RT Journal Article
T1 Recent geohistorical research on boundary-making. Challenging conventional naratives on borders and modern state-building
A1 Puente Lozano, Paloma
A1 García Álvarez, Jacobo
AB The paper aims at providing an overview of recent scholarship from the last 3 decades on boundary-making, borders, and the territorial shaping of modern states between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. Scholarship in various languages (namely English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian) and from various fields of inquiry will be reviewed in order to highlight their shared themes and common concerns from a comparatist, transdisciplinary, and international perspective. We contend that the field has seen an improvement in knowledge about boundary-making, methodological changes, and a widening of primary sourcesand research materials. As a result, conventional narratives on state-building, as well as the accompanying understanding of boundary lines as the mere result of institutional imposition by central state agencies, have been nuanced and enriched. We claim that expanding on these remarkable outcomes of recent scholarship on boundary-making would help to further bridge the gap between traditional/geohistorical and postmodern/contemporary approaches to border studies.
PB Wiley
SN 1749-8198
YR 2021
FD 2021-11-24
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34338
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34338
LA eng
NO This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and the EuropeanRegional Development Fund (Research Project CSO2015-65301-P, MINECO/FEDER), as well as by the Spanish StateResearch Agency (Research Project PID2020-114088GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
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