At a time when Europe is facing a migration crisis, the Schengen Border Art site provides an insight into the vision and work of many artists around the issue of European borders, the way they are experienced by migrants and newcomers and the violence, injustice or vulnerability of their situation. These different works help to raise awareness among European citizens of the reality and scale of the problem.
Arts de dire et Formes de contrôle en situations de plurilinguisme (Ways of saying it and Forms of control in plurilinguistic situations) is the title of a Grande Leçon document produced by a number of lecturers from the Greater region, from the fields of sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics and linguistics. The authors propose to address the issue of plurilingualism in our society through discussions, presentations and illustrations of situations at a cross-border seminar organised by the University of the Greater Region. The "Lesson" proposes content relating to switching between languages and linguistic legitimacies, linguistic ecology in educational settings and plurilinguistic practices in universities. Many extra educational materials and a wide-ranging bibliography are available to the user.
The special issue on “Regional Worlds,” edited by Martin Jones and Anssi Paasi, combines various current theoretical perspectives on the region and accompanies this with empirical examples from Europe, Africa, and North America. The issue attempts to address the still-current significance of the region in geography and breaks down old dichotomous conceptualizations of “region” as either territorial or relational, in order to unite the conceptualizations. The authors point out that regions are constructed according to various disciplinary perspectives on different scales (sub-national, national, supranational, cross-border). They contextualize regions in connection with globalization, border regions, agency/advocacy, social construction, and historical processes of development and change.
