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FINANCIAL EARTHQUAKES
One central issue affecting Europe and its relative location in the world at the time of this writing
is the financial crisis in the Eurozone. Discussions about what caused the crisis center around who
to blame—countries, institutions, systems, mentalities, “cultures”—and what went wrong with the
previous structural arrangements. Anthropology has both tracked this debate (Hart 2012, Hart
& Ortiz 2008) and contributed to analyses of its causes, including the suggestions that the crisis
is due to the toxic blending of neoliberalism and the postmodern turn (Graeber 2011) as well as
strange combinations of structural and cultural conditions that led to apparently illogical decisions
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made at the highest levels of financial institutions (Ho 2009; Ouroussoff 2010; Tett 2009a,b). Hart
also argues that more long-term changes in monetary relations, combined with developments in
communications technologies, have been reshaping social and political relations across the globe
for a long time and that it was only for a relatively short period that currencies supported national
and state boundaries anyway (Hart 2000, 2009; see also Gregory 1997, for another perspective on
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the same issue of what happens when states lose control over the value of their currencies).
Hart does not dwell on the border-altering implications of his argument, though he does refer
to it in passing in his discussion of the current euro crisis: “The tragedy of the euro,” he says, “is that
it arrived when money had already broken up into multiple forms and functions. The Europeans
hoped for political union as a result of centralising their currency. The present economic crisis has
shown how mistaken this aspiration was” (Hart 2012, p. 632). In short, Hart argues that changes
in the way money works had already disconnected money from any capacity to help build certain
kinds of political borders even before the euro was introduced.
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in fact, suggests that “Europe is the continent where international boundaries have had the most
tortured history” (p. 563). I too have argued that trying to establish any fixed location or meaning
of “Europe” is unlikely to produce a coherent answer (Green 2012a, pp. 286–87).
Part of the tortured history to which Nugent refers involves the colonial activities of many
European states, traces of which are still visible in contemporary maps of European territories. The
Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, Guadeloupe, Réunion in the Indian Ocean, Martinique, and
French Guiana are all currently part of the EU owing to their associations with Portugal, Spain,
and France; and several British, French, and Dutch territories have some level of rights in, or
associations with, the EU. Although Abélès (2000) suggests that people working in the European
Commission ignore history, behaving as if they are “driving without a rear-view mirror” (p. 32),
the maps of EU territories are nevertheless scribbled with the traces of these histories, visibly
challenging that distaste for looking back.
Wikipedia provides a fascinating, if difficult to decipher, account of the multiple historical traces
in relations among places in a regularly updated summary of ten different levels of being “in” and
“out” of the EU and names all the countries and territories that have some association with the
EU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territories_and_the_European_
Union#Summary). This table graphically demonstrates that the question of where the borders of
Europe may be located is not a simple matter of locating the boundaries, the edges, of somewhere;
rather, it requires an understanding of both past and current relations among places (which could
be called “relative location”); an understanding of the classification system used to establish what
is to be included and excluded; and an understanding of the regional practices that either reinforce
or challenge the EU’s formal intended relationships among its various bits and parts.
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find studies of border communities and explorations of the concept of European borders from
within cultural studies (e.g., Armbruster et al. 2003, Eder 2006, Robinson 2007) and from sociology
(e.g., Buckel & Wissel 2010; Delanty & Rumford 2005, Rumford 2006a, O’Dowd 2002); studies of
border dynamics from within human geography (e.g., Lunden 2006, Scott & van Houtum 2009);
and commentaries from philosophers about the shifting meaning of borders (e.g., Balibar 1998).
Anthropology has contributed its share, focusing mostly on ethnographic studies of border regions
and people living with border conflicts (e.g., Bray 2005, Donnan & Wilson 2003, Myrivili 2004,
Wilson & Donnan 2005). This work has played an important part in the development of border
studies within anthropology in recent years, considerably extending the pioneering work done
in the regions surrounding the US–Mexico border (Alvarez 1995, Anzaldúa 1987). Whereas the
US–Mexican borderlands studies focused particularly on migration and other forms of crossing
the border, Donnan & Wilson (1994) led the field in studying issues such as nationalism and other
elements of state involvement in the establishment of identities. What has significantly changed in
more recent years is an additional focus on the borders themselves as borders. More specifically,
this discussion has involved an interest in the diverse ways political borders become involved in
reclassifying the spaces they demarcate and not only in classifying the people.
