Geographies of borders and bordering

Anssi Paasi

Chapter 3 in Border Studies, 2025, pp 47-67 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the relations between geography and borders/bordering by conceptualizing ‘geography’ from three viewpoints. The first is the ‘real-world’ geography of borders and bordering, the second, the academic discipline geography, and the third the concepts of border mobilized by geographers. The real-world geography of borders has been for geographers primarily the ‘grid’ consisting of sovereign territorial states. In academia political geographers have focused primarily on state borders. For cultural geographers, border is a flexible category related to identity, culture, gender, or sexuality. For regional geographers, border has been a device in recognizing regions and regional identities. After examining the roots and key definitions of borders in geography, this chapter traces the progress of border studies in the form of phases/layers where these three geographies come together. Geographical border studies and its concepts have expanded since the 1990s echoing globalization, the advance of border management technologies and the mounting border-crossings of people.

Keywords: Border; Bordering; Political geography; Interdisciplinarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800375383
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