Negociando el “giro espacial” de la gobernanza transfronteriza en Europa: notas de una agenda de investigación
O.T. Kramsch
Acknowledging the slippery nature of term “governance”, paper begins by canvassing a “first-wave” academic reflection on governance European cross-border regions, emergent in early to mid-1990s amid EU-phoric plethora institutional innovations designed create “laboratories integration” within and across internal borders formerly dividing member states. The then excavates limitations this theoretical sediment, arguing that drawing literatures rooted public administration political science, properly spatial dimension has been muted, if not rendered invisible. seeks address shortcoming focusing insights offered up “spatial turn” geography wider social sciences as they relate increasingly visible problematic transboundary evident at time. Through conceptual frame author argues for normative well specificity regional spatiality, one which foregrounds fact that, rather than merely epiphenomenal or derivative state space, regions (or, euregios) today are themselves important sites where very meaning “the political” is being negotiated, contested, resisted transformed. suggests way forward analysis Europe’s will demand breaking beyond several key assumptions mainstream border studies literature, notably now mantra-like insistence involving primarily identitarian distinctions between “Us Them”, and, concomitantly with outlook, an understanding idiographically unique appendages territoriality. In contradistinction these hegemonic assumptions, postcolonial, “contrapuntal” research agenda posed, actively counter logic reducing “difference” “Same” renewed comparative perspectivalism.
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