Useful Links
This section provides useful links to websites, publications and organizations of interest to the themes researched within the EastBordNet network. If you would like to add an entry to this section or report a broken link, please contact Darien Rozentals - darien.rozentals at manchester.ac.uk.
Association for Borderland Studies (USA)
The Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) is the leading international scholarly association dedicated exclusively to the systematic interchange of ideas and information relating to international border areas. Founded in 1976 with the original emphasis on the study of the United States-Mexico borderlands region, the Association has grown steadily. It now encompasses an interdisciplinary membership of scholars at more than one hundred academic, governmental institutions, and NGOs representing the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe.
Association of European Border Regions
The idea of setting up a European association or union for border regions was first discussed at the "International Conference on Regional Planning" in Basel in 1965. A Standing Committee of European Border Regions was set up on June 17 and 18, 1971 at Anholt Castle (EUREGIO) by a total of 10 border regions. Tasks of the association include helping help to solve cross-border problems and to support special activities; to prepare and implement common campaigns within the networks; to inform European political bodies and the public about cross-border issues.
Border Poetics Research Group
The Border Poetics Research Group sets out to develop theoretical and practical strategies (a "border poetics") for examining the function of these forms of representation in the intersection between territorial borders and aesthetic works. Analysing primarily border-crossing narratives in literary texts, it aims to test two main theses: 1) that narrative and symbolic representation is a central element in border formation and experience; 2) that textual or medial borders within or around aesthetic works are related to the borders represented in these works.
Border Towns Forum
The Border Towns Forum website is a gateway for all BORDER TOWNS to (virtually) meet, to exchange experiences, to learn more about cross-border co-operation in Europe and in the Mediterranean and to join international research networks.
Centre for Border Studies, University of Glamorgan, Wales
The Centre for Border Studies at the University of Glamorgan was established in 2003 with funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. It is committed to producing research that is focused on and highly relevant to Wales but that is European in scope and global in significance. It aims to make a significant contribution to the better understanding of the intertwined nature of diverse national, political and cultural identities in contemporary Wales, Europe and beyond.
Centre for Cross Border Studies, Armagh, Northern Ireland
The Centre for Cross Border Studies, founded in September 1999 and based in Armagh and Dublin, researches and develops cooperation across the Irish border in education, training, health, planning, public administration, communications, agriculture and the economy, and acts as secretariat for a number of cross-border educational networks. It has also developed unique cross-border information systems BorderIreland: www.borderireland.info and BorderPeople: www.borderpeople.info.
Centre for International Borders Research (CIBR)
The Centre for International Borders Research (CIBR) is an interdisciplinary centre for empirical, comparative and theoretical study of international borders and border regions. Based at Queen's University Belfast, it builds on Northern Ireland's advantages for border study and the research interests of a core group of academic staff. It has links with the Centre for Spatial Territorial Analysis and Research (C-STAR) at the School of Geography, and complements and co-operates with the Centre for Cross Border Studies which promotes policy-related research on cross border co-operation on the island of Ireland from its base in Armagh. CIBR is also in the process of forging links with other research institutions internationally, most recently with the Association of Borderlands Studies (ABS) with whom it maintains an extensive bibliography on borders.
Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRE)
Based at Lancaster University, and focuses on the concept of 'mobilities', which encompasses both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as the more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public space, and the travel of material things within everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, have elicited a number of new research initiatives for understanding the connections between these diverse mobilities.
Centre for Regional and Transboundary Studies (CRTS)
Center for Regional and Transboundary Studies is a research unit within Volgograd State University. It was established in 2001 for research of social, political, ethno-cultural and other transboundary problems of the post-Soviet states and of regional issues of international relations within the same area (mainly of the South-Western Russia and Central Asia). The main fields of the Center's activity are: research projects; organization of conferences and seminars; publication of annual and other works; informational and methodical support for teaching specializations "The Countries of CIS" and "Central Asian Countries" within the "Area Studies" speciality at Volgogtad State University; and, support for activities of young researchers.
Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI)
The CEELI Institute is an independent, not-for-profit, international provider of post-graduate, professional legal education headquartered in Prague. Its mission is to develop an international, professional community of reformers committed to the rule of law. Through innovative training programs and other activities, the Institute works with judges and legal reformers in countries in transition to support the continued development of market economies and democratic institutions and build a respect for human rights.
COMPAS
The mission of COMPAS is to conduct high quality research in order to develop theory and knowledge, inform policy-making and public debate, and engage users of research within the field of migration.’
Danish Institute of Border Region Studies
The research topics of the Danish Institute of Border Region Studies are language and pedagogy, culture and identity. Their projects include the meeting of languages and cultures in the Danish-German border region; Europe Class Tønder-Niebüll; the Danish-German border – barrier and bridge; Copenhagen-Bonn Declarations 1955-2005; and, Minorities around the Baltic sea.