The more recent shift of focus within studies involving European borders is also reflected in
Alvarez’s position, which changed since he wrote his Annual Review of Anthropology piece in 1995
about the US–Mexican border and the making of “borderland studies” in anthropology (Alvarez
1995). In 1995, Alvarez argued that borders are sites where cultural differences meet and where
political assertions of the cultural homogeneity of each side are inevitably challenged. Around
borders, Alvarez suggested, “We need to examine paradox, conflict, contradiction, and contrasts”
(p. 462). Borderlands provided an opportunity to take a poke at the idea of cultures as somehow
fixed, self-contained, and self-referential entities. Borderlands, and especially the migrants who
pass through them, demonstrated the flaws in this idea. Alvarez’s article implied that all political
borders are inherently challenging in this way, simply by being places where differences that are
normally kept separate actually meet and are crossed.
By 1999, Alvarez had concluded that the US–Mexican border could no longer be used as a
template for border studies across the world because of the rapidly changing, and highly diverse,
conditions existing in border regions elsewhere, particularly in Europe and South Africa (p. 225).
By 2012, he suggested that an understanding of what constitutes a border in the first place needs
more careful attention. He pointed to the relative neglect of maritime borders within border studies
(possibly as a result of the earlier focus on the US–Mexican border, which is a land border) and
again noted that the diversity of borders around the world and the rapidity with which borders have
changed demands more of a focus on the meaning of borders as such (p. 550). I have suggested
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much the same thing (Green 2010). And outside anthropology, Balibar (1998) made a similar
suggestion: “We are living in a conjuncture of the vacillation of borders . . . that is at the same time
a vacillation of the very notion of border, which has become particularly equivocal” (p. 216).
Two elements are noted here. First, changes in borders not only alter people’s relations with
a place, but also redefine the actual places that borders mark, draw together, and separate. And
second, researchers on borders have been increasingly interested in the historical variability of
the form and purpose of borders. Thus the focus has shifted more to how places, locations, and
spatial relations are being reclassified as border regimes change; in a sense, research has turned
more toward shifts in the ground underneath everyone’s feet.
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This is a significant intellectual development. Until recently, border studies research focused
strongly on the relationship between borders and people’s identities. This work studied either the
effects of people moving across borders or the way state borders often carried a powerful ideological
load that identified the people included and excluded by those borders. There has been a wealth
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of literature on these topics. Examples include work discussing questions of nationalism (e.g.,
Assmuth 2003, Brown 2003, Donnan & Wilson 1999, Galasinska 2006, Nikiforova 2005, Wilson
& Donnan 1998), ethnicity and gender (e.g., Assmuth 2005, Banerjee 2010, Donnan 2005, Hart
1999, Kaiser & Nikiforova 2006, Kisielowska-Lipman 2002, Nitsiakos 2010, Pelkmans 2006,
Rösler & Wendl 1999), and the hybrid and shifting identities of borderland populations (e.g.,
Anzaldúa 1987, Ballinger 2003, Danforth 1995, Douglass 1998, Green 2005, Helms 2008, Zartman
2010). Studies on different forms of crossing have been equally diverse, ranging from studies of
migration (e.g., Douglass 1984, Grillo & Pratt 2002, Jordan & Duvell 2002), to trafficking (e.g.,
Andrijasevic 2007), gendered migration (Anthias & Lazaridis 2000, Antoun 2009), diaspora (e.g.,
Brah 1997), refugees (e.g., Capo 2007, Malkki 1992, Malkki 1995), and racism (e.g., Cole 1997),
among others. In all these studies, the focus has been on forms of engagement between people
and border regimes; the borders themselves, as borders, tended to be left unexamined. This is the
additional issue that has been explored more recently, particularly by those working on European
border dynamics (e.g., Bechev & Nicolaidis 2010, Green 2012b, van Houtum et al. 2005). The
sense that changes in border regimes also involve reclassifying the spaces that they demarcate
recasts borders as knowledge practices. Borrowing a concept from Mackenzie (2006), this implies
that borders could be both an engine (creating the places that they mark) and a camera (reflecting
the character of those places). In either case, exploring how this works in practice, and especially
the study of changes in border regimes across time, allows researchers to analyze the ongoing,
power-inflected remaking of the spatial worlds (including the relations and separations between
its bits and parts) in which people, animals, and things live, move, and interact.
