Transgression as a Rule: German-Polish Cross-border Cooperation, Border Discourse and EU-enlargementWhereas currently, German-Polish relations are marked by irritations, the previous phase of politics and discourse from 1990 leading up to the EU-accession of Poland was marked by an increasing stress on Europe in both countries. This was connected with changing practices of cross-border cooperation as well as a change in academic border studies. Transgression as a Rule argues that resulting from this, cross-border cooperation has become a rule. The actors negotiate new, contradictory spaces for their actions: supported by the state but partly uncomfortable with it, drawing on the powerful discourse of cooperation and trying to escape from it. Their practices can also inform the practices of border studies. |
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Contents
IV33 Aristocratic lands in uncaring hands | 128 |
IV34 The past intrudes into the present consciousness | 129 |
IV35 Contesting the Germanisation of the past | 131 |
IV36 Silesia as contested | 132 |
IV4 Borderlands | 133 |
IV42 ReInterpreting Easternness | 135 |
IV43 A strange country | 137 |
IV5 The criminal landscape | 138 |
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II32 The inside and the outside of the territorial state | 23 |
II33 Prescribed transgressions | 24 |
II34 Beyond the limits of border studies | 26 |
II4 Deleuze and Guattari and border studies | 27 |
II41 Transgression borders and the state | 29 |
II42 Borders practice and the state | 31 |
II43 The history of the relation between transgression and regression | 32 |
II44 Border studies and transgression | 34 |
III The histories of the German and Polish Other | 37 |
II1 Histories and nationalisms of Germany and Poland | 42 |
The butterfly and the wolf | 46 |
creating the Self and the Other | 48 |
III21 The creation of the Self in Germany and Poland | 49 |
III22 The enlightened the laborious and the invention of the Polish economy | 54 |
the Drang nach Osten | 58 |
Mitteleuropadebates | 59 |
III25 Polish spaces | 61 |
redefining the relation between Self and Other | 65 |
Poland becomes not noticeable | 66 |
III32 National Socialism planning and the East | 67 |
towards European discourse | 71 |
III42 Poland after World War Two | 75 |
The history of GermanPolish Selves and Others | 78 |
IV Methodology | 80 |
IV11 Defining the field | 81 |
IV12 Encounters and interaction | 82 |
IV2 Methods and fieldwork | 84 |
IV22 Interviewing | 87 |
IV23 Newspaper archive research | 89 |
IV3 Analysis methods | 92 |
IV32 Analysis of the interviews | 94 |
IV33 Analysis of the newspaper articles | 95 |
3 Finally I wrote the chapters and translated the extracts IV4 Conclusion to the methodoloy | 96 |
V GermanPolish politics in the 1990s | 98 |
V1 The GermanPolish border | 100 |
V2 Geopolitical alignments | 101 |
V3 Uneasy relations with the Other | 103 |
V4 Polish German and Other populations | 105 |
V5 Reconciliation and crossborder cooperation | 110 |
V6 Conclusion | 112 |
IV German discourse on Poland | 114 |
IV1 First encounters with a strange land | 115 |
IV2 Travelwriting about Germany and Poland | 117 |
IV21 The gaze of the traveller | 118 |
IV22 Modifications of the gaze | 121 |
IV23 Border migrants | 122 |
IV24 The eastern journey as a challenge to the stereotypes | 123 |
IV3 Backwardlooking worlds | 125 |
IV32 The unreal mode | 126 |
IV52 Criminal flows and routes | 140 |
IV53 Writing in the Gothic mode | 141 |
IV54 Writing the crime out of Poland | 142 |
IV6 Geopolitical operations | 143 |
IV7 Good examples | 145 |
IV72 The Oder as a symbol of change | 146 |
The German discourse on Poland | 147 |
VII Polish discourse on Germany | 150 |
VII21 Historical repercussions | 154 |
VII22 Stereotypes of Poland | 155 |
VII23 Returning and shifting the gaze | 157 |
Berlin as a central place | 160 |
VII4 German and Polish borderlands | 163 |
VII42 Lost connections and approaches rejected | 166 |
VII43 The abandoned German borderlands | 167 |
VII44 The connected Polish side | 169 |
VII5 Drang nach Osten and Westen | 170 |
The new Drang | 171 |
Drang as flight | 172 |
VII53 The reverse Drang | 174 |
rewriting Polish space | 177 |
VII61 Polands new territory of flows and connections | 178 |
VII62 Journeys to the eastern border | 182 |
VII7 European geopolitics | 185 |
VII71 Poland as included and excluded in Europe | 186 |
VII72 Realist geopolitics and other discourses | 189 |
Polish discourse on Germany | 192 |
VIII The micropolitics of GermanPolish relations | 194 |
VIII11 Constructions of Silesia | 195 |
VIII12 International Park Lower Oder | 197 |
VIII13 City partnership KreuzbergSzczeciñ | 198 |
VIII2 Navigating the field | 200 |
VIII21 Defining the project at different scales | 201 |
VIII22 Relating to other institutions in the field | 207 |
crossborder relationships | 214 |
VIII32 Sociological and historical narratives | 216 |
VIII33 The functional mappings of Berlin and SzczeciĔ | 220 |
VIII4 Challenged borders and ambiguous connections | 224 |
VIII41 Dynamic pictures segmented landscapes | 225 |
VIII42 To connect or not to connect | 227 |
VIII43 Natural borders or connections | 229 |
VIII44 Borders and relationships | 234 |
VIII45 The role of the Other | 240 |
VIII5 Transgression and regression | 244 |
VIII51 The transgression of borders and history | 245 |
VIII52 The EU as a line of flight | 248 |
VIII53 Intangible connections | 252 |
VIII54 Universal and everyday transgression | 254 |
the micropolitics of cooperation | 257 |
Crossborder cooperation and the rule of transgression | 261 |
The GermanPolish border region | 265 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Transgression as a Rule: German-Polish Cross-border Cooperation, Border Discourse and EU-enlargement Volume 3 of Forum Politische Geographie |
| Author | Ulrich Best |
| Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster, 2007 |
| ISBN | 3825806545, 9783825806545 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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