Working Papers
The UniGR-CBS Working Paper series publishes the theoretical/conceptual and empirical results of border research, as well as making them accessible to the scientific community. The intention is to make the border studies more visible and to support the exchange between border researchers inside and outside the Greater Region. Please contact lola.aubry@uni.lu for any publication inquiries.
Working Paper Vol. 22: Towards a New Departure in Border Studies? A Comment on the Increasing Talk of Complexity
Since the mid-2010s at the latest, there has been discussion of the border as a complex phenomenon, aimed at a more comprehensive and differentiated understanding of b/orderings. However, there seems to be an imprecise use of the term ‘complexity’ in the academic debate, and sometimes, still, an everyday understanding of complexity prevails. To sharpen the debate around a border’s complexity,…
Border studiesBordering TurnComplexity ShiftComplexity Theory
Working Paper Vol. 21: Euroscepticisme et effet frontière : Le cas de la région française du Grand Est, lors des élections européennes de 2024
The scientific literature on the Euroscepticism of border populations provides contradictory results. This Working Paper takes a spatial approach, to show that the level of support for the EU among border populations should be surveyed on a local scale, and not on a regional scale. Euroscepticism is estimated on the basis of the vote in the European elections of June 2024, in the case of the…
euroscepticismeBorderlandsEuropean electionsGrand Est
Working Paper Vol. 20: Komplexitätsdenken und Grenzforschung: Überlegungen und Perspektiven zu einem vielversprechenden Verhältnis
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 qualified as complex in border research and…
Border studiesKomplexitätBordering TurnComplexity ShiftBorder Complexitiestexturale Ontologie
Working Paper Vol. 19: San Diego, California: Borderland Dynamics Between North Park and Mid-City
San Diego’s central neighborhoods are in the midst of a municipally and privately led redevelopment phase, which is gradually progressing from one neighborhood to the other and slowly transforming lower-income communities into ‘trendy’ places for affluent populations. This is particularly the case in the neighborhood of North Park, which has been redeveloped in the last decades and has…
urban bordershybrid urban borderlandsurban bordering processesUrban development
Working Paper Vol. 18: Understanding Russia’s War in Ukraine. Borders, Identities, and Boundaries: An Interview with Julia Buyskykh, Alina Mozolevska, and Oleksandr Pronkevich
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led not only to the shift of real and mental borders in Europe but has also driven profound changes of geopolitical visions of the contemporary world and its economic, political, and social future. In which ways is Russia’s war in Ukraine related to issues of borders and identity? This interview addresses the many geopolitical, social, and existential…
War in UkraineRole of BordersIdentityWestsplaining