Understanding Empirical Boundaries
A Systems-Theoretical Avenue in Border Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948538 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joren Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author), Kristof Van Assche (0000-0002-8368-1993) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 182-205 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2013.830106 |
| OpenAlex | W1975422264 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
The aim of this contribution is to present a conceptual framework with potential application across the interdisciplinary field of border studies. This framework should embrace interdisciplinarity and the contextual nature of borders. Based on the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann, it elaborates an understanding of borders as being related to a dynamic process of social bordering/bounding processes that involves spatial, social, and conceptual boundaries. By introducing the notion of ‘empirical boundary’, our framework aspires to bridge the gap between (radical) constructivist theorising and the analysis of physical realities involved in the (re)production of boundaries
Conceptual framework · Empirical research · Epistemology · Social constructivism · Social science · Sociology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Mathematics · Philosophy
Rethinking cross-border Euregionalism as self-organising system
Narratives, Networks and Policies (Sulina and Beyond)
Identities on the Move
Re-conceptualising political landscapes after the material turn
Rural public places
Governance and the coastal condition
Discontinuities in regional economic development due to administrative boundaries
Reconfiguring dynamics of bordering/debordering in EU-Eastern neighbours’ relations
Irritation Design
Offshore is a form, not a place
Spatial planning in cross-border regions
Adaptive methodology. Topic, theory, method and data in ongoing conversation
Determinants of cross-border cultural integration
Paradigms of Border Studies and the Metacultural Approach
Narratives of Place and Self
Land for food or power? Risk governance of dams and family farms in Southwest Ethiopia
Years of Luhmann's legacy in the Anglophone academic community
Toward a (co)relational border? Order, care, and chaos at Nordic borders
Police killings and the vicissitudes of borders and bounding orders in Mathare, Nairobi
La dimensión transfronteriza de los planes territoriales y urbanísticos en el ámbito vasco (España-Francia)
Expanding the borders ofThe Sociological Imagination
| Citations per year | 1.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |