Bordertextures: A Complexity Approach to Cultural Border Studies

The working group Bordertextures launched the book project “Bordertextures: A Complexity Approach to Cultural Border Studies” in 2019. In this book, about 20 border scholars discuss the bordertextures approach and attempt to refine the concept. The discussion aims at conceptual questions, methodological considerations as well as empirical applications. At the same time the book project aims to contribute to a stronger theoretical and conceptual founding of border research in cultural studies.

Borders are much more than territorial markers on a map. In recent years, borders have gained more and more scholarly attention, and the field of border studies has become increasingly diversified when it comes to different trends and analytical approaches. This edited collection reflects these latest developments and proposes an understanding of borders as effects and generators of complex formations. The contributors discuss such bordertextures from various theoretical and conceptual viewpoints, supported by empirical examples. By introducing the concept of bordertextures and the approach of bordertexturing, this edited collection opens up new and fine-tuned perspectives on borders and borderlands.

The English language book will be published by transcript-Verlag (ISBN 978-3-8394-3895-4) and edited by Christian Wille (University of Luxembourg), Astrid M. Fellner and Eva Nossem (both from Saarland University). To the publisher's website

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