Lecture – Transitions and people’s resilience in European borderlands

Borderlands are specific environments where people and communities have historically had to find creative ways of coping within state structures and their transitions. Considering recent trends in Europe to move away from open borders scenarios towards border securitization and unsolved political conflicts, questions concerning how borderlands cope with transitions become highly pertinent. This lecture problematizes transitions in terms of the concept of people’s resilience and from the perspective of people living in three European borderlands.
 

25 January 2023, 4.00-5.30pm
Online lecture (Zoom)
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Dorte Jagetic Andersen is senior researcher in the Centre for Border Region Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Her main research interest concerns identity-formation in areas influenced by the presence of geopolitically drawn borders, and she has published extensively and made major theoretical contributions within the field of border studies.

The lecture is part of the lecture series “Border Realities: Transformation of the border and new conceptual challenges”. The series is organised by the UniGR-Center for Border Studies (University of Luxembourg) and the Centre for Regional and Borderlands Studies at the Institute of Sociology (University of Wrocław).

Contact

Denise Rodrigues Marafona (Université du Luxembourg)
denise.rodriguesmarafona@uni.lu

Sylwia Zawadzka (Université de Wrocław)
sylwia.zawadzka@uwr.edu.pl