Download or read book The Franco Belgian Border Region written by Hugh D. Clout and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The France Belgian Border Region written by Hugh Clout and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Borders and Border Regions in Europe written by Arnaud Lechevalier and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing European borders: The book provides insight into a variety of changes in the nature of borders in Europe and its neighborhood from various disciplinary perspectives. Special attention is paid to the history and contemporary dynamics at Polish and German borders. Of particular interest are the creation of Euroregions, mutual perceptions of Poles and Germans at the border, EU Regional Policy, media debates on the extension of the Schengen area. Analysis of cross-border mobility between Abkhazia and Georgia or the impact of Israel's »Security Fence« to Palestine on society complement the focus on Europe with a wider view.
Download or read book Spaces and Identities in Border Regions written by Christian Wille and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial and identity research operates with differentiations and relations. These are particularly useful heuristic tools when examining border regions where social and geopolitical demarcations diverge. Applying this approach, the authors of this volume investigate spatial and identity constructions in cross-border contexts as they appear in everyday, institutional and media practices. The results are discussed with a keen eye for obliquely aligned spaces and identities and relinked to governmental issues of normalization and subjectivation. The studies base upon empirical surveys conducted in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Download or read book Borders and Border Spaces in the UE written by and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nationalising and Denationalising European Border Regions 1800 2000 written by Hans Knippenberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and geographers explore the changing nature of the function of political borders in Europe over the past two centuries. Of particular importance is the very different processes and outcomes that have characterized Eastern and Western Europe over time. Eleven papers explore such topics as the politicized borders of Greek Macedonia; borders, ethnicity, and demographic patterns in the Russian Baltic provinces in the late 19th century; a geographical analysis of identity patterns in the Basque region; and the changing impact of boundaries on regional development in Switzerland. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Borders and Border Regions in Europe and North America written by Paul Ganster and published by SCERP and IRSC publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culture Identity and Nationalism written by Timothy Baycroft and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the evolution of national and regional, cultural and political identities in that northern region of France which borders Belgium, over the two centuries which followed the French Revolution. During that time the region was transformed by the development of the industrial economy, population shifts, war and occupation, and numerous changes of political regime. Through an analysis of a wide range of issues, including language, regional and national political movements, educational policy, attitudes towards immigrants and the border, the press, trade unions, and the church - as well as the attitude of the French State - the author questions traditional interpretations of the process of national assimilation in France. At the same time he illustrates how the Franco-Belgian border, originally an arbitrary line through a culturally homogeneous region, became not only a significant marker for the identity of the French Flemish, but a real cultural division. TIMOTHY BAYCROFT is lecturer in French history, University of Sheffield.
Download or read book Borders and Border Spaces in the EU Volume 2 written by Birte Wassenberg and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which are the perceptions of the border in European border regions before and after the COVID-19 pandemic? This Cahier Fare n°25 presents the results of the Jean Monnet Network “Frontières en mouvement: quels modèles pour l’UE (FRONTEM)?”, which was supported by the EU’s Erasmus+ program for the period between 2019-2023. The network exchanged knowledge and practices on five different types of EU border perception: at the border between France and Germany, at the border between France and Belgium, at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, at the border between Rumania and Hungary and at the border between Denmark and Germany. By analysing the results of focus groups organised in and mental maps drawn for each of the 5 border regions concerned, it critically examines the perception of the border as a place of cross-border reconciliation, of minority co-existence and of peace facilitation. The key question addressed by the network was to assess the mental perception of the border when faced with processes of re-bordering and the re-questioning of the model of a “Europe without borders”.
Download or read book Border Regional Economics written by Rongxing Guo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research work is to commemorate all Guos' ancestor, who guarded the border for his Majesty dutifully, and who is the foremost supporter in my academic career. For the past decades, economists and geographers from both developed and developing countries have studied the economic issues either within individual countries (regions), or between countries (regions). Only a relatively small part of these efforts has been focused on the economic affairs of those countries' (regions') peripheral areas and even less attention has been given to the structural analysis of economic mechanisms of the border-regions with different political levels and compositions. My interest in border-regions more or less directly relates to some personal reasons of mine. The Chinese family name, Guo, means a guard for an outer city-wall (herein it used to be a political and military border in ancient China, e. g. , the Chinese Great Wall). It is more interesting that Guo is written with a different Chinese character from that used for the like sounding "Guo" (country). The Chinese writing of the latter is a square frame inside which lies a Chinese character, Wang (king), in the centre and a point in the comer. It might be simply supposed that the "point" was used by the inventor to necessarily represent the "border guard" probably because of its vital importance to the country.
Download or read book Small State in Boundary Conflict written by Rune Johansson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saar Lorraine written by David Burtenshaw and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Easing Legal and Administrative Obstacles in EU Border Regions written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this case study, local spatial planning decisions are used to shed light on the obstacles to cross-border public consultation procedures. The complex features of cross-border entities, sometimes overlapping each other's competences, increase the difficulty to assess the cause, scale and consequences of the obstacles identified. This case study provides evidence that spatial planning is particularly important for cross-border cooperation, since it can provide a way of managing and steering development in a cooperative way, thereby creating a more stable climate for investment and fostering a better quality of life. More specifically, the installation of wind turbines in the municipality of Wervik in Flanders, located at the border of Belgium and France is used as an example to illustrate the complex aspects of cross-border public consultation procedures