Objective
In order to gauge its significance, conceptual change in the study of borders must be seen in relation to fundamental social, economic and geopolitical transformations that have taken place in the past decades. In addition, major paradigmatic shifts in scientific debate, and in the social sciences in particular, must also be considered. Recognising the close interrelationships between social change and paradigm shifts, the EUBORDERSCAPES project will analyse the evolving concept of borders in terms of a mutually linked emergence of “post-national”, “post-colonial”, “post-modernist” and “post-Communist” strands of inquiry. State borders are the frame of reference, rather than ethnographic/anthropological boundaries. However, this approach emphasises the social significance and subjectivities of state borders while critically interrogating “objective” categories of state territoriality and international relations. The research proposed here will, furthermore, not only be focused at the more general, at times highly abstract, level of conceptual change. This approach will also allow us to compare and contrast how different and often contested conceptualisations of state borders (in terms of their political, social, cultural and symbolic significance) resonate in concrete contexts at the level of everyday life.
Field of science
- /social sciences
Call for proposal
FP7-SSH-2011-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
70211 Kuopio
Finland
Participants (19)
6525 EZ Nijmegen
06800 Ankara
119017 Moskva
08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles
9019 Tromso
BT7 1NN Belfast
84105 Beer Sheva
901 87 Umea
24129 Bergamo
80309 Gdansk
61077 Kharkiv
1000 Sofia
15537 Erkner
4366 Esch Sur Alzette
75794 Paris
1097 Budapest
191040 St Petersburg
00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
E16 2RD London
