Mapping Schengenland. Denaturalizing the border (2002)

Zusammenfassung
In this paper I examine the reorganization of border controls associated with the Schengen process in the European Union and some of its close neighbours. Rather than asking the political science question of why states are committed to Schengen (or not, in the case of the United Kingdom
and Ireland), I interpret Schengen as a political moment for genealogical reflection and analysis. The purpose is to contribute to a more historicized understanding of borders. Schengen is analyzed in terms of three trajectories, each of which allows us to denaturalize certain key aspects of the border, such as its identity, function, rationality, and contingency. Schengen is theorized in relation to the
geopolitical border, the national border, and the biopolitical border. Other possibilities for genealogies of the border are also canvassed.

Quelle
Walters, William. 2002. Mapping Schengenland: Denaturalizing the Border. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20 (5): 561–580.

Volltext
https://www.academia.edu/2754215/Mapping_Schengenland_Denaturalizing_the_border [05.03.2024]