Published: 2007-11-27
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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
The paper explores the concept of borderlands with respect to current developments in European societies; especially in the context of the recent enlargement of the EU. It examines the changing nature of borders with a view towards offering an assessment of the notion of a post-western Europe. The thesis advanced in the paper is that Europe is taking not just a post-national form; but is also taking a post-western shape and this latter dimension may be more significant. An important aspect of this is changing relations of peripheries to the core. The aim of the paper is to offer a new assessment of the periphery which can be seen as a zone of re-bordering. In the periphery the relation between the inside and the outside is complex and ambivalent; while often taking exclusionary forms; this is a relation that can also be viewed as the site of cosmopolitan forms of negotiation.
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