Christophe Sohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1239734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christophe Sohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christophe |
| FAMILY NAME | Sohn |
| SIGNATURE | SOHN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2448-288X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 210 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Resourcing the Border: Examining Calibaja's Megaregional Imaginary
In this article I examine how the US–Mexico border is framed within the CaliBaja Bi‐National Megaregion, a cross‐border initiative promoting the region as a competitive hub for business and innovation. The study, which draws on the concept of spatial imaginaries, highlights how regional boosters selectively construct and mobilize narratives that portray CaliBaja as a seamless, borderless megaregion with complementary resources across San Diego, I…
“Divided by a River, Connected by a Bridge”: The Border as a Semiotic Resource in the Case of Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice
This paper examines how local and regional actors mobilize border-related semiotic resources in the discursive and material construction of the German-Polish borderland in Frankfurt (Oder)-Słubice. Drawing on social semiotics and geosemiotics, it analyzes how meaning is produced through the strategic use of linguistic, visual, and spatial signs. The analysis focuses on the interplay of symbolization and indexicality, showing how signs simultaneou…
Landscape imaginaries as sources of resilience: German-Polish cross-border cooperation and the Oder River
This paper focuses on appropriations of Oder River landscapes as resources in promoting notions of a shared regional space along the German-Polish border. Riverine landscapes, wetlands and other natural areas are elements of border-spanning geographical imaginaries that have connected different actor groups across the border. At the same time, the political nature of cross-border landscapes has revealed itself in conflicted understandings, compet…
The impact of rebordering on cross-border cooperation actors’ discourses in the Öresund region. A semantic network approach
The succession of rebordering shocks that occurred in recent years raises questions about the implications of these (geo)political events for cross-border cooperation. Based on the premise that special attention should be paid to the evolution of ideas pertaining to borders as a forerunner of significant policy changes, this paper seeks to show the extent to which the reintroduction of temporary border controls between Sweden and Denmark since 20…
Mapping the cross-border cooperation ‘galaxy’: An exploration of scalar arrangements in Europe
The development of cross-border regionalism in Europe has given rise to a multitude of academic works focussing on the pattern, signification and evolution of cross-border cooperation. Most previous studies have, however, focused on individual cross-border cooperation initiatives as units of analysis and neglected their spatial relation to other initiatives. By mapping the perimeter, activity, geographical type, scale and spatial relations of 209…
Border cities: Out of the shadow
How to brand a border despite its wall? A social semiotics approach to cross-border place branding
This paper explores the ways in which borders are likely to be used as a semiotic resource in cross-border place branding. We develop a conceptual framework, distinguishing two meaning-making strategies: one that seeks to valorize borders as assets for cross-border place branding and another that relies on their invisibilization in order to promote, implicitly, the legitimacy of a seamless cross-border regional imaginary. For each meaning-making …
Bringing borders back into cross-border regional innovation systems: Functions and dynamics
International boundaries have been mainly considered as barriers in literature on the 'cross-border regional innovation system' (CBRIS), in line with their traditional understanding. In this paper, we underline that such a perspective presents limits, and argue in favour of an understanding of multidimensional borders that are subject to dynamic change over time. By mobilizing conceptualizations from the field of border studies, we examine the va…
Introduction to a New “Commentaries” Section in the Journal of Borderlands Studies
Ghost in the Genevan borderscape! On the symbolic significance of an “invisible” border
This paper explores the symbolic significance of national borders in a cross‐border regional context. The main argument is that the transformation of borders is actually part of a complex and contested process of symbolisation, predicated on articulations between political projects, everyday experience, and collective memories. The Greater Geneva borderscape provides an emblematic case of cross‐border cooperation that is marked by the physical er…
Place-making and the bordering of urban space: Interpreting the emergence of new neighbourhoods in Berlin and Budapest
The objective of this paper is to theorize border-making processes in urban contexts as exemplary of the ways in which borders within human societies are formed. In fact, the question as to whether socially meaningful borders are created through state-society and systemic relations or whether they ultimately emerge locally out of social relations is not as trivial as it might seem. The concept of ‘bordering’ implies non-finalizable processes in w…
