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New UniGR-CBS Policy Paper – Resilience in European Cross-Border Relations
The Covid pandemic has shown after spring 2020 how fragile cross-border relations and cooperation can be. Poor cross-border communications and inadequate foresight as to their effects exacerbated the problems – old and new – caused by re-erecting long disused checkpoints and closing borders. In the present time of polycrisis it is more than ever important…
Workshop – Cross-border Inequalities. An Exploration in the Greater Region
When inequalities continue to be studied and debated primarily at the national level, it is crucial to further consider their cross-border implications and dimensions. Inequalities in terms of income, access to public infrastructure and services, education, and employment opportunities within the Greater Region illustrate this reality. Participants in the workshop…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Komplexitätsdenken und Grenzforschung
Despite the increased discourse on the complexity of borders, there are hardly any references in the academic debate as to what exactly complex borders mean or complexity-oriented border research.
This paper starts here and discusses the promising relationship between complexity thinking and border research. To this end, it explains what is currently…
New publication – Border Renaissance
The UniGR-CBS members Astrid M. Fellner, Eva Nossem and Christian Wille have published an interdisciplinary "special section" in the latest issue of Borders in Globalization Review. The Canadian peer review journal sees itself as a forum for academic and artistic explorations of borders in the arts, cultural studies and social sciences.
This "special section…
Call for Papers – The Return of Imperial Borders? Practices, Representations, Contestations
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies (UniGR-CBS) and the Institut franco-allemand de sciences historiques et sociales (IFRA-SHS) are organizing a multilingual study day at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (4-6/11/2024). The focus will be on the current question of the return of imperial borders, for which historical and geographical perspectives will be discussed and intersected across…
New Book – Border Complexities and Logics of Dis/Order
The interdisciplinary open access anthology, to which five UniGR-CBS members contributed, deals with the still recent trend of considering and investigating borders as complex phenomena. Although this trend began in the 2010s, the relationship between complexity and borders has not yet been explicitly discussed. Instead, the current debate is dominated by a diffuse…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Borderland Dynamics Between North Park and Mid-City
The central areas of San Diego are undergoing a gradual redevelopment by the combined efforts of the municipality and the private sector, transforming low-income neighborhoods into areas favored by affluent populations. This is particularly the case in the neighborhood of North Park, which has been redeveloped in the last decades and has recently begun to expand…
UniGR-CBS Border Studies Seminar : Covid-19 - A Pandemic and its Implications for Borders
The new millennium is regularly marked by new crises, whether it be the financial crisis, the so-called "refugee crisis," the energy crisis, the crisis in Ukraine, the re-emergence of conflict in the Middle East, or, with a new virulence, the climate crisis. We are going through a period of polycrisis during which crises not only succeed one another but also intersect and influence each other…