Pyrenees]. And Cole & Wolf (1999 [1973]), in one of the founding texts that established border
studies in Europe, argued that the historical traces of the relations and divisions between German
and Italian political regimes in the past could still be discerned in the social, political, and even
farming practices of the people of two neighboring towns located in the South Tyrol area of Italy:
the German-speaking town of St. Felix and the Italian-speaking town of Tret.
By focusing so strongly on shifting historical and political conditions and combining them with
social and ecological conditions, these two studies echo elements in recent research that focuses
more directly on the way borders are made, remade, and unmade. Although they still centrally
focused on identity as the key reason to be interested in borders, these authors’ work was prescient
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of more recent developments. Both argued, as Donnan & Wilson did after them, that the wider
political context and people’s social identities were historically changing and mutually constitutive;
but their focus on shifts in borders and ecology led them to also include a reclassification of place
as part of their analysis.
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BORDERS AS TECHNIQUE
Once attention turned toward borders themselves, some researchers rapidly began to redefine
borders as an ongoing project, an activity, and a process, rather than as an entity or object.
Borders regarded as objects, whether symbolic or material, are imagined as having thing-like
qualities and are most often understood as mental or physical barriers or bridges. The borders-as-
process approach argues instead that borders are, in effect, a technique: bordering, or the process
of classifying and ordering space and relations between here and elsewhere in the world (van
Houtum et al. 2005). Ethnographic studies taking that kind of approach regularly include rich
historical research. Such studies include Ballinger’s work on cross-border relations in the Julian
March area in Istria, a border region between Italy, Croatia, and Slovenia (Ballinger 2003), as
well as Berdahl’s (1999) work, through her study of Kella, a former East German town, on the
reunification of Germany. Berdahl (1999) argues that sometimes borders often feel like “places
of intense and inflexible lucidity” (p. 8), which starkly contrasts with the more frequent argument
that borderlands are places of fluidity, hybridity, and transgression. Berdahl was speaking of a
border that had been tightly controlled, both physically and symbolically, during the period of
the Cold War. Others studying similar borders have noted much the same point: Sometimes
borderlands and the residents who live near them are highly effective in both maintaining and
helping to generate the separations that they mark (e.g., Pelkmans 2006; Donnan 2005, 2010). In
those circumstances, when political conditions change and border controls are suddenly relaxed,
the effect can be shocking, almost as if the landscape has been literally rearranged. This effect has
been noted in Pelkmans’s (2006) work on the Turkish-Georgian border and in my own work on
the Greek-Albanian border (Green 2005). These kinds of studies point to the need to think a little
more carefully about how borders come to take on certain forms and about the resulting effects.
During the 2000s, analysis of borders as process and technique, particularly European borders,
rapidly developed, and this spatial turn drew anthropology’s attention to the work of political
geographers. Examples include the work of Rumford, Paasi, Scott, and Hassner on EU border
experiments (Hassner 2002; Paasi 2011; Rumford 2006a,b, 2007; Scott 2006), as well as work by
van Houtum and others, which considered the hierarchical ordering of space that border regimes
generate from a political geography perspective (Scott & van Houtum 2009, van Houtum 2012,
van Houtum & van Naerssen 2002).
This shift of emphasis toward what counts as “here” and what counts as “somewhere else” has
considerably widened the possible objects and subjects analyzed by border studies anthropologists:
Once scholars regard bordering as a technique that classifies and reclassifies both places and persons
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and their relations, the next logical step is to extend that thought to other entities, such as financial
instruments. The financial and fiscal crisis in Europe at the time of this writing has, among many
other things, centrally concerned a rearrangement of the relations between regions and places
and between the EU and elsewhere. These rearrangements can be regarded as border techniques,
processes that alter the meaning, value, moral status of, and relations between, here and elsewhere.
The phrase borrows from Mauss’s (1973) essay on “Techniques of the Body,” which outlined the
idea that the shape and form of bodies are molded by socially learned techniques that vary across
space and time.