The co-mingling of bordering dynamics in the San Diego–Tijuana cross-border metropolis
The co-mingling of bordering dynamics in the San Diego–Tijuana cross-border metropolis. Territory, Politics, Governance. The focus of this paper is on the processes of ‘debordering’ and ‘rebordering’, and more specifically on what occurs when both forces collide and confront their contrasting goals. The hypothesis developed argues that the two bordering dynamics do not merely contest each other, they also interact and co-mingle. A tripartite anal…
Cartography of a Blind Spot: An Exploratory Analysis of European Border Cities
Despite the importance of national borders in the process of European integration and its destiny, border areas remain relatively misrecognised. This is particularly true as regards the contemporary geography of border cities across Europe. It is therefore difficult to assess what importance border cities and cross‐border urban regions have and how they have evolved in parallel with the transformation of European borders. The aim of this paper is…
The multiple effects of borders on metropolitan functions in Europe
This paper examines the effects of borders on the performance of metropolitan areas in Europe. An innovative multidimensional conceptualization of border effects into four factors (separation, contact, differentiation and affirmation) is elaborated on and empirically tested. Estimation results confirm the ambivalent effects of the differentiation factor: economic differentials display positive effects, while cultural differences have negative eff…
Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 32(3), pp. 415–416
Navigating borders' multiplicity: The critical potential of assemblage
Various critical and scholarly works have underlined the multiplicity of borders, or the idea that borders mean different things to different people. This paper discusses the potential of the concept of assemblage for better understanding the ontological multidimensionality intrinsic to borders. An assemblage is understood to be a heterogeneous and open‐ended grouping of elements that do not form a coherent whole that helps explain how different …
The Cross-Border Metropolis in a Global Age: A Conceptual Model and Empirical Evidence from the US–Mexico and European Border Regions
In a globalising urban world, cross-border metropolises are important spatial configurations that reflect the interplay between the space of flows and the space of places. This article scrutinises the different logics at play as urbanisation occurs around international boundaries. It disentangles the contradictory "bordering dynamics" that shape cross-border urban spaces in the context of globalisation and territorial restructuring. Because natio…
Modelling Cross-Border Integration: The Role of Borders as a Resource
Cross-border integration is a multifaceted as well as contextually contingent process. While various conceptualisations have been developed, the theoretical foundations of the concept appear insufficient in order to grasp the very significance of such a process of cross-border regionalism. In order to help make sense of the diversity of configurations observed, this article seeks to deconstruct the concept according to the role played by the bord…
The Border as a Resource in the Global Urban Space: A Contribution to the Cross-Border Metropolis Hypothesis
In a globalized urban world, cross-border metropolises represent a spatial configuration emblematic of the interplay between the space of flows and the space of places. The multiplicity of contexts and processes at work can complicate the identification of what constitutes the singularity of the concept. In order to contribute to these reflections the present article hypothesizes that the specificity of cross-border metropolises does not fundamen…
The role of national states in the construction of cross-border metropolitan regions in Europe: A scalar approach
This article is concerned with the role of national governments in the rescaling of cross-border metropolitan governance structures in Europe. In the context of emergent cross-border metropolitan regions, the objective is to highlight the structuring effects of support policies to metropolitan areas at national level, in the context of their politics of scales, on the scalar configurations developed by local and regional actors. Using a comparati…
Comparing Cross-border Metropolitan Integration in Europe: Towards a Functional Typology
This article analyses the process of spatial integration in ten European cross-border metropolitan regions by comparing three indicators, relating to flows of cross-border commuters, differentials of gross domestic product per capita and residents’ citizenship. Our results allow, firstly, confirmation of the hypothesis that the greater the economic disparities, the greater the level of interactions measured by cross-border commuting. Our work als…
Borders and Cities: Perspectives from North America and Europe
Research questions focusing on cities and borders lead one to reflect on the relationship between the two objects which characterize them. Such a bringing-together is not only recent, but also some
Cross-Border Metropolitan Integration in Europe: The Case of Luxembourg, Basel, and Geneva
