Descripción del proyecto
Fronteras de la Guerra Fría en la región de los Alpes-Adriático
El proyecto OPEN BORDERS, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende replantear la historia de la Europa de la Guerra Fría al examinar el desarrollo de la cooperación transfronteriza en la región de los Alpes-Adriático desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta la actualidad. El proyecto —que se centrará en una región histórica que hoy comparten Austria, Croacia, Eslovenia e Italia—, desafiará la visión dicotómica de dos Europas separadas, «Oriental» y «Occidental», desde una nueva perspectiva fronteriza. Además, al reconsiderar el pasado europeo desde un punto de vista transnacional, el proyecto demostrará la interacción entre la política descendente y las iniciativas ascendentes, mediante una plataforma para los debates contemporáneos sobre la soberanía, la territorialidad y la pertenencia.
Objetivo
"This project aims to rethink the history of Cold War Europe by examining the development of transnational cross-border cooperation from the end of World War II to the present. Overcoming traditional narratives of a clear-cut European separation symbolised by the Berlin Wall, a decentralised analysis of recent European history will show us that the question of a divided continent should be reframed. The final objective is to challenge a dichotomous vision of two separate Europes, “East” and “West”, from a new, border perspective. To this end, a highly qualified team of senior and junior scholars under my guidance will focus on the Alps-Adriatic region, a historical area that is now shared by Austria, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. This case involves a relatively narrow geographical area but an unusually broad typological range of subjects. During the Cold War it was divided among socialist but non-aligned Yugoslavia, capitalist but neutral Austria, and NATO and EEC member Italy. Its development from the ""southern end"" of the Iron Curtain in 1946 to the ""most open border"" during the Cold War and a precursor to present-day Schengen Europe, represents a paradigmatic case to study an alternative attitude towards borders, frontiers and boundaries. Drawing on Cold War and borderland studies, social history and the history of European integration, which up till now have not found common ground, our innovative conceptual elaboration will demonstrate the interplay between top-down politics and bottom-up initiatives, thus offering a new, and more nuanced history of Cold War Europe from the border perspective. Reconsidering the European past from this transnational angle, both in terms of geographic and methodological perspectives, will allow us to rediscover the human face of European integration and will offer us a new platform for contemporary discussions on sovereignty, territoriality and belonging and on the future role of borders in Europe and in the world."
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedInstitución de acogida
6000 Koper
Eslovenia