Bettina Bruns
Biographic Data
| ID | 5149910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bettina Bruns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bettina |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruns |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bringing defence back home
This article examines how Poland and Germany, despite implementing structurally similar reforms in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, articulate divergent cultural understandings of defence and security. Using the concept of security imaginaries – the shared meanings through which societies interpret international security – we compare two formations central to the return of territorial defence: Poland’s Territorial Defence Forc…
A union in distress
Europe as a spatial concept and space in practice has witnessed a variety of integrative as well as disintegrative tendencies over the past decades. While a binary concept of the terms integration and disintegration has dominated a vast proportion of public discussion as well as academic literature, some authors advance a more differentiated view. The introduction of this special issue will pick up the threads of these debates and connect them to…
Security through emotions
Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea, militarization processes have started to take place in central and eastern Europe. In Poland, one element of this development is the establishment of Territorial Defence Forces (TDF) in 2017. They are assigned to support their local communities, to strengthen patriotism, and to provide a feeling of security among the local population. Drawing from official websites and social media accounts of TDF as well as f…
Besonders sensibel. Wie sich heikle Themen angehen lassen
Homogenous and Extra-territorial Border Regime? Migrations and Control Efforts Across the Eastern EU External Border
In light of the high amount of refugees wishing to cross the EU’s external borders into the Union, the border regime is becoming more and more standardized and, to a great extent, involves the EU neighbor states. These are confronted with a double strategy with regard to their involvement in the EU’s migration policy. On the one hand, the EU tries to guarantee its own security by setting up a tough border regime. On the other hand, the EU strives…
The EU and Its “Ring of Friends”—Eye-level or Top-down Relationships
The EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was launched in 2004 as an external strategy to bind and harmonize the larger neighborhood. This external governance approach includes hierarchical and network elements with the goal of maintaining external and internal stability and security. As a replacement for the enlargement policy with the prospect of future membership, this foreign policy approach is perceived differently by the Eastern neighbor…
Dealing with “lived experience”. Benefits and limitations
In this paper we discuss various experiences we have made during fieldwork. Firstly, we will have a closer look at the categories “field” and “place” in general. As the field in our case is derived from a policy approach on the European Union level – a comprehensive political strategy addressed to the neighbouring countries and as the fieldwork is additionally embedded in a research project drawing on different disciplinary approaches we clarify …
Subverting Borders
With contributions by Rory Archer, Krisztina Racz, Just Boedeker, Martin Doevenspeck, Nene Morisho Mwanabiningo, Kapitolina Fedorova, Gulcan Kolay, Tobias Kraudzun, Ewa Matejko, Enza Petrillo, Luisa Piart, Abel Polese, Anna Stammler-Gossmann, Muyassar Turaeva, Andrea Weiss, Lale Yalcin-Heckmann, Nino Aivazishvili
Smuggling and small‐scale trade as part of informal economic practices
Purpose Using small‐scale cross‐border trade and smuggling as an example of an informal practice carried out in many post‐socialist countries, the purpose of this paper is to explore which different meanings this activity possesses for the people being involved in it and in how far small‐scale cross‐border trade is being accepted and looked at by society. The authors hope to show the different connections between informal and formal activities an…
Grenze als Ressource
Schmuggel von Zigaretten und Alkohol dient vielen Einwohnern der ostpolnischen Grenzregionen vor dem Hintergrund hoher Arbeitslosigkeit und geringem Lohnniveau als wichtige Erwerbsquelle innerhalb einer regionalen Armutsökonomie. Trotz seiner hohen gesellschaftlichen Relevanz für Ostmitteleuropa und die Europäische Union steckt die sozialwissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Schmuggel aufgrund des schwierigen Zugangs zu der illegalen Tätigkeit noch…
Grenze als Ressource
Grenze Als Ressource
Homogenous and Extra-territorial Border Regime? Migrations and Control Efforts Across the Eastern EU External Border
In light of the high amount of refugees wishing to cross the EU’s external borders into the Union, the border regime is becoming more and more standardized and, to a great extent, involves the EU neighbor states. These are confronted with a double strategy with regard to their involvement in the EU’s migration policy. On the one hand, the EU tries to guarantee its own security by setting up a tough border regime. On the other hand, the EU strives…
