Borderscapes: From Border Landscapes to Border Aesthetics

Elena Dell 'Agnese (1) , Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (2)

1 UNIMIB - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca
2 PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales

We may suggest that border aesthetics is vital to border studies because it enables us to reframe the narrative setting of our conceptual work. This opens the ground for questioning the positionality of the investigator, because we are all, as the poet Gloria Anzaldúa suggested, deeply linked with these places where we have to confront the Other as much as ourselves.

Mots clés: art; Aesthetic; Border Policies; Border Effect; Border; borderscape; culture

Domaines: Géographie; Art et histoire de l'art; Science politique

Elena Dell 'Agnese, Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary. Borderscapes: From Border Landscapes to Border Aesthetics: Introduction. Geopolitics, 2015, Borderscapes: From Border Landscapes to Border Aesthetics, 20 (1), pp.1-10. ⟨10.1080/14650045.2015.1014284⟩. ⟨hal-01576823⟩