Borders in post-socialist Europe
Subtitle: territory, scale, society
By: by Tassilo Herrschel
Series: Border regions series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780754643845; 9781409434498
Subjects: Boundaries; Post-communism
Description: Using empirical case studies from post-socialist European countries, this book combines the main strands of the 'borders' debates in terms of their meanings at these different scales, and concerning their varying qualities and nature. By considering both fixed 'conventional' borders and imagined, cultural ones, and then investigating these at different spatial scales, the book considers whether there are links between scale and perceived immediacy and closeness, and thus the impact of borders on people's perception and action.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why borders in Eastern Europe?; title: Eastern Europe, "transition", and the re-making of space spatiality and borderness; title: Multi-level bordering : borders, scale and the "new regionalism"; title: Virtual territoriality and multi-level bordering in the "virtual" Baltic Sea region; title: Russia and shifting borders within and around the BSR : making and bridging new divisions. Part 1: Kaliningrad and its bordering between Russia and the European Union; title: Russia and shifting borders within and around the bsr : making and bridging new divisions. Part 2: Localised multi-level bordering between Estonia and Russia; title: Changing borderness towards a "borderless" Europe : Euroregions and the EU-isation of Central European borders; title: Conclusions; title: towards composite multi-level borderness in Europe.