Smuggling and small‐scale trade as part of informal economic practices
Purpose Using small‐scale cross‐border trade and smuggling as an example of an informal practice carried out in many post‐socialist countries, the purpose of this paper is to explore which different meanings this activity possesses for the people being involved in it and in how far small‐scale cross‐border trade is being accepted and looked at by society. The authors hope to show the different connections between informal and formal activities an…
Grenze Als Ressource
Grenze als Ressource
Schmuggel von Zigaretten und Alkohol dient vielen Einwohnern der ostpolnischen Grenzregionen vor dem Hintergrund hoher Arbeitslosigkeit und geringem Lohnniveau als wichtige Erwerbsquelle innerhalb einer regionalen Armutsökonomie. Trotz seiner hohen gesellschaftlichen Relevanz für Ostmitteleuropa und die Europäische Union steckt die sozialwissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Schmuggel aufgrund des schwierigen Zugangs zu der illegalen Tätigkeit noch…
Grenze als Ressource
Smuggling and small‐scale trade as part of informal economic practices
Purpose Using small‐scale cross‐border trade and smuggling as an example of an informal practice carried out in many post‐socialist countries, the purpose of this paper is to explore which different meanings this activity possesses for the people being involved in it and in how far small‐scale cross‐border trade is being accepted and looked at by society. The authors hope to show the different connections between informal and formal activities an…
Subverting Borders
With contributions by Rory Archer, Krisztina Racz, Just Boedeker, Martin Doevenspeck, Nene Morisho Mwanabiningo, Kapitolina Fedorova, Gulcan Kolay, Tobias Kraudzun, Ewa Matejko, Enza Petrillo, Luisa Piart, Abel Polese, Anna Stammler-Gossmann, Muyassar Turaeva, Andrea Weiss, Lale Yalcin-Heckmann, Nino Aivazishvili
Dealing with “lived experience”. Benefits and limitations
In this paper we discuss various experiences we have made during fieldwork. Firstly, we will have a closer look at the categories “field” and “place” in general. As the field in our case is derived from a policy approach on the European Union level – a comprehensive political strategy addressed to the neighbouring countries and as the fieldwork is additionally embedded in a research project drawing on different disciplinary approaches we clarify …
The EU and Its “Ring of Friends”—Eye-level or Top-down Relationships
The EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was launched in 2004 as an external strategy to bind and harmonize the larger neighborhood. This external governance approach includes hierarchical and network elements with the goal of maintaining external and internal stability and security. As a replacement for the enlargement policy with the prospect of future membership, this foreign policy approach is perceived differently by the Eastern neighbor…
Homogenous and Extra-territorial Border Regime? Migrations and Control Efforts Across the Eastern EU External Border
In light of the high amount of refugees wishing to cross the EU’s external borders into the Union, the border regime is becoming more and more standardized and, to a great extent, involves the EU neighbor states. These are confronted with a double strategy with regard to their involvement in the EU’s migration policy. On the one hand, the EU tries to guarantee its own security by setting up a tough border regime. On the other hand, the EU strives…
Besonders sensibel. Wie sich heikle Themen angehen lassen
Security through emotions
Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea, militarization processes have started to take place in central and eastern Europe. In Poland, one element of this development is the establishment of Territorial Defence Forces (TDF) in 2017. They are assigned to support their local communities, to strengthen patriotism, and to provide a feeling of security among the local population. Drawing from official websites and social media accounts of TDF as well as f…
A union in distress
Europe as a spatial concept and space in practice has witnessed a variety of integrative as well as disintegrative tendencies over the past decades. While a binary concept of the terms integration and disintegration has dominated a vast proportion of public discussion as well as academic literature, some authors advance a more differentiated view. The introduction of this special issue will pick up the threads of these debates and connect them to…
Bringing defence back home
This article examines how Poland and Germany, despite implementing structurally similar reforms in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, articulate divergent cultural understandings of defence and security. Using the concept of security imaginaries – the shared meanings through which societies interpret international security – we compare two formations central to the return of territorial defence: Poland’s Territorial Defence Forc…
Political science (7 works) · Geography (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (3 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · 1990 (2 works) · Bagrationowsk (2 works)