen und stellen methodologisch versierte Systematisierungen vor. Identitäten und Methodologien der Grenzforschung. Aktuelle empirische und konzeptionelle Ansätze FR Les Border Studies ont gagné en importance au cours des dernières décennies et ont connu une poussée de développement notable. Cela se traduit par une institutionnalisation plus forte, une différenciation des intérêts de recherche et une réorientation conceptuelle axée sur des processus. Cependant, peu d'attention a été accordée jusqu'à présent aux questions concernant l'auto-compréhension (inter)disciplinaire, les fon- dements méthodologiques des Border Studies et les conséquences qui en découlent pour la recherche. Ce cahier thématique aborde ces desiderata et réunit des articles qui traitent de leurs fondements (inter)disci- plinaires ainsi que de questions méthodologiques et pratiques. En outre, les auteurs donnent des rensei- gnements fondés sur un domaine de travail disparate, révèlent des stratégies de recherche et présentent des systématisations sur le plan méthodologique. Identités et méthodologies des études des frontières. Approches actuelles empiriques et conceptuelles 4 Contents Foreword Jussi P. Laine 7 Border Studies: A Long-Overdue Self-Examination Christian Wille, Dominik Gerst, Hannes Krämer 11 The Multiplication of Border Methodology Dominik Gerst, Hannes Krämer 17 Border or Bordering Practice? Changing Perspectives on Borders and Challenges of Praxeological Approaches Ulla Connor 27 State Borders and Archaeological Ethnography: (Checkpoint) Practice, Materiality and Discourse Annett Bochmann 39 Cross-border Collaborations as “Contact Zones”: Methodological Reflections on Ethnographic Studies in Border Regions Sarah Kleinmann, Arnika Peselmann 55 Of Borderlands and Peripheries: The Promise of Cooperation Ulrike Kaden 69 Borders, Migration, Struggles: A Heuristic for Analysis of Border Politics Simon Sperling, David Niebauer, Laura Holderied 85 The Seven Follies of Lampedusa Chiara Dorbolò 99 The Approach of Contemporary History to Border Studies in Europe Birte Wassenberg 113 5 6 Foreword Jussi P. Laine President of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) Borders remain vitally important features of the more timely and relevant. Instead of taking the world we live in. The recent political and societal confrontations of the current era as a challenge, developments in Europe, but also more globally, this special issue puts them forth as a long-over- have affirmed that borders have not disappeared due opportunity for a self-examination within the anywhere under the pressures of globalization field of Border Studies. The papers of the issue, and the ever more networked and interconnected all stemming from research originally presented processes that fuel it. Rather, borders have come at the Association for Borderlands Studies 2nd to acquire a central position in the social and po- World Conference in 2018, underline the im- litical transformation of the world and our daily portance of the inherent plurality of Border Stud- lives. The various border-transcending dynamics ies by assessing the various theoretical, method- of globalization as well as regional integration ological, and empirical foundations of the field in have deeply changed the power of borders, modi- its current form and it in its own right. The palpa- fying the dialectical relation between their fixed ble fact that the institutionalization of the field is institutional nature and constantly changing, fluid dependent on the very same factors that also processes of bordering within and between soci- challenge its very existence is what brings the pa- eties. However, despite the mounting attention pers of this issue together. In all, they draw our paid to borders and the various practices and pro- attention to the applicability and operationality

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