In this paper we question the integration processes in three small cross-border metropolitan areas: Luxembourg, Basel, and Geneva. By referring to an original analysis framework, we evaluate the nature and intensity of the functional and institutional integration and highlight the elements that structure the cooperation between the actors. The analysis shows that there is not necessarily a reciprocal link between the size of the functional area a…
Métropolisation et intégration transfrontalière: Le paradoxe luxembourgeois
À partir de l’exemple de Luxembourg, cet article traite de l’intégration des espaces frontaliers métropolitains, en s’interrogeant sur l’articulation de leurs propriétés institutionnelles et fonctionnelles. Dans un premier temps, il questionne l’évolution fonctionnelle de l’aire métropolitaine en prenant pour variable l’intensité des flux pendulaires, l’objectif étant de montrer l’existence d’un espace métropolitain aux dimensions transfrontalièr…
L’enclavement ethnique en Namibie. Du cloisonnement territorial à la structuration des identités
Le territoire namibien a été structuré selon une logique d’enclavement tout au long de son histoire coloniale. Les pouvoirs successifs, particulièrement le régime d’apartheid, n’ont eu de cesse d’imposer leur idéologie territoriale basée sur l’idée de cloisonnement et de mise à l’écart des populations africaines, tant à l’échelle du pays qu’au niveau des centres urbains. Tantôt imposé par la force, tantôt recherché par des communautés en quête de…
Modelling Cross-Border Integration: The Role of Borders as a Resource
Cross-border integration is a multifaceted as well as contextually contingent process. While various conceptualisations have been developed, the theoretical foundations of the concept appear insufficient in order to grasp the very significance of such a process of cross-border regionalism. In order to help make sense of the diversity of configurations observed, this article seeks to deconstruct the concept according to the role played by the bord…
Comparing Cross-border Metropolitan Integration in Europe: Towards a Functional Typology
This article analyses the process of spatial integration in ten European cross-border metropolitan regions by comparing three indicators, relating to flows of cross-border commuters, differentials of gross domestic product per capita and residents’ citizenship. Our results allow, firstly, confirmation of the hypothesis that the greater the economic disparities, the greater the level of interactions measured by cross-border commuting. Our work als…
The Border as a Resource in the Global Urban Space: A Contribution to the Cross-Border Metropolis Hypothesis
In a globalized urban world, cross-border metropolises represent a spatial configuration emblematic of the interplay between the space of flows and the space of places. The multiplicity of contexts and processes at work can complicate the identification of what constitutes the singularity of the concept. In order to contribute to these reflections the present article hypothesizes that the specificity of cross-border metropolises does not fundamen…
The multiple effects of borders on metropolitan functions in Europe
This paper examines the effects of borders on the performance of metropolitan areas in Europe. An innovative multidimensional conceptualization of border effects into four factors (separation, contact, differentiation and affirmation) is elaborated on and empirically tested. Estimation results confirm the ambivalent effects of the differentiation factor: economic differentials display positive effects, while cultural differences have negative eff…
Navigating borders' multiplicity: The critical potential of assemblage
Various critical and scholarly works have underlined the multiplicity of borders, or the idea that borders mean different things to different people. This paper discusses the potential of the concept of assemblage for better understanding the ontological multidimensionality intrinsic to borders. An assemblage is understood to be a heterogeneous and open‐ended grouping of elements that do not form a coherent whole that helps explain how different …
The co-mingling of bordering dynamics in the San Diego–Tijuana cross-border metropolis
The co-mingling of bordering dynamics in the San Diego–Tijuana cross-border metropolis. Territory, Politics, Governance. The focus of this paper is on the processes of ‘debordering’ and ‘rebordering’, and more specifically on what occurs when both forces collide and confront their contrasting goals. The hypothesis developed argues that the two bordering dynamics do not merely contest each other, they also interact and co-mingle. A tripartite anal…
The Cross-Border Metropolis in a Global Age: A Conceptual Model and Empirical Evidence from the US–Mexico and European Border Regions
In a globalising urban world, cross-border metropolises are important spatial configurations that reflect the interplay between the space of flows and the space of places. This article scrutinises the different logics at play as urbanisation occurs around international boundaries. It disentangles the contradictory "bordering dynamics" that shape cross-border urban spaces in the context of globalisation and territorial restructuring. Because natio…
Place-making and the bordering of urban space: Interpreting the emergence of new neighbourhoods in Berlin and Budapest
The objective of this paper is to theorize border-making processes in urban contexts as exemplary of the ways in which borders within human societies are formed. In fact, the question as to whether socially meaningful borders are created through state-society and systemic relations or whether they ultimately emerge locally out of social relations is not as trivial as it might seem. The concept of ‘bordering’ implies non-finalizable processes in w…
