Title Identities, borderscapes, orders : (in)security, (im)mobility and crisis in the EU and Ukraine / Benjamin Tallis

Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023

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Description 1 online resource Series Frontiers in International Relations Frontiers in International Relations Contents Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Identities, Borders and Orders in Central and Eastern Europe -- 1.1 Research Questions -- 1.1.1 Main Questions -- 1.1.2 Subsidiary Questions -- 1.2 Book Contributions and Chapter Outline -- 1.3 Chapter Outline -- References -- Chapter 2: Conceptualising the Borderscape -- 2.1 Over-generalisation and Over-specification -- 2.1.1 Conceptualising the Borderscape -- 2.2 Constituting the Borderscape: A Framework for Analysis (& Representation) -- 2.2.1 Features, Discourses and Practices 2.3 Distinguishing and Contextualising the Borderscape: An Interpretive Framework -- 2.3.1 Distinguishing a Borderscape: The Intersection of (In)Security and (Im)Mobility -- 2.3.2 Contextualising the Borderscape: Identities-Borderscapes-Orders -- 2.4 Socio-political Underpinnings of the Borderscape -- 2.4.1 Mobilising Security in Word and Deed -- 2.4.2 Power, Resistance and the Limits of the Social -- 2.5 Spatialities of the Borderscape -- 2.5.1 Space and Subjectivity -- 2.5.2 Performative Placemaking -- 2.5.3 Territory and Materiality -- 2.5.4 Space/Power/Knowledge 2.6 Temporalities and Particularities of the CEE Borderscape -- 2.6.1 A Particular Europe -- 2.6.2 Historicism at the End of History -- 2.6.3 Histories ́Ends -- 2.6.4 Memory Contra History? -- 2.7 The Conceptualised Borderscape: Analysable, Interpretable, Researchable -- References -- Chapter 3: Interpretively Researching the CEE Borderscape -- 3.1 Elements of an Interpretive Methodology -- 3.2 A Particular Research Journey -- 3.2.1 From Dissatisfied Practitioner to Critical Academic -- 3.2.2 From Critical Academic to Post-critical Researcher -- 3.3 Mapping the Borderscape 3.3.1 Mapping an Emerging Concept -- 3.3.2 Mapping Sites, Actors and Settings -- 3.3.3 Conducting Interpretive Research -- 3.3.4 Research Skills, Phases and Sensibilities -- 3.3.5 Deskwork Methods -- 3.3.6 Fieldwork Methods -- 3.4 Reflexive, Post-critical Interpretive Research -- 3.4.1 Negotiating Access, Negotiating Proximity -- 3.4.2 Sense(s) of Doubt -- References -- Chapter 4: A Diverse Archipelago: Borderscape Features -- 4.1 Firewalls: Internal Control in a Schengen State -- 4.1.1 Mobile Police Controls -- 4.1.2 Inconvenient, But Not Oppressive Bureaucracy 4.2 Shadows: Bordering Between Schengen States -- 4.2.1 Shadow Policing at Intra-Schengen Frontiers -- 4.2.2 Twilight Zones -- 4.3 A Filter (Not a Fortress) -- 4.3.1 Border Constructions -- 4.3.2 Local Border Traffic -- 4.4 The Visa ̀Curtain-Wall ́ -- 4.4.1 Consular Remote-Control -- 4.4.2 Behind the Curtain-Wall: 2nd Class Europe -- 4.5 Twisted Mirrors: EU Bordering in Ukraine -- 4.5.1 Externalised Border Mirrors -- 4.5.2 Twisted Mirrors in an Uncanny Borderland -- 4.6 A Diverse Archipelago of Border Features -- References -- Chapter 5: Euro-renovations: Borderscape Discourses Summary This book provides a pre-history of Russia's war on Ukraine and Europes relations to it, illuminating the deep roots of the EUs neighbourhood crisis as well as the migration crises it created in the last decade. To do so, the book employs a new and innovative framework that allows for a comprehensive, yet nuanced analysis of borders and a more cogent interpretation of their socio-political consequences. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship the book analytically examines the key common elements of borderscapes and links them in related arrays to allow for nuanced evaluation of both their particular and cumulative effects, as well as interpretation of their overall consequences, particularly for issues of identities and orders. The book offers a significant conceptual and theoretical advance, providing a transferable conceptualization of borderscape to guide research, analysis, and interpretation. Drawing on the authors experience in policy, practice and academia, it also makes a methodological contribution by pushing the boundaries of reflexivity in interpretive International Relations (IR) research. Analyzing three main sites in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the book challenges conventional critical wisdom on EU bordering in the Schengen zone, at its external frontiers, and in its Eastern neighborhood. In so doing, it sheds new light on the post-communist transitions as well as the contemporary politics of CEE. It also shows how European Union bordering and its relations to identities and orders created great benefits for many Europeans, but also hindered the lives of many others and became self-defeating. This book is a must-read for scholars, students, and policy-makers, interested in a better understanding of Critical Border Studies (CBS) in particular, and International Relations in general. It will also appeal to anyone interested in CEE or wishing to get a deeper understanding of Russias war and the fight for Europes future Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 15, 2023) Subject Boundaries -- Political aspects -- Europe Security, International. Boundaries Diplomatic relations International economic relations Security, International SUBJECT European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- Europe, Eastern European Union countries -- Foreign economic relations -- Europe, Central Europe, Eastern -- Foreign relations -- European Union countries Europe, Central -- Foreign relations -- European Union countries European Union countries -- Boundaries Europe, Eastern -- Boundaries Europe, Central -- Boundaries Subject Central Europe Eastern Europe Europe European Union countries Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book ISBN 9783031232497 3031232496

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