"No borders, no nations" or "fortress Europe"? : how European citizens remake European borders

2020
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dc.abstract.enThe notion of 'Fortress Europe' is a political battle cry employed and acted out by political groups from across the ideological spectrum in contemporary Europe. Under this slogan, Western European extreme-right groups travel to Bulgaria to participate in local citizens' militias that hunt down immigrants. Others send ships to the Mediterranean that push refugees’ boats back to the shores of North Africa. In turn, left-wing activists use the notion of Fortress Europe to denounce the EU's border policies. Their campaigns advertise the construction of a bridge over the Mediterranean, or public funerals for refugees who have died on their journey to Europe. Taking account of the increasing involvement of European citizens in the processes of giving meaning to the notion of Fortress Europe, this study examines how civil society groups (de-)construct European external borders in discourse and action. It regards European borders not as naturally given demarcations, but, in line with Brambilla's (2015) notion of "borderscapes", recognizes their spatial and conceptual complexity as socially constructed and contested spaces. Employing the toolkit of critical discourse analysis, the study uncovers the discursive strategies that an exemplary selection of right-wing and left-wing civil society groups use to establish the metaphor of Fortress Europe as significant for the EU. Furthermore, it uses the theoretical lens of "acts of citizenship" (Isin & Nielsen, 2008) to analyze how the political activists constitute themselves and others as rights claiming subjects through creative and self-organized action. The proposed paper is based on a truly interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon various strands of thought such as citizenship studies, critical border studies, critical discourse studies and critical metaphor theory. The theoretical integration of these rather novel approaches to European Studies, achieved by employing a constructivist approach to the concept of the border and citizenship, constitutes the added value of this work.pl
dc.affiliationWydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych : Instytut Europeistykipl
dc.contributor.authorVolk, Sabine - 400013 pl
dc.contributor.editorde Jong, Jannypl
dc.contributor.editorNeuman, Marekpl
dc.contributor.editorNeuman Stanivukovic, Senkapl
dc.contributor.editorvan der Waal, Margrietpl
dc.date.accession2020-05-11pl
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-14T16:59:38Z
dc.date.available2020-05-14T16:59:38Z
dc.date.issued2020pl
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dc.description.accesstimew momencie opublikowania
dc.description.additionalBibliogr. s. 91-92. Indekspl
dc.description.physical77-92pl
dc.description.publication1,06pl
dc.description.seriesStudies in Euroculture
dc.description.seriesnumbervol. 5
dc.description.versionostateczna wersja wydawcy
dc.identifier.doi10.17875/gup2019-1225pl
dc.identifier.eisbn978-3-86395-431-4-9pl
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-86395-431-4pl
dc.identifier.projectROD UJ / OPpl
dc.identifier.serieseissn2512-7101
dc.identifier.seriesissn2196-3851
dc.identifier.urihttps://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/155897
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/bitstream/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-431-4/SE5_Jong_200512.pdf?sequence=4&pl
dc.languageengpl
dc.language.containerengpl
dc.pubinfoGöttingen : Göttingen University Presspl
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dc.subject.enacts of citizenshippl
dc.subject.enborderscapespl
dc.subject.enFortress Europepl
dc.subject.endiscourse analysispl
dc.subtypeArticlepl
dc.title"No borders, no nations" or "fortress Europe"? : how European citizens remake European borderspl
dc.title.containerEuropean studies and Europe : twenty years of Euroculturepl
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The notion of 'Fortress Europe' is a political battle cry employed and acted out by political groups from across the ideological spectrum in contemporary Europe. Under this slogan, Western European extreme-right groups travel to Bulgaria to participate in local citizens' militias that hunt down immigrants. Others send ships to the Mediterranean that push refugees’ boats back to the shores of North Africa. In turn, left-wing activists use the notion of Fortress Europe to denounce the EU's border policies. Their campaigns advertise the construction of a bridge over the Mediterranean, or public funerals for refugees who have died on their journey to Europe. Taking account of the increasing involvement of European citizens in the processes of giving meaning to the notion of Fortress Europe, this study examines how civil society groups (de-)construct European external borders in discourse and action. It regards European borders not as naturally given demarcations, but, in line with Brambilla's (2015) notion of "borderscapes", recognizes their spatial and conceptual complexity as socially constructed and contested spaces. Employing the toolkit of critical discourse analysis, the study uncovers the discursive strategies that an exemplary selection of right-wing and left-wing civil society groups use to establish the metaphor of Fortress Europe as significant for the EU. Furthermore, it uses the theoretical lens of "acts of citizenship" (Isin & Nielsen, 2008) to analyze how the political activists constitute themselves and others as rights claiming subjects through creative and self-organized action. The proposed paper is based on a truly interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon various strands of thought such as citizenship studies, critical border studies, critical discourse studies and critical metaphor theory. The theoretical integration of these rather novel approaches to European Studies, achieved by employing a constructivist approach to the concept of the border and citizenship, constitutes the added value of this work.
dc.affiliationpl
Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych : Instytut Europeistyki
dc.contributor.authorpl
Volk, Sabine - 400013
dc.contributor.editorpl
de Jong, Janny
dc.contributor.editorpl
Neuman, Marek
dc.contributor.editorpl
Neuman Stanivukovic, Senka
dc.contributor.editorpl
van der Waal, Margriet
dc.date.accessionpl
2020-05-11
dc.date.accessioned
2020-05-14T16:59:38Z
dc.date.available
2020-05-14T16:59:38Z
dc.date.issuedpl
2020
dc.date.openaccess
0
dc.description.accesstime
w momencie opublikowania
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Bibliogr. s. 91-92. Indeks
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77-92
dc.description.publicationpl
1,06
dc.description.series
Studies in Euroculture
dc.description.seriesnumber
vol. 5
dc.description.version
ostateczna wersja wydawcy
dc.identifier.doipl
10.17875/gup2019-1225
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978-3-86395-431-4-9
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978-3-86395-431-4
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ROD UJ / OP
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2512-7101
dc.identifier.seriesissn
2196-3851
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https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/155897
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https://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/bitstream/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-431-4/SE5_Jong_200512.pdf?sequence=4&
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eng
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eng
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Göttingen : Göttingen University Press
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Udzielam licencji. Uznanie autorstwa - Na tych samych warunkach 4.0 Międzynarodowa
dc.rights.licence
CC-BY-SA
dc.rights.uri*
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.pl
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acts of citizenship
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borderscapes
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Fortress Europe
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discourse analysis
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"No borders, no nations" or "fortress Europe"? : how European citizens remake European borders
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European studies and Europe : twenty years of Euroculture
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BookSection
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