This change in emphasis can be seen in many other recent ethnographies charting changes
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within the European region. These include studies of the way people are strategically selecting to
which part of Europe to “belong” (Assmuth 2005); research on the way both people and places
are variously “emplaced” and “displaced” (Ballinger 2003, 2012; Bray 2011; Jansen & Löfving
2009); studies on the interplay between location and identity in conflicts between peoples (Candea
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2006, Demetriou 2007); research on how particular infrastructures and things in the landscape
alter the relations between here and elsewhere (Dalakoglou 2010, Donnan 2005, 2010, Papadakis
2005); and studies of the affective power that spatial rearrangements can generate (Navaro-Yashin
2012). Much of this research describes how the making and defining of borders in the European
region, which now also entail the performative classification of space and spatial relations, are not
something that the authorities who create political borders have ever entirely controlled. Studies
of people living near borders that suddenly change (Berdahl 1999, Borneman 1992, Green 1998,
Pelkmans 2006, Theodosiou 2003) or those who cross them without the correct documentation
(Khosravi 2009, Navaro-Yashin 2003, Navaro-Yashin 2007) and studies of those who use creative
means to generate diverse forms of relations and separations between one place and another
(Cowan 2000, Demetriou 2007, Reeves 2007) all examine the interplay between people’s everyday
lives and the making, marking, and altering of borders in one way or another.
of the Balkans as a place that was neither the self nor the other, but a bit of both (Todorova
1997); and ethnographers such as Helms looked at the parodies and gendered interplay involved
in reclassifying the difference between here and elsewhere in the Balkan region (Helms 2008).
These relatively recent debates are different from the earlier critiques of orientalism presented
by scholars whose research predated the conflicts in former Yugoslavia (e.g., Abu-Lughod 1989,
Chakrabarty 1992, Herzfeld 1987, Said 1991, Wolf 1982, Wolff 1994). The earlier studies demon-
strated that a strong, ideologically inflected orientalist rhetoric had been generated within Europe
and was used to construct an understanding of Europe as a particular kind of historical, moral,
and philosophical entity that was separate from this imagined Orient. This earlier literature de-
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scribed how the internal debate within the Western side of this West-East division resulted in deep
stereotypes for those who were on the other side of the self-other coin. The conflicts in former Yu-
goslavia highlighted the implicit spatial mapping of these ideologically constructed divisions: One
part of the ideological map represented (occidental) Europe, and this region was neatly separated
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from the other part, which represented the (oriental) other place (Pickles 2004, pp. 73, 123). The
breakup of former Yugoslavia demonstrated that this assumption was perhaps more the result of
a bordering technique than it was a reflection of clearly identifiable spatial divisions between one
place and another. The importance of this point is not simply that an asserted dichotomy has once
again been shown to be an idea rather than a reflection of a social reality; it also highlights the way
such dichotomies crucially rely on asserted spatial divisions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, researchers
working in former Yugoslavia have focused particular attention on this issue. Jansen & Löfving
(2009) summarize their view of the importance of the spatial element in understanding the changes
occurring in the region: “[R]ather than propagating a free-floating placeless paradigm, we empha-
size the need to critically investigate the unequal, differential and contested processes by which
persons come to be (dis)associated—and (dis)associate themselves—with or from a place” (p. 6).
Overall, then, the key issues that have occupied the attention of anthropologists studying border
dynamics in the European region more recently relate to questions of relocation in the relations
between places, people, ideas, and ideologies, which has included the relocation and reclassification
of places, as well as people. And as implied by the discussion so far, the key areas of this focus
have been the EU’s bordering activities; the implications of postsocialism for the realignment of
the European region’s internal and external relations; and the reemergence of the idea of “the
Balkans” following the end of the Cold War. The final section of this article briefly summarizes
some of the key issues that have arisen in each of these areas.
EUROPEAN UNION
Wilson (2012) recently argued that “the EU represents what is perhaps the greatest experiment in
postnational and supranational polity building in the world today, and the greatest reconfiguration
in political space since the days of the British Empire” (p. 169). This experiment has inevitably
attracted considerable anthropological attention. Some of the most notable areas studied are
research on the ideological and bureaucratic workings of the EU, including analysis of the idea of
Europe underlying these practices (e.g., Bellier & Wilson 2000; Borneman & Fowler 1997; Kohli
2000; McDonald 1996, 2005); the effects of EU policies in practice, including the unintended
consequences, and studies of particular border regions affected by the EU’s various debordering
and rebordering projects (e.g., Andrijasevic 2007, Bacas 2005, Bacas & Kavanagh 2013, Goddard
et al. 1994). In earlier years, particular attention was directed toward the political philosophy
behind ideas such as subsidiarity and “integralism” (Holmes 2000a,b; Shore 1993, 2000). Holmes
and Shore, though from different positions, argued that the EU was being developed by a particular
political elite within the region. Holmes proposed that evidence of the type of elite involved was
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reflected in the policies of the EU as an institution and in the EU’s promotion of neoliberal forms
of capitalism; and Shore proposed that it involved the ideals of a certain sector of the continental
bourgeoisie. Both authors imply that the attempt to centralize power and remove internal borders
between EU member states involved a relatively unspoken ulterior motive that would benefit some
powerful interests against others—mostly economic interests in the case of Holmes and political
interests in the case of Shore.
