The Transnational: Practices and Representations

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In the wake of a pandemic that has disrupted established practices of crossing borders in Europe and around the world, this volume proposes a rethinking of the uses and representations of the cross-border phenomenon in light of the following question: who creates the cross-border phenomenon, who shapes it, who makes it viable? Citizens, governments, local elected representatives?
Moreover, there is no such thing as an archetypal cross-border space: there are as many ways of engaging with cross-border issues as there are cross-border situations. And it is not enough to say that the cross-border reality of the Upper Rhine is not the same as that of the Saar-Lor-Lux Greater Region, or that the ways in which the cross-border is used in French-speaking Canada bear little resemblance to the cross-border practices implemented by the Chinese state: we must also take into account the fact that every cross-border space is constantly shaped and transformed by countless political, economic, commercial, logistical and cultural tensions. This is why, in order to theorise the cross-border phenomenon, we have decided to draw on a series of case studies conducted by researchers from a variety of disciplines, ranging from literature and sociology to information and communication sciences, educational sciences and archaeology.

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