The Rabelaisian Border
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olivier Thomas Kramsch (Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, Department of Human Geography, Radboud Universiteit, Postbus 9108, 6500 HK Nijmegen, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1000-1014 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d14508 |
| OpenAlex | W2132683090 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 24 |
In 1930 the French historian Lucien Febvre and geographer Albert Demangeon were commissioned to coauthor a book on the Rhine. In preparation for this volume, and with war clouds gathering on the horizon, they took an upriver Rhineland journey into Europe's heart of darkness. Around this time, Febvre began taking notes for what would later become his magisterial study of François Rabelais. From the intellectual cross-fertilization of these apparently unrelated events this paper suggests Febvre inaugurates a political moment for European border studies, with important resonances for our day. This moment, derived from Febvre's analysis of the Rhine as a vast, integrating force in the modern period and his reading of Rabelais's own stubbornly persistent religiosity, suggests a method for border studies that takes into account the temporal specificity of borders in European history and trains attention on the everyday 'mentalities' of those inhabiting lived borders while foregrounding the problem of the Other as central to any proper understanding of the spatiality of borders. In thus posing the border as a geohistorical histoire-problème, Febvre reinjects the notion of possibility into border studies and makes of border space a properly political object of re-worlding. The paper then reviews a selection of canonical texts in border studies dating from the mid to late 1990s and invites a dialogue with the smiling figure of Rabelais
Art · Art history · Foregrounding · Linguistics · Literature · Object (grammar · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · History · Law · Migration and Exile Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy
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After Calais”
Rethinking cross-border Euregionalism as self-organising system
Cross-Border Regions
Remembering Chris Rumford (1958–2016)
Russian – Norwegian Borderlands
Dilemma of modernity
Comentario. Minghi
Afterword
Between dependency and engagement
Monumentalising the Border
Global Borders
Spatial Imaginaries of the Dutch-German-Belgian Borderlands
Among Empires
The institutionalization of regions
Power of Place
Thirdspace
Territories, boundaries, and consciousness
Places on the Margin
Social Relations and Spatial Structures
Border Identities
Local Histories/Global Designs
Reimagining the Scalar Topologies of Cross-border Governance
The lines that continue to separate us
Radical Geography and its Critical Standpoints
Borders, Border Regions and Territoriality
Deconstructing Regions
Querying Cosmopolis at the Borders of Europe
Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world
Place as Historically Contingent Process
Magical Marxism
Der Rhein
Space, Politics, and the Political
Culture and Imperialism
Theorizing Borders
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.94 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |