UID:
kobvindex_HPB989813866
Format:
1 online resource (427 pages)
ISBN:
3845276894
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9783845276892
Series Statement:
German and European Studies of the Willy Brandt Center at the Wroclaw University ; v. 7
Note:
Cover; Borderlands Studies at the Turn of the Tide. An Introduction; Structure of the Volume; Acknowledgments; Part I: Theoretical and methodological perspectives in borderlands studies; Boundary and borderland in traditional and new sociological paradigms; Introduction; Boundaries and borderlands -- Ambiguity of the term and three theoretical paradigms; Border and borderland as a social performance; Concluding remarks; Three perspectives in borderland research. How borderland studies could exploit its potential; Introduction; Why borderland research?; Borderlands as cases.
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Borderlands as specific regions Borderlands as quasi-experimental settings; Conclusions; Benefits of borderland sociology; Complex borders: Analytical problems and heuristics; Introduction; An interdisciplinary heuristic of multidimensional borders; Borders and orders; Concluding remarks; Bordering, borderscapes, imaginaries: From constructivist to post-structural perspectives; Introduction; The Bordering approach: getting borders back into everyday life; The Borderscapes approach: exploring the multiplicity of borders; Imaginaries: Post-structural approximations.
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Imaginaries in action: Polish-German Twin cities Empirical setting and methodology; Imaginaries as elements of everyday re-politicising: empirical evidence; Conclusion: What effects do imaginaries have on a borderscape?; Borderland as a dependent area; Introduction; Borderlands -- directions of dependence; Political parties as a form of initiative for national minorities in borderland; Conclusions; Quo vadis borderlands studies? The transformation of European borders and new research perspectives; Part II: Geopolitics and management of borders.
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Geostrategies of the European Union -- looking for a new approach in defining EUropean borders Introduction; ; The borders of EUrope -- classical paradigms; Geopolitical models and geostrategies of the European Union; The polycentric perspective and a new approach in defining the borders of EUrope; Conclusions; Politics in the borderlands. Cultural diversity and its impact on civil society and quality of governance; Introduction; Theoretical background; Characteristics of the Opole Voivodship; Borderlandness of the Opole Voivodeship; Rise of Silesian identity; Migration patterns.
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Regional community Multiculturalism, civil society and quality of governance -- defining the concepts; Quantitative analysis; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; From the sociology of the border to border management. Peripherality and social change on Poland's eastern borderlands; Introduction -- peripherality of borderlands; The results of borderlands' peripherisation; Managing borderland as a process of recovering from peripherality; Good neighborhood policy and the role of political elite -- positive and negative examples; Conclusion.
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Borderlands as a laboratory of the Europeanisation of public administration -- Selected legal issues.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Kurcz, Zbigniew. Advances in European Borderlands Studies. Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, ©2017 ISBN 9783848733637
Language:
English
URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
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