In more recent years, more attention has been given to particular aspects of EU bordering
policies, such as the European Neighbourhood Policy (e.g., Del Sarto 2010, Green 2012a, Kølvraa
2012, Liikanen & Virtanen 2006, Smith 2005), maritime border policies (Bacas 2005, Scott 2002),
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and regionalism as a policy (Leontidou 2004, Scott 2006, Seguy 1998, Wilson 2012, Wilson &
Donnan 2005). Wilson suggests that the EU’s tendency to promote the concept of European
“regions” as a means to counteract the bordering techniques of individual states has resulted in a
proliferation of new borders rather than a reduction in them (Wilson 2012, p. 174).
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It is currently too early to summarize research on the border-altering effects of the financial and
fiscal crisis because the crisis is still ongoing. However, a couple of preliminary points can be made.
The first is to note how quickly much of the media reconfigured the divisions in the European re-
gion from an emphasis on West-East differences (both of the postsocialist and orientalist varieties)
to an emphasis on North-South differences. As Borneman & Fowler (1997), Herzfeld (1987), and
others have noted, both sets of hierarchically ordered divisions have existed for a long time in the
European region. Indeed, these ideologically informed compass points appear to behave fractally
so that what happens at the European level as a whole is often imagined to be replicated at a much
smaller level. Schneider’s (1998) edited collection, Italy’s ‘Southern’ Question: Orientalism in One
Country, is an example of that process: The relationship between northern Europe and southern
Europe is replicated in the relationship between northern Italy and southern Italy. Nevertheless,
whereas rhetoric concerning the East-West axis has dominated in recent decades, the financial
crisis appears to have brought about a switch in orientation toward the North-South axis. Such
labels are of course partially deceiving because this shift in orientation inevitably also involves
a reclassification of the meaning of those relative locations (nothing is ever exactly replicated).
Second, the crisis appears to have accelerated debates about the possibility of political territories
breaking apart. This speculation includes not only the possibility that some current members of
the EU will leave (Greece and Britain, for different reasons, are the two EU member states most
often mentioned in that context), but also the possibility that parts of some states will break apart
(e.g., Scotland and Catalonia breaking away from Britain and Spain respectively). The debate itself
appears to be shifting the relative location of these places in rhetorical terms, irrespective of the
eventual outcome of the debates.
east highly emphasized the division between the two sides, whereas the map produced by the
west hardly marked the division at all. Borneman spends some time in the book examining the
complexities of the politically inflected spatial geometry of the city.
For the most part, however, ethnographies from the Cold War period do not dwell on the
spatial aspects of the way Europe had been politically divided into two halves. Perhaps the highly
visible and daily performance of the difference between the two sides in terms of border regulation
was so obvious to everyone that it was not worth studying. Certainly, the fact that it was so difficult
to cross many of those borders (with the very notable exception of the Yugoslav border during
the period of Tito) meant that almost all research was literally one-sided. Or perhaps the lack of
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interest in borders in themselves during this period led investigators to neglect studying the spatial
effects of border regimes, even where they were obviously dividing the whole European region
and thus shaping what it was literally possible to see of that region. The fact that the more recent
turn toward trying to think about borders in themselves came after the advent of the EU, the end
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of the Cold War, and the subsequent war in former Yugoslavia at the very least mildly implies that
the previous border regimes were assumed to be “forever until they were no more,” to borrow an
excellent book title from Yurchak’s (2006) ethnography of the postsocialist transition in Russia: the
Cold War borders were part of the landscape; few expect landscapes to be completely rearranged.
Once the Cold War ended, all of these assumptions began to unravel. The previously strongly
promoted ideals of the difference between West and East began to look like ideologically inflected
rhetoric from both sides of the former divide. Previously, critiques of each side came mostly
from the perspective of the other side; now, accounts from both sides appeared equally partial.
