当代全球化背景下的边界和边界景观

Borders and borderscapes under contemporary globalization

随着社会的变化,相关研究的范式往往也会发生改变。本文对边界研究中概念的变化作出了解释。在边界仍然具有重要作用的今天,我们需要重新审视这些概念在不断变化的历史、政治和社会背景下体现出来的时空变化性和不确定性。本文强调了边界不仅是国家主权的分界线,还具有从地缘政治,到边界和跨边界的社会实践和文化生产的多层次复杂性。本文力求对边界研究中的相关争论作出建设性贡献,以促进对边界的过程化、去领域、分散性的本质,及其在全球化和跨国流动时期保证政权的作用的充分理解,展现边界研究作为一个跨学科的领域,仍具有自身内涵的学术地位。本文以边界景观的概念为核心组织元素,提倡在边界研究中采取相关的研究方法,从互补的视角考虑政治愿景与日常社会文化实践之间、社会表现和艺术想象之间的相互作用。

Recognising the close interrelationships between social change and paradigm shifts, this paper contributes to an interpretation of conceptual change in the study of borders. While borders continue to have considerable relevance today, we need to revisit them in light of their constantly changing historical, political,and social contexts, grasping their shifting and undetermined nature in space and time. The paper underlines the multilevel complexity of borders-from the geopolitical to the level of social practice and cultural production at and across the border at different levels and, thus, not only along the dividing lines of nation-state sovereignties.It seeks to make a constructive contribution to debate within border studies by encouraging a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialised, and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalisation and transnational flows, as well as showcasing border research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic standing. Adopting the borders capes concept as a central organising element, this article advocates for a relational approach to borders which takes into account complementary perspectives that consider the interaction between political visions and everyday sociocultural practices, as well as social representations and artistic imaginaries.