In Pursuit of a Good Life: Understanding Spatial Mobility After Border Changes – the Cases of Crimea and the India-Bangladesh Enclaves

Chao Jiang and Martin van der Velde

Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2025, vol. 40, issue 2, 279-299

Abstract: This paper aims to theorize and illustrate the geographic movements after border changes in sensitive spaces. This research casts sensitive spaces and stresses the pursuit of a good life building on geographical imagination as the primary purpose of spatial mobility. This paper goes beyond the prevailing idea of geographical imagination that supposes a mental-material binary and offers a ternary approach to geographical imagination, arguing for a social-mental-material triad. This research states that following border changes in sensitive spaces, spatial mobility and immobility can be better understood through this geographical imagination ternary approach: to go or to stay are local people’s workable choices for an imagined good life. A cross-case analysis of Crimea and the India-Bangladesh enclaves confirms the validity of the good life perspective.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2024.2307604

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