BorderObs – Complexity-oriented Border Research

In the new BorderObs blog entry "Reflections on Complexity-oriented Border Research", Christian Wille (University of Luxembourg) discusses the relationship between complexity thinking and border research.

The background to the blog entry is the observation that borders are increasingly referred to as complex phenomena in research, but that it is rarely explained what exactly is meant by complex borders. According to Wille, progressive border research is, however, quite compatible with complexity thinking. The author approaches this promising relationship and proposes "Border Complexities" as a perspective for complexity-oriented border research.

“Border Complexities connects to the textural ontology of the border, takes an internal view of the border, and goes analytically further than asking which dimensions play a role in bordering processes or to what extent the elements involved are territorially, actor-related, or scalarly diffused.” (Christian Wille 2024)

Bibliographic information

Wille, Christian (2024): Reflections on Complexity-oriented Border Research. BorderObs (online), UniGR-Center for Border Studies. More information