Xavier Ferrer‐gallardo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4001970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xavier Ferrer‐gallardo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xavier |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferrer‐gallardo |
| SIGNATURE | GALLARDO X F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Between the border fence and the boundary line. Territorial leftovers or geopolitical retreat in Melilla
The Ceuta Border Peripeteia: Tasting the Externalities of EU Border Externalization
On May 18th 2021 more than 8000 people irregularly crossed the EU external border between Morocco and Ceuta. Morocco was accused of not acting diligently enough to prevent this unprecedented influx. Interestingly, this occurred in a geopolitical context of rising tensions within Spanish-Moroccan diplomatic relations-triggered by Trump administration’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Spanish former colony of Western Sahara in 2020. Th…
Between crises and borders: Interventions on Mediterranean Neighbourhood and the salience of spatial imaginaries
Revisiting Al‐Idrissi: The Eu and the (Euro)Mediterranean Archipelago Frontier
This contribution has three overarching objectives. First, it seeks to describe the logics of fracture and cohesion governing current geopolitical dynamics in the Mediterranean. Second, in the face of these contradictory tendencies, it proposes the notion of archipelago‐frontier as a concept for deepening our understanding of an ever more dispersed and ubiquitous geography defining the Southern border of the EU. In this light we draw on the conte…
The borderscape of Punta Tarifa: Concurrent invisibilisation practices at Europe’s ultimate peninsula
This contribution aims to provide a cultural–geographical reading of the borderscape of Punta Tarifa: the southernmost point of so-called continental Europe and a key site vis-a-vis material and representational Euro-African (dis)connections. It is argued that Punta Tarifa harbours a complex process of symbolic and functional invisibilisation that turns this border landscape into a highly significant scenario within the ongoing European Union bor…
EU-Limboscapes: Ceuta and the proliferation of migrant detention spaces across the European Union
This Euro-commentary puts the lens on the European Union (EU) North-African city of Ceuta. In so doing, it introduces the notion of EU limboscapes. In the 1990s and early 2000s the iconic twin-metal fencing of Ceuta’s borders added powerful visual strength to the metaphorical Fortress Europe. Today, Ceuta is still (or even more) central when it comes to the conceptual understanding of the socio-spatial articulation of the EU project vis-à-vis mig…
E urope without an Endpoint. Period
This contribution focuses on the borderscape of a flat area situated at the southernmost tip of G ibraltar, at the edge of the E uropean C ontinent, which is illustratively and interestingly named E uropa P oint . We will argue that, as an evoking geographical belvedere of cultural and continental interrelationships, E uropa P oint directs attention to the inherent sociospatial ambiguities of EU rope. Embodying a crucial topo within the E uropean…
Territorial (Dis)continuity Dynamics Between Ceuta and Morocco: Conflictual Fortification Vis‐à‐vis Co‐operative Interaction at the Eu Border in Africa
This contribution examines the development of territorial dynamics on the Ceuta‐Morocco border region in the context of the structural Spanish‐Moroccan rebordering that followed Spain's EU entry. The evolution of border practice is canvassed through the confronting notions of territorial discontinuity and territorial continuity. Clearly, current territorial dynamics between Ceuta and Morocco are characterised by both the existence of conflictive …
The Spanish-Moroccan border complex: Processes of geopolitical, functional and symbolic rebordering
The Spanish-Moroccan border complex: Processes of geopolitical, functional and symbolic rebordering
EU-Limboscapes: Ceuta and the proliferation of migrant detention spaces across the European Union
This Euro-commentary puts the lens on the European Union (EU) North-African city of Ceuta. In so doing, it introduces the notion of EU limboscapes. In the 1990s and early 2000s the iconic twin-metal fencing of Ceuta’s borders added powerful visual strength to the metaphorical Fortress Europe. Today, Ceuta is still (or even more) central when it comes to the conceptual understanding of the socio-spatial articulation of the EU project vis-à-vis mig…
The Ceuta Border Peripeteia: Tasting the Externalities of EU Border Externalization
On May 18th 2021 more than 8000 people irregularly crossed the EU external border between Morocco and Ceuta. Morocco was accused of not acting diligently enough to prevent this unprecedented influx. Interestingly, this occurred in a geopolitical context of rising tensions within Spanish-Moroccan diplomatic relations-triggered by Trump administration’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Spanish former colony of Western Sahara in 2020. Th…
Between crises and borders: Interventions on Mediterranean Neighbourhood and the salience of spatial imaginaries
Revisiting Al‐Idrissi: The Eu and the (Euro)Mediterranean Archipelago Frontier
This contribution has three overarching objectives. First, it seeks to describe the logics of fracture and cohesion governing current geopolitical dynamics in the Mediterranean. Second, in the face of these contradictory tendencies, it proposes the notion of archipelago‐frontier as a concept for deepening our understanding of an ever more dispersed and ubiquitous geography defining the Southern border of the EU. In this light we draw on the conte…
