Deconstructing border practices in the Estonian-Russian borderland

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3948667
AutoresEiki Berg (0000-0002-9845-892X, University of Tartu, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen5
Número3
Páginas78-98
Fecha de publicación2000-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650040008407692
OpenAlexW2071573366
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas11

The Estonian‐Russian borderland is a relatively fragile, fairly contested and highly politicised arena in which a number of vital issues for both countries meet and are negotiated. This fact makes the borderland a part of the (geo)political process, including bargaining over social space and resource access, where one can find actors located on different spatial levels and situated among various interests groups. The present article attempts to study how borders with a multitude of meanings and roles can be understood and crossed in time, scale and from different geographical settings. It illuminates the conflicting visions and asymmetric interests among the local borderland population, regional authorities, central governments and international actors. Lastly, it will be argued that border negotiations are unlikely to succeed or intensify where conflicting visions and asymmetric interests dominate, different actors talk ‘different languages’, or boundary‐producing practices simply prevail over border‐crossing practices

Estonian · Multitude · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Situated · Sociology · Vision · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration