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Everyone creates one's own borders: the Dutch-German borderland as representation / Struver, Anke

Autumn 2004 Journal Article

Struver, Anke	Journal Article
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Autumn 2004.

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When examining the internal borders of the European Union in the context of their purportedly official demise following European integration, structural obstacles to cross-border interaction are normally taken into consideration while ignoring borders in people’s minds. Approaching this lacuna, the author proposes to understand borders as being constituted by imaginations and representations, and as undergoing a constant reconfiguring through social relations. This article explores the meanings of the Dutch–German border expressed in popular representations that commonly employ national stereotypes. Against the background of ‘popular geopolitics’, and applying semiotics as methodology, the author presents a theatre play on the Dutch–German border as a complex but popular representation. Analysis of the theatre play also focuses on its audiences and the reception of the play by children. This permits to address people’s readings of popular representations in order to approach the question of why borders persist in people’s lives.

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Geopolitics ; Germany ; Internal Borders ; European Union-Internal Borders

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Internal borders as naturalized political instruments / Fife, Wayne

Fife, Wayne	Journal Article
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2010.

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This article explores how internal borders can become naturalized political instruments that are heavily implicated in the extension of state control over rural populations and rural landscapes. It shows how seemingly innocuous instruments such as national parks and hunting and sport fishing regulations can be utilized to create essentialist ecological arguments for the extension of class and urban-based centers of power. Specific examples of these forms of control are illustrated with material from island Newfoundland to show how neo-liberal agendas have been implemented in the name of ecological conservation. These processes create serious disruptions in the historic political ecology of rural areas and obfuscate the anti-ecological practices of contemporary capitalism and neo-liberal forms of government.

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Internal Borders ; Newfoundland ; National Parks ; Rural Political Ecology

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