The borderscape of Punta Tarifa: Concurrent invisibilisation practices at Europe’s ultimate peninsula
This contribution aims to provide a cultural–geographical reading of the borderscape of Punta Tarifa: the southernmost point of so-called continental Europe and a key site vis-a-vis material and representational Euro-African (dis)connections. It is argued that Punta Tarifa harbours a complex process of symbolic and functional invisibilisation that turns this border landscape into a highly significant scenario within the ongoing European Union bor…
E urope without an Endpoint. Period
This contribution focuses on the borderscape of a flat area situated at the southernmost tip of G ibraltar, at the edge of the E uropean C ontinent, which is illustratively and interestingly named E uropa P oint . We will argue that, as an evoking geographical belvedere of cultural and continental interrelationships, E uropa P oint directs attention to the inherent sociospatial ambiguities of EU rope. Embodying a crucial topo within the E uropean…
Territorial (Dis)continuity Dynamics Between Ceuta and Morocco: Conflictual Fortification Vis‐à‐vis Co‐operative Interaction at the Eu Border in Africa
This contribution examines the development of territorial dynamics on the Ceuta‐Morocco border region in the context of the structural Spanish‐Moroccan rebordering that followed Spain's EU entry. The evolution of border practice is canvassed through the confronting notions of territorial discontinuity and territorial continuity. Clearly, current territorial dynamics between Ceuta and Morocco are characterised by both the existence of conflictive …
The Spanish-Moroccan border complex: Processes of geopolitical, functional and symbolic rebordering
Territorial (Dis)continuity Dynamics Between Ceuta and Morocco: Conflictual Fortification Vis‐à‐vis Co‐operative Interaction at the Eu Border in Africa
This contribution examines the development of territorial dynamics on the Ceuta‐Morocco border region in the context of the structural Spanish‐Moroccan rebordering that followed Spain's EU entry. The evolution of border practice is canvassed through the confronting notions of territorial discontinuity and territorial continuity. Clearly, current territorial dynamics between Ceuta and Morocco are characterised by both the existence of conflictive …
EU-Limboscapes: Ceuta and the proliferation of migrant detention spaces across the European Union
This Euro-commentary puts the lens on the European Union (EU) North-African city of Ceuta. In so doing, it introduces the notion of EU limboscapes. In the 1990s and early 2000s the iconic twin-metal fencing of Ceuta’s borders added powerful visual strength to the metaphorical Fortress Europe. Today, Ceuta is still (or even more) central when it comes to the conceptual understanding of the socio-spatial articulation of the EU project vis-à-vis mig…
E urope without an Endpoint. Period
This contribution focuses on the borderscape of a flat area situated at the southernmost tip of G ibraltar, at the edge of the E uropean C ontinent, which is illustratively and interestingly named E uropa P oint . We will argue that, as an evoking geographical belvedere of cultural and continental interrelationships, E uropa P oint directs attention to the inherent sociospatial ambiguities of EU rope. Embodying a crucial topo within the E uropean…
The borderscape of Punta Tarifa: Concurrent invisibilisation practices at Europe’s ultimate peninsula
This contribution aims to provide a cultural–geographical reading of the borderscape of Punta Tarifa: the southernmost point of so-called continental Europe and a key site vis-a-vis material and representational Euro-African (dis)connections. It is argued that Punta Tarifa harbours a complex process of symbolic and functional invisibilisation that turns this border landscape into a highly significant scenario within the ongoing European Union bor…
Revisiting Al‐Idrissi: The Eu and the (Euro)Mediterranean Archipelago Frontier
This contribution has three overarching objectives. First, it seeks to describe the logics of fracture and cohesion governing current geopolitical dynamics in the Mediterranean. Second, in the face of these contradictory tendencies, it proposes the notion of archipelago‐frontier as a concept for deepening our understanding of an ever more dispersed and ubiquitous geography defining the Southern border of the EU. In this light we draw on the conte…
Between crises and borders: Interventions on Mediterranean Neighbourhood and the salience of spatial imaginaries
The Ceuta Border Peripeteia: Tasting the Externalities of EU Border Externalization
On May 18th 2021 more than 8000 people irregularly crossed the EU external border between Morocco and Ceuta. Morocco was accused of not acting diligently enough to prevent this unprecedented influx. Interestingly, this occurred in a geopolitical context of rising tensions within Spanish-Moroccan diplomatic relations-triggered by Trump administration’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Spanish former colony of Western Sahara in 2020. Th…
Between the border fence and the boundary line. Territorial leftovers or geopolitical retreat in Melilla
Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (7 works) · Geopolitics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · China's Global Influence and Migration (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)