Centre for the Study of Regional Development,
School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Invites you all to a Student Workshop on
Borders: A Laboratory for Change
by
Prof. Jussi P. Laine
(Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland )
Date : October 11, 2023 (Wednesday)
Time : 11.00 AM
Venue: Carto Lab, CSRD, SSS III (Ist Floor)
Abstract: Borderlands around the globe have been undergoing considerable transitions due to the ever-escalating trend of tightening control at state borders. Recent debates about the "refugee crisis", the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and war have increasingly politicized borders and the practices that cross them. At the same time, our borderless world has become more bordered than ever before. Borders are increasingly everywhere, but at the same time nowhere. The role of borders as meeting places has been overshadowed by geopolitics and national ideologies, but may suddenly rise to a completely new value in the re-creation of relationships in a changed world situation. At the border and border spaces, national narratives and counter-narratives about the "state" and "nation" are constantly tested and re-evaluated in the light of different manifestations of transborder phenomena. This presentation puts borders forwards as laboratories of broader political and social change, which can often be found in borderlands earlier and in sharper relief. The border approach provides new understanding regarding the significance of geopolitical environment, political contestation, and values in fostering resilience.