Borders and Cities: Perspectives from North America and Europe
Research questions focusing on cities and borders lead one to reflect on the relationship between the two objects which characterize them. Such a bringing-together is not only recent, but also some
Bringing borders back into cross-border regional innovation systems: Functions and dynamics
International boundaries have been mainly considered as barriers in literature on the 'cross-border regional innovation system' (CBRIS), in line with their traditional understanding. In this paper, we underline that such a perspective presents limits, and argue in favour of an understanding of multidimensional borders that are subject to dynamic change over time. By mobilizing conceptualizations from the field of border studies, we examine the va…
Ghost in the Genevan borderscape! On the symbolic significance of an “invisible” border
This paper explores the symbolic significance of national borders in a cross‐border regional context. The main argument is that the transformation of borders is actually part of a complex and contested process of symbolisation, predicated on articulations between political projects, everyday experience, and collective memories. The Greater Geneva borderscape provides an emblematic case of cross‐border cooperation that is marked by the physical er…
Border cities: Out of the shadow
The impact of rebordering on cross-border cooperation actors’ discourses in the Öresund region. A semantic network approach
The succession of rebordering shocks that occurred in recent years raises questions about the implications of these (geo)political events for cross-border cooperation. Based on the premise that special attention should be paid to the evolution of ideas pertaining to borders as a forerunner of significant policy changes, this paper seeks to show the extent to which the reintroduction of temporary border controls between Sweden and Denmark since 20…
How to brand a border despite its wall? A social semiotics approach to cross-border place branding
This paper explores the ways in which borders are likely to be used as a semiotic resource in cross-border place branding. We develop a conceptual framework, distinguishing two meaning-making strategies: one that seeks to valorize borders as assets for cross-border place branding and another that relies on their invisibilization in order to promote, implicitly, the legitimacy of a seamless cross-border regional imaginary. For each meaning-making …
The role of national states in the construction of cross-border metropolitan regions in Europe: A scalar approach
This article is concerned with the role of national governments in the rescaling of cross-border metropolitan governance structures in Europe. In the context of emergent cross-border metropolitan regions, the objective is to highlight the structuring effects of support policies to metropolitan areas at national level, in the context of their politics of scales, on the scalar configurations developed by local and regional actors. Using a comparati…
Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 32(3), pp. 415–416
Cartography of a Blind Spot: An Exploratory Analysis of European Border Cities
Despite the importance of national borders in the process of European integration and its destiny, border areas remain relatively misrecognised. This is particularly true as regards the contemporary geography of border cities across Europe. It is therefore difficult to assess what importance border cities and cross‐border urban regions have and how they have evolved in parallel with the transformation of European borders. The aim of this paper is…
De l'urbanité post-apartheid à Windhoek (Namibie): Entre permanence et changement, une mutation par l’hybride
La fin de l'apartheid en Afrique australe pose la question du rééquilibrage des espaces urbains profondément structurés selon les principes de l'idéologie du développement séparé. Bien que de taille modeste, Windhoek présente une grande lisibilité de la structure urbaine contemporaine, lisibilité qui confère à cette ville un statut de « laboratoire social ». On y observe la résistance de l'ordre ancien par le maintien du cadre réglementaire et la…
Les municipalités namibiennes: Top models ou dinosaures
Au-delà des apparences flatteuses, les municipalités namibiennes souffrent de graves désarticulations, aggravées par les compromis politiques qui ont marqué l'accession à l'indépendance et par l'afflux de populations non solvables. Profondément marquées par la diversité, elles ne semblent pas pouvoir constituer le modèle vers lequel on voudrait faire converger les autres collectivités urbaines
Le shebeen, révélateur de changements gestionnaires dans la ville post-apartheid: Le cas de Windhoek (Namibie)
Dans une Namibie qui a accédé à l’indépendance en 1990, les modes de penser et de faire la ville restent encore largement empreints des réglementations urbaines héritées de la période d’apartheid. Cependant, l’apparition de pratiques citadines parfois inédites oblige les responsables de la gestion urbaine à innover de manière à réguler les nouveaux rapports sociaux. Dans le dessein de mettre en évidence les logiques sous-jacentes à l’émergence de…
L’enclavement ethnique en Namibie. Du cloisonnement territorial à la structuration des identités
