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A N D ERS O N J. and O D OWD L. (1999) Borders, border regions and territoriality: contradictory meanings, changing
signi cance, Reg. Studies 33, 593 604. The meaning and signi cance of state borders, as well as their geographical location,
can change drastically over space and time. Along with their associated regions, they have competing and contradictory
meanings, both material and symbolic. Their particularities require localized study but also wider contextualization. As a general
response to peripherality, borders tend to generate questionable arbitrage activities, and their signi cance ultimately derives from
territoriality as a general organizing principle of political and social life, one which changes over time. Borders and border
regions are thus particularly revealing places for social research, especially in the present era of accelerated globalization, the end
of the `Cold War and the growth of supra-state regions such as the European Union (E U) and the North American Free
Trade Area (NAFTA). Much of the research literature suggests that bounded territorial units are declining in signi cance given
the increased ows of capital, commodities, information and people across state borders. The key claims of states to control
exit and entry and to monopolize the means of violence within xed borders seem to be under threat. Social and communal
boundaries are seen to be increasingly de-linked from territorial borders. Such propositions raise a series of questions concerning
how and to what extent state borders and border regions are being re-made, re-negotiated and managed or mismanaged. The
paper sketches this changing context for studies and comparisons of particular borders and border regions.
Borders Border regions Material and symbolic meanings Supra-state regions Territoriality Globalization
Arbitrage
A N D ERS O N J. et O D OWD L. (1999) Les frontieres, les A NDE RSO N J. und O D OWD L. (1999) Staatsgrenzen,
regions frontalieres et la notion de territoire: des signi cations Grenzgebiete und Raumbedarf des Individuums:
contradictoires et une importance en pleine evolution, Reg. widerspruchliche Bedeutungen, sich wandelnde Signi kanz,
Studies 33, 593 604. La signi cation et limportance des Reg. Studies 33, 593 604. Nicht nur der geographische
frontieres dEtat, aussi bien que leur situation geographique, Standort, sondern auch Bedeutung und Signi kanz staat-
peuvent evoluer sensiblement sur lespace et avec le temps. licher Grenzen ko nnen sich im Laufe der Zeit und des
Conjointement avec leurs regions annexes, les frontieres ont Raumes drastisch verandern. Materialistisch und symbolisch
des signi cations a la fois opposees et contradictoires, et gesehen kommen ihnen und den dazugehorigen Regionen
materielles et symboliques. Leurs particularites necessitent konkurrieren de und widerspruchliche Bedeutungen zu.
non seulement que lon les etudie sur le plan local, mais aussi Ihre Eigenheiten verlangen auf wenige Orte beschrankte
que lon les relativise a plus grande echelle. Pour re pondre Untersuchungen, aber auch Einordnung in gro ere Zusam-
de facon generale a la notion de peripherie, les frontieres ont menhange. In allgemeiner Erwiderung auf ihre Randlage
tendance a engendrer des activites darbitrage douteuses, et, entwickeln Grenzen vielfach fragwurdige Arbitrageaktivi-
au bout du compte, leur importance provient de la notion taten, und ihre Signi kanz leitet sich letzten Endes vom
de territoire comme un fondement de la vie politique et Raumbedarf des Individuums als allgemeinem Ordnungs-
sociale qui evolue avec le temps. Il sensuit que les frontieres prinzip politischen und sozialen Lebens ab, welches im
et les regions frontalieres sont revelatrices dans le domaine Laufe der Zeit Anderungen unterworfen wird. Grenzen und
de la recherche sociale, notamment a lheure de la mondialis- Grenzgebiete sind daher besonders aufschlu reiche Orte fur
ation, de la n de la guerre froide et de lessor des re gions die Sozialforschung, besonders im gegenwartigen Zeitalter
supranationales, telles lUnion europeenne (l Ue) et la zone beschleunigter Globalisierung, dem Ende des kalten Krieges
de libre-echange nord-americaine (la N AF TA). Une grande und dem Aufkommen Staaten ubergreifender Regionen wie
partie de la recherche laisse supposer que limportance des der Europaischen Union (EU) und der Nordamerikanischen
territoires bien delimites diminue, etant donne la vitesse Freihandelszone (NAF TA). In der Fachliteratur wird oft
plus rapide de la circulation transfrontaliere du capital, des davon gesprochen, da angesichts der Tatsache vermehrter,
marchandises, de linformation et des personnes. Il semble Staatsgrenzen uberschreitender Strome von Kapital, Waren,
que les pre tentions essentielles des Etats concernant le con- Information und Menschen die Signi kanz fest abgegrenzter
trole de lentree et de la sortie, et quant a la monopolisation Gebietseinheiten abnimmt. Die Hauptanspruche von
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