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.
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Call for proposal
FP7-SSH-2011-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
70211 KUOPIO
Finland
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Participants (19)
6525 XZ Nijmegen
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06800 Ankara
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119017 MOSKVA
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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9019 Tromso
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BT7 1NN Belfast
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84105 Beer Sheva
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901 87 Umea
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24129 Bergamo
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80-309 GDANSK
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61077 Kharkiv
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1000 SOFIA
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15537 Erkner
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4366 Esch Sur Alzette
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75794 Paris
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1097 Budapest
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191040 ST PETERSBURG
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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E16 2RD London
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