Fringe Regionalism When Peripheries Become Regions
This book introduces the novel concept of fringe regionalism to the field of international studies. It examines how regions are practiced by peripheral borderlands rather than centrally planned, thus offering new avenues for researching regionalism beyond
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Fringe Regionalism
Frank Mattheis • Luca Raineri Alessandra Russo
Fringe Regionalism When Peripheries Become Regions
Frank Mattheis Institut d’études européennes Université libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium
Luca Raineri Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies Pisa, Italy
Alessandra Russo Centre Emile Durkheim Sciences Po Bordeaux Bordeaux, France
ISBN 978-3-319-97408-8 ISBN 978-3-319-97409-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97409-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018951535 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Pour Gaia – F.M.
Preface
Peripheries and borderlands might sometimes be difficult to access, especially when located in deserts, mountain ranges or forests. Nonetheless, they are not devoid of cross-border activities and identities. Once we began to delve into what happens at the margins of the political maps that are so carefully drawn and celebrated by nation states, we quickly discovered quite the opposite. Over the past years, our respective doctoral and postdoctoral fieldwork had brought us to the Sahara, the Caucasus, the Congo Basin and the borderlands around the Iguazu waterfalls. We found places where people are actively constructing transnational regions, either in opposition or in complicity with state actors. Not only did the formal interstate regional organisations not have a monopoly over how a region should look and operate; in the peripheries, regional space was apparently shaped by a very different set of dynamics and actors. Two of us (Luca Raineri and Alessandra Russo) had already uncovered striking similarities in our work and were looking for way
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