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| - | The term borderland addresses the regions that surround international [[borders]]. These are places where power relations become particularly evident (Sparke, M., 2011, p 53) and where different cultures either mix or clash, creating a very (site-)specific political, spatial, cultural, economical and social situation. Which, refering to Soja, might be called a '[[Third space]]'.
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| - | Most geographical studies on borderlands aim to create a discription of what could be called the everyday 'border-life': the daily practices, economic activities and cultural connections of people that live in borderlands, and that cross the borders of nations (see Sparke, M., idem).
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| - | == Studying the Borderlands ==
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| - | ''"...borderlands provide usefully prismatic lenses on to the changing geography of power in the context of globalization."''(Sparke, M., 2011, p 53)
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| - | The concept of borderlands is recently under the growing attention of (spatial) scientists and politicians, encouraged by the increasing governmental interest in cross-border regional planning. Within the range of researches and articles on borderlands, Sparke distinguishes two different interpretations of the concept-metaphor of borderlands:
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| - | - Borderlands as a refocusing concept, studying cross-border regional development.
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| - | - Borderlands as a "meaning remaking metaphor to disrupt normalizing notions of nation and the nation-state" (Sparke, M., idem).
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| - | == Further reading ==
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| - | * Albert, M., Jacobson, D. & Lapid, Y. (Eds.), (2001), ''Identities, borders, orders. Rethinking International Relations Theory.'' University of Minnesota
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| - | * Anzaldúa, G., (1987) The Homeland, Aztlán. ''Borderlands/La Frontiera: the new mestiza''.
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| - | * Sparke, M., (2011) Borderlands, in: ''The Dictionary of Human Geography'', p 53
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| | == Contributors == | | == Contributors == |
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| - | * Page created by Isis Boot --[[User:IsisBoot|IsisBoot]] 17:11, 8 October 2012 (CEST) | + | * Page created by Kasper van de Langenberg 31/12/12 |
