Territorial borders as state practice

The project at a glance

Start date:

01 Jan 2017
Duration in months:

48
Funding:

University of Luxembourg, PhD funding
Principal Investigator(s):

Christian WILLE

About

Recently, questions of territorial borders have been increasingly brought into the focus of social sciences. Despite the existence of practice-oriented studies of borders, sociological theories of practice have not been entirely taken into account regarding their potential for a process-oriented perspective on borders. The PhD project provides an interface between border studies and sociology and aims to show how border studies can be profitably associated with sociological theories of practice. To this end, a practical theoretical research perspective for the study of borders will be developed and illustrated using the exemplary field of investigation of political cross-border cooperation practices in Europe. The PhD project contributes to a sociology of the border by making the knowledge of border studies fruitful for a sociological perspective. Conversely, it provides border studies with a research perspective and framework adapted to the research on border practices. Image caption: © Denise Rodrigues Marafona

Project team

Christian WILLE, PI
Ulla Connor, Project member, Nachwuchskolleg Europa am CEUS – Cluster für Europaforschung der Universität des Saarlandes (external)