Au cours de la pandémie COVID-19, les frontières ont (re)pris de l'importance dans l'action politique et dans la vie quotidienne en très peu de temps. C'était particulièrement vrai pour les habitants des régions frontalières, dont le quotidien transfrontalier était soudainement irrité par la fermeture des frontières et les contrôles de police. Toutefois, la pandémie de COVID-19 a également entraîné une perception accrue des frontières sociales, culturelles, économiques, sanitaires et de mobilité au-delà des frontières nationales.
In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, borders have become relevant (again) in political action and in people's everyday lives within a very short time. This was especially true for the inhabitants of border regions, whose cross-border life worlds were suddenly irritated by closed borders and police controls. However, the COVID-19 pandemic also led to an increased evidence of social, cultural, eco-nomic, health and mobility boundaries beyond national borders.
The authors of this new issue of “UniGR-CBS Borders in Perspective” shed light on these dynamics from the perspective of territorial borders, social boundaries and (dis)continuities in border regions through a variety of thematic and spatial approaches. Their critical observations and scientific comments were made during the lockdown in April and May 2020 and provide insights into the events during the global pandemic.
Bibliographic information and download:
Christian Wille and Rebekka Kanesu (Eds.) (2020): Bordering in Pandemic Times. Insights into the COVID-19 Lockdown. Borders in Perspective, Vol. 4, UniGR-Center for Border Studies, download
Contents
- Borders and COVID-19 (Christian Wille and Rebekka Kanesu)
- Border(ing)s in Times of COVID-19 (Christian Wille)
- Marché du travail transfrontalier : négocier avec les frontières à l’heure de la crise sanitaire COVID-19 (Isabelle Pigeron-Piroth, Estelle Evrard et Rachid Belkacem)
- Fermeture des frontières nationales : récits en territoire transfrontalier (Beate Caesar, Nicolas Dorkel, Sylvain Marbehant, Hélène Rouchet et Greta Szendrei)
- Das Coronavirus und die Erosion von Gewissheiten (Florian Weber)
- La frontière franco-allemande au temps du COVID-19 : la fin d’un espace commun ? (Frédérique Berrod, Birte Wassenberg et Morgane Chovet)
- What has happened to our cross-border regions? Corona, Unfamiliarity and transnational borderlander activism in the Danish-German border region (Martin Klatt)
- The closure of the border as a b-solution. Non-coordination of measures at the Dutch, Belgian and German border (Martin Unfried)
- Chronicles of the Living Borders: shared urban space of Goricia (IT) and Nova Gorica (SLO) (Svetlana Buko)
- COVID-19 in the borderland of San Diego and Tijuana: between re-bordering processes and contradictory realities (Albert Roßmeier)
- La frontière « nationale » brouillée par le COVID-19 (Grégory Hamez, Frédérique Morel-Doridat, Kheira Oudina, Marine Le Calvez, Mathias Boquet, Nicolas Dorkel, Nicolas Greiner et Sabrina de Pindray d’Ambelle)
- Corona – neue Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für Grenzraumpolitiken und grenzüberschreitende Governance (Nora Crossey)
- Einseitige Mehrsprachigkeit an der geschlossenen Grenze im Saar-Lor-Lux-Raum (Philipp Krämer)
- Linguistic rebordering: Constructing COVID-19 as an external threat (Eva Nossem)
- Reflections on a Boundless Critter in a Bordered World (Rebekka Kanesu)
- Those who are confined, are also the most mobile! (Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary)
- "What’s Home Gotta Do With It?" Reflections on Homing, Bordering, and Social Distancing in COVID-19 Times (Astrid M. Fellner)
- Geflüchtetenunterkünfte und Lager als Grenzparadigma: Lebenswirklichkeiten in Zeiten der Corona-Pandemie (Claudia Böhme und Anett Schmitz)
- Coronavirus, Social Boundaries and Food Security: Observations in Jamaica (Lisa Johnson)
Contact: Christian Wille, University of Luxembourg, christian.wille@uni.lu; Rebekka Kanesu, Trier University, kanesu@uni-trier.de