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Towards a New Departure in Border Studies? A Comment on the Increasing Talk of Complexity

Authors: Wille, Christian;

Towards a New Departure in Border Studies? A Comment on the Increasing Talk of Complexity

Abstract

Depuis le milieu des années 2010 au plus tard, on discute la frontière comme un phénomène complexe, visant à une compréhension plus complète et différenciée des processus de frontiérisation. Cependant, il semble que la notion de « complexité » soit utilisée de manière imprécise dans le débat académique, et parfois, c'est encore une compréhension quotidienne de complexité qui prévaut. Afin d'affiner le dé-bat sur une complexité de la frontière, nous montrons dans ce commentaire dans un premier temps ce que les chercheurs en études sur les frontières considèrent actuellement comme complexe et nous nous demandons quels développements analytiques et conceptuels, suite au « bordering turn », ont encouragé le discours émergeant sur les frontières complexes. Dans un deuxième temps, nous suggé-rons comment les études sur les frontières peuvent s'inspirer des théories de la complexité, en se concentrant sur les interrelations performatives au sein des processus de frontiérisation et leurs dés/ordres émergents qui deviennent spatialement et socialement efficaces.

Spätestens seit Mitte der 2010er-Jahre wird die Grenze verstärkt als komplexes Phänomen diskutiert, um zu einem umfassenderen und differenzierteren Verständnis von B/Ordering-Prozessen zu gelangen. Allerdings scheint der Begriff „Komplexität“ in der Fachdiskussion unpräzise verwendet zu werden, und teilweise ist noch ein alltagssprachliches Verständnis von Komplexität auszumachen. Um die Debatte über eine Komplexität der Grenze zu schärfen, wird in diesem Kommentar in einem ersten Schritt aufge-zeigt, was Grenzforschende aktuell als komplex qualifizieren, und gefragt, welche analytischen und kon-zeptuellen Entwicklungen im Zuge des Bordering Turn die aufkommende Rede von komplexen Grenzen befördert haben. Im zweiten Schritt wird diskutiert, wie sich die Grenzforschung von Komplexitätstheorien inspirieren lassen kann, indem sie sich auf die performativen Wechselbeziehungen in B/Ordering-Prozessen und deren emergente Un/Ordnungen, die wiederum räumlich und sozial wirksam werden, konzentriert.

Since the mid-2010s at the latest, there has been discussion of the border as a complex phenomenon, aimed at a more comprehensive and differentiated understanding of b/orderings. However, there seems to be an imprecise use of the term ‘complexity’ in the academic debate, and sometimes, still, an everyday understanding of complexity prevails. To sharpen the debate around a border’s complexity, in this comment, in a first step, I show what border scholars currently consider complex and question which analytical and conceptual developments in the wake of the bordering turn have encouraged the increasing talk of complex borders. In the second step, I suggest how border research can be inspired by complexity theories, in focusing on performative interrelations and their emergent dis/orders that become spatially and socially effective.

10. Reduced inequalities

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Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie, Complexity shift, complexity theory, Sociologie & sciences sociales, Komplexitätstheorie, Human geography & demography, Etudes régionales & interrégionales, Bordering Turn, Grenztheorie, Complexity Theory, thérie de la complexité, Complexity Shift, Grenzkomplexität, Bordering turn, Arts & sciences humaines, Border Studies, Anthropologie, Geographie humaine & démographie, Grenzforschung, Arts & humanities, Social & behavioral sciences, psychology, Anthropology, Regional & inter-regional studies, Sociology & social sciences, border complexities, recherche sur les frontières, Border Complexities

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