“<i>Voir l'Autre</i>”? Seeing the Other, the Developments of the Arab Spring and the European Neighborhood Policy toward Algeria and Tunisia

Hoh, Anna-Lena

doi:10.1080/08865655.2014.916068

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“…Partly as a response to geopolitical upheaval in North Africa (Bauer ; Tömmel ; Hoh ; Jüneman et al . ), in May 2011 the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy presented the joint communication ‘A New Response to a Changing Neighbourhood’ (http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/fule/docs/news/review_en.pdf.).…”

Section: Cohesion and Fracture In The Mediterraneanmentioning

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Revisiting Al‐Idrissi: The Eu and the (Euro)Mediterranean Archipelago Frontier

Ferrer-Gallardo

Kramsch

2016

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This contribution has three overarching objectives. First, it seeks to describe the logics of fracture and cohesion governing current geopolitical dynamics in the Mediterranean. Second, in the face of these contradictory tendencies, it proposes the notion of archipelago‐frontier as a concept for deepening our understanding of an ever more dispersed and ubiquitous geography defining the Southern border of the EU. In this light we draw on the contemporary resonances of the destabilising cartographic imagination of Al‐Idrissi (1100‐1165). And we argue that, read today, it helps us rethink the current symbolic, terminological (and hence geopolitical) abduction of the Mediterranean by the European Union, which the very term ‘Euromediterranean’ encapsulates. Finally, the paper underlines the necessity of forging new vistas on the Mediterranean engendering perspectives that are more dialogical, plurivocal and sensitive to permanent transformation, as evoked by a long‐term spatial as well as political horizon of struggle.

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Section: Cohesion and Fracture In The Mediterraneanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting Al‐Idrissi: The Eu and the (Euro)Mediterranean Archipelago Frontier

Ferrer-Gallardo

Kramsch

2016

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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“…It is also evident that the EU performs 'bordering' not only at its outer confines but also in the more general framing of neighbourhood relations with South Mediterranean societies (Hoh 2014, Scott, 2015. For example, as Diez (2006) has argued, the EU's 'normative power paradox' results in a situation in which Eurocentric understandings of differences and commonalities -which are supposed to justify stronger cooperation across the Union's external bordersreinforce distinctions between the EU, the outside world and its neighbours, in particular.…”

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Bordering imaginaries and the everyday construction of the Mediterranean neighbourhood: Introduction to the special issue

Scott

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Coletti

2018

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This special issue of European Urban and Regional Studies maps out a move from a strictly geopolitical to more socio-political and socio-cultural interpretations of the European Union’s (EU’s) ‘Mediterranean neighbourhood’. In doing this, the authors propose a dialogic understanding of neighbourhood as a set of ideas and imaginaries that reflect not only top-down geopolitical imaginaries but also everyday images, representations and imaginations. The introduction briefly summarizes conceptualizations of ‘neighbourhood’ provided by the individual contributions that connect the realm of high politics with that of communities and individuals who are affected by and negotiate the EU’s Mediterranean borders. Specifically, three cases of socio-spatial imaginaries that exemplify patterns of differential inclusion of the ‘non-EU’ will be explored. The cases involve Italy–Tunisia cross-border relations, the EU’s post-‘Arab Spring’ engagement with civil society actors and the case of Northern Cyprus. The authors suggest that ‘neighbourhood’ can be conceptualized as a borderscape of interaction and agency that is politically framed in very general terms but that in detail is composed of many interlinked relational spaces. The European neighbourhood emerges as a patchwork of relations, socio-cultural encounters, confrontation and contestation, rather than merely as a cooperation policy or border regime.

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Constructing European Neighborhood: Critical Perspectives from EU-Ukraine Interaction and Civil Society Actors

Scott

2016

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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“Voir l'Autre”? Seeing the Other, the Developments of the Arab Spring and the European Neighborhood Policy toward Algeria and Tunisia

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Revisiting Al‐Idrissi: The Eu and the (Euro)Mediterranean Archipelago Frontier

Revisiting Al‐Idrissi: The Eu and the (Euro)Mediterranean Archipelago Frontier

Bordering imaginaries and the everyday construction of the Mediterranean neighbourhood: Introduction to the special issue

Constructing European Neighborhood: Critical Perspectives from EU-Ukraine Interaction and Civil Society Actors

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