ENACT
ENACT is a consortium bringing together researchers from three original member states of the European Union (UK, Belgium and the Netherlands), two new member states (Hungary and Latvia) and a candidate state (Turkey) to explore in depth how European citizenship is claimed, disputed, built -- in short, enacted.
ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
Inaugurated in 1997, the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick is the largest academic centre in Europe dealing with this subject area. CSGR is a multidisciplinary project whose research agenda highlights issues of the definition, measurement, impacts, and policy implications of globalisation and regionalisation. Much of the Centre’s research concentrates on questions such as comparative regionalisms, the political economy of global and regional finance and trade, civil society in globalisation and regionalisation, and security issues in globalisation and regionalisation.
“Gendered Aspects of Migration in Southeast Europe” is now available in Greek, Albanian and English
The research project, funded by the Pythagoras Program of the European
Union and carried out by the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly, examined migration as a gendered experience through the life stories of male and female migrants
from Albania and Bulgaria to Greece.The site is structured around a digital exhibition of personal photographs selected from migrants’ albums, which are paired with extracts from the main corpus of interviews.
International Association for Feminist Economics - Europe
IAFFE-Europe is the European Chapter of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). IAFFE is a non-profit organization advancing feminist inquiry of economic issues and educating economists and others on feminist points of view on economic issues. The assocation aims at bringing together and supporting feminist economic research in Europe.
International Boundaries Research Unit, Durham University
The International Boundaries Research Unit works to minimise conflict associated with international boundaries on land and at sea around the world. Our work is interdisciplinary in approach and global in scope, integrating theory and practice in order to provide: practical expertise in boundary-making, border management and territorial dispute resolution; and academic leadership in the study of boundaries and their impact on international relations and borderland development. Since its foundation in 1989 IBRU has built up an international reputation as a leading source of information and expertise on boundary and territorial issues worldwide. The International Boundaries Research Unit also provides a search facility for boundary related links.
International Gender and Trade Network
IGTN is a network of feminist gender specialists who provide technical information on gender and trade issues to women's groups, NGOs, social movements and governments and acts as a political catalyst to enlarge the space for a critical feminist perspective and global action on trade and globalization issues. IGTN is a Southern-led network that builds South/North cooperation in the work of developing more just and democratic policy from a critical feminist perspective; currently organized in seven regions: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Central Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Gulf, and North America.
ISIG Quarterly on International Sociology
Articles from the ISIG Quarterly on International Sociology are available to download from this site.
Mediterranean Mobilities
Mediterranean Mobilities is an international collective of researchers looking at the transnational complexity of Mediterranean life. This networking initiative seeks to generate transnational capabilities to research the challenges facing the Mediterranean in the 21st centry.
No Border Network
No Border is a large international network with many local networks in many parts of Europe. There are many other websites associated with this network. The network describes itself as:
"The no border network is a tool for all groups and grass root organizations who work on the questions of migrants and asylum seekers in order to struggle alongside with them for freedom of movement, for the freedom for all to stay in the place which they have chosen, against repression and and the many controls which multiply the borders everywhere in all countries. This network is different from lobbying groups and NGOs because it is based on groups of grass root activists and intends to stay so."
TransitMigration
TRANSIT MIGRATION is an experimental, transdisciplinary and political project.
It examines the ways in which transnational migration movements are transforming Europe and ist discourses on gouvernance, citizenship and labour markets. TRANSIT MIGRATION asks how, and whether, it is possible to represent this reality in academic discourse, in the media and in art. Since 2007 TRANSIT MIGRATION is organized as independent association based in Berlin under the name transit e.V.
URB-EST - Telematic Network
Telematic Network is a network between the Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Eastern European municipalities and promotes common living, local democracy and urban sustainable development.
Women in Black
Women in Black (WiB) is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence. Women in Black are not an organisation, but a means of mobilisation and a formula for action. Women in Black actions are generally women only, and often take the form of women wearing black, standing in a public place in silent, non-violent vigils at regular times and intervals, carrying placards and handing out leaflets.
Women In International Security
Women In International Security (WIIS) is the only global network actively advancing women’s leadership, at all stages of their careers, in the international peace and security field. Since its inception, WIIS has grown into a network of over 1,500 members in more than 47 countries. These members include policymakers, educators, military personnel, diplomats, legislative aides, researchers, journalists, business executives, lobbyists, and students. Members are working on and interested in diverse issues affecting international security, ranging from non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), to terrorism, human rights, sustainable development, environmental security, and conflict resolution.