Berdahl and colleagues’ (2000) Altering States as well as Yurchak’s (2006) post-Cold War studies
both amply describe how this earlier blind spot worked. Although the ideological rhetoric of each
side produced accounts of the other side as “the opposite” in moral and ideological terms, in
practice, the rhetoric of both sides had more in common than it had differences. Such research has
highlighted the great lengths to which political regimes on both sides went to make the border
appear to mark opposites rather than variations of the same thing.
Some critics suggested that postsocialist ethnographies being written by authors from the
western side were simply reproducing the now removed border in their interpretations (Kürti
2000), and some responded by generating collections carried out by scholars based on the eastern
side (e.g., Kürti & Skalnı́k 2009). Others began piecing together the heterotopic (Foucault 1986)
qualities of the border regimes that had existed previously: studies of the way the Cold War borders
had, on all sides, generated mirror-like spaces created out of looking at the other side. Both in
detailed descriptions of particular experiences in different areas (Assmuth 2005, Galasinska 2006,
Green 1997, Hann 2002, Nikiforova 2003, Nitsiakos 2010) and in more lengthy analyses of these
issues (Borneman 1997; Humphrey 1998, 2003, 2004; Ssorin-Chaikov 2003; Verdery 1996b), the
research demonstrates a shift toward questioning the previous intellectual, as well as geopolitical,
divisions that had existed in the past.
CONTESTED BORDERS
More recent research particularly around borders that are openly contested or involve the after-
math of conflict attracted the attention of researchers interested in border techniques. Research in
former Yugoslavia focused in particular on the new forms of East-West questions arising out of the
country’s implosion, and some also considered the way many media commentators began to revisit
old assumptions about this part of the world. One example was the, until then, relatively untouched
myth that the Balkan region was a toxic powder keg of mutual ethnic hatreds liable to generate
world wars unless controlled (Todorova 1997). Studies of these questions pointed to the way border
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dynamics were shot through with ideological assumptions about Europe’s character, often backed
up with political power, that ended up being self-fulfilling prophecies (e.g., Bakić-Hayden & Bakić-
Hayden 1992, Capo 2007, Cowan 2000, Hayden 2000, Helms 2008, Irvine & Gal 2000, Karakasi-
dou 1997). Bringa (1995), in a study of Bosnians, barely disguised her irritation at the way such
assumptions had pervaded academic work: “[A]cademic barriers based on false assumptions about
what ‘Europe’ implies . . . need . . . to be dissolved. The only other alternative is either to define
people like the Bosnian Muslims as not European, or as European, but not really Muslim” (p. 7).
Research elsewhere, most notably in Cyprus (e.g., Dikomitis 2005, Navaro-Yashin 2012,
Papadakis 2005, Papadakis et al. 2006, Sant Cassia 2005), the Irish borderlands (e.g., Donnan
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2005, Donnan & Simpson 2007, Feldman 1991), and parts of the former socialist states (e.g.,
Verdery 1999), but also a variety of other contested peripheries such as Corsica (e.g., Candea
2010), has particularly drawn out the complex material and embodied aspects of border dynam-
ics: the way borders can be made and marked and intrude into people’s everyday lives. Here, in
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the realm of materiality, the interplay between border identities and people’s identities becomes
especially heterotopic. Verdery’s (1999) study of the reburial of the dead in many parts of former
socialist Europe and Sant Cassia’s (2005) research on the endless search for “the missing” from
the earlier conflicts in Cyprus illustrate the complex relationships among location, place, and em-
bodiment in these border dynamics. The process through which both places and people are often
literally relocated in the making of borders, also noted in studies of enforced movement of peoples
(Hirschon 2003), has highlighted the degree to which the making and marking of borders not only
occur at the edges of places, but also are scattered across both territories and written into bodies.
Clearly, much more is still to come from this emerging field of research, which is building
on the previous work that questioned the historically variable relationship between the entity
(border) that marks the difference between here and somewhere else and the techniques used to
achieve and maintain that difference. The process through which the idea of Europe as a spatial
entity has undergone several relocations in recent decades has turned out to be an important
element in that development.
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
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and focus of the text. I also thank the anonymous reviewers for their very insightful comments.
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Variable Models, David M. Blei • Statistics and Related Topics in Single-Molecule Biophysics,
• Structured Regularizers for High-Dimensional Problems: Hong Qian, S.C. Kou
Statistical and Computational Issues, Martin J. Wainwright • Statistics and Quantitative Risk Management for Banking
and Insurance, Paul Embrechts, Marius Hofert
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