Le territoire namibien a été structuré selon une logique d’enclavement tout au long de son histoire coloniale. Les pouvoirs successifs, particulièrement le régime d’apartheid, n’ont eu de cesse d’imposer leur idéologie territoriale basée sur l’idée de cloisonnement et de mise à l’écart des populations africaines, tant à l’échelle du pays qu’au niveau des centres urbains. Tantôt imposé par la force, tantôt recherché par des communautés en quête de…
De l'urbanité post-apartheid à Windhoek (Namibie): Entre permanence et changement, une mutation par l’hybride
La fin de l'apartheid en Afrique australe pose la question du rééquilibrage des espaces urbains profondément structurés selon les principes de l'idéologie du développement séparé. Bien que de taille modeste, Windhoek présente une grande lisibilité de la structure urbaine contemporaine, lisibilité qui confère à cette ville un statut de « laboratoire social ». On y observe la résistance de l'ordre ancien par le maintien du cadre réglementaire et la…
Cross-Border Metropolitan Integration in Europe: The Case of Luxembourg, Basel, and Geneva
In this paper we question the integration processes in three small cross-border metropolitan areas: Luxembourg, Basel, and Geneva. By referring to an original analysis framework, we evaluate the nature and intensity of the functional and institutional integration and highlight the elements that structure the cooperation between the actors. The analysis shows that there is not necessarily a reciprocal link between the size of the functional area a…
Métropolisation et intégration transfrontalière: Le paradoxe luxembourgeois
À partir de l’exemple de Luxembourg, cet article traite de l’intégration des espaces frontaliers métropolitains, en s’interrogeant sur l’articulation de leurs propriétés institutionnelles et fonctionnelles. Dans un premier temps, il questionne l’évolution fonctionnelle de l’aire métropolitaine en prenant pour variable l’intensité des flux pendulaires, l’objectif étant de montrer l’existence d’un espace métropolitain aux dimensions transfrontalièr…
The role of national states in the construction of cross-border metropolitan regions in Europe: A scalar approach
This article is concerned with the role of national governments in the rescaling of cross-border metropolitan governance structures in Europe. In the context of emergent cross-border metropolitan regions, the objective is to highlight the structuring effects of support policies to metropolitan areas at national level, in the context of their politics of scales, on the scalar configurations developed by local and regional actors. Using a comparati…
Comparing Cross-border Metropolitan Integration in Europe: Towards a Functional Typology
This article analyses the process of spatial integration in ten European cross-border metropolitan regions by comparing three indicators, relating to flows of cross-border commuters, differentials of gross domestic product per capita and residents’ citizenship. Our results allow, firstly, confirmation of the hypothesis that the greater the economic disparities, the greater the level of interactions measured by cross-border commuting. Our work als…
Borders and Cities: Perspectives from North America and Europe
Research questions focusing on cities and borders lead one to reflect on the relationship between the two objects which characterize them. Such a bringing-together is not only recent, but also some
The Cross-Border Metropolis in a Global Age: A Conceptual Model and Empirical Evidence from the US–Mexico and European Border Regions
In a globalising urban world, cross-border metropolises are important spatial configurations that reflect the interplay between the space of flows and the space of places. This article scrutinises the different logics at play as urbanisation occurs around international boundaries. It disentangles the contradictory "bordering dynamics" that shape cross-border urban spaces in the context of globalisation and territorial restructuring. Because natio…
Modelling Cross-Border Integration: The Role of Borders as a Resource
Cross-border integration is a multifaceted as well as contextually contingent process. While various conceptualisations have been developed, the theoretical foundations of the concept appear insufficient in order to grasp the very significance of such a process of cross-border regionalism. In order to help make sense of the diversity of configurations observed, this article seeks to deconstruct the concept according to the role played by the bord…
The Border as a Resource in the Global Urban Space: A Contribution to the Cross-Border Metropolis Hypothesis
In a globalized urban world, cross-border metropolises represent a spatial configuration emblematic of the interplay between the space of flows and the space of places. The multiplicity of contexts and processes at work can complicate the identification of what constitutes the singularity of the concept. In order to contribute to these reflections the present article hypothesizes that the specificity of cross-border metropolises does not fundamen…
Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 32(3), pp. 415–416
Navigating borders' multiplicity: The critical potential of assemblage
Various critical and scholarly works have underlined the multiplicity of borders, or the idea that borders mean different things to different people. This paper discusses the potential of the concept of assemblage for better understanding the ontological multidimensionality intrinsic to borders. An assemblage is understood to be a heterogeneous and open‐ended grouping of elements that do not form a coherent whole that helps explain how different …
The co-mingling of bordering dynamics in the San Diego–Tijuana cross-border metropolis
The co-mingling of bordering dynamics in the San Diego–Tijuana cross-border metropolis. Territory, Politics, Governance. The focus of this paper is on the processes of ‘debordering’ and ‘rebordering’, and more specifically on what occurs when both forces collide and confront their contrasting goals. The hypothesis developed argues that the two bordering dynamics do not merely contest each other, they also interact and co-mingle. A tripartite anal…
Cartography of a Blind Spot: An Exploratory Analysis of European Border Cities
Despite the importance of national borders in the process of European integration and its destiny, border areas remain relatively misrecognised. This is particularly true as regards the contemporary geography of border cities across Europe. It is therefore difficult to assess what importance border cities and cross‐border urban regions have and how they have evolved in parallel with the transformation of European borders. The aim of this paper is…
The multiple effects of borders on metropolitan functions in Europe
This paper examines the effects of borders on the performance of metropolitan areas in Europe. An innovative multidimensional conceptualization of border effects into four factors (separation, contact, differentiation and affirmation) is elaborated on and empirically tested. Estimation results confirm the ambivalent effects of the differentiation factor: economic differentials display positive effects, while cultural differences have negative eff…
Place-making and the bordering of urban space: Interpreting the emergence of new neighbourhoods in Berlin and Budapest
The objective of this paper is to theorize border-making processes in urban contexts as exemplary of the ways in which borders within human societies are formed. In fact, the question as to whether socially meaningful borders are created through state-society and systemic relations or whether they ultimately emerge locally out of social relations is not as trivial as it might seem. The concept of ‘bordering’ implies non-finalizable processes in w…
Ghost in the Genevan borderscape! On the symbolic significance of an “invisible” border
This paper explores the symbolic significance of national borders in a cross‐border regional context. The main argument is that the transformation of borders is actually part of a complex and contested process of symbolisation, predicated on articulations between political projects, everyday experience, and collective memories. The Greater Geneva borderscape provides an emblematic case of cross‐border cooperation that is marked by the physical er…
Introduction to a New “Commentaries” Section in the Journal of Borderlands Studies
Mapping the cross-border cooperation ‘galaxy’: An exploration of scalar arrangements in Europe
The development of cross-border regionalism in Europe has given rise to a multitude of academic works focussing on the pattern, signification and evolution of cross-border cooperation. Most previous studies have, however, focused on individual cross-border cooperation initiatives as units of analysis and neglected their spatial relation to other initiatives. By mapping the perimeter, activity, geographical type, scale and spatial relations of 209…
Border cities: Out of the shadow
How to brand a border despite its wall? A social semiotics approach to cross-border place branding
This paper explores the ways in which borders are likely to be used as a semiotic resource in cross-border place branding. We develop a conceptual framework, distinguishing two meaning-making strategies: one that seeks to valorize borders as assets for cross-border place branding and another that relies on their invisibilization in order to promote, implicitly, the legitimacy of a seamless cross-border regional imaginary. For each meaning-making …
Bringing borders back into cross-border regional innovation systems: Functions and dynamics
International boundaries have been mainly considered as barriers in literature on the 'cross-border regional innovation system' (CBRIS), in line with their traditional understanding. In this paper, we underline that such a perspective presents limits, and argue in favour of an understanding of multidimensional borders that are subject to dynamic change over time. By mobilizing conceptualizations from the field of border studies, we examine the va…
The impact of rebordering on cross-border cooperation actors’ discourses in the Öresund region. A semantic network approach
The succession of rebordering shocks that occurred in recent years raises questions about the implications of these (geo)political events for cross-border cooperation. Based on the premise that special attention should be paid to the evolution of ideas pertaining to borders as a forerunner of significant policy changes, this paper seeks to show the extent to which the reintroduction of temporary border controls between Sweden and Denmark since 20…
Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · Economic geography (16 works) · Geography (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Regional science (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Local Governance and Planning (6 works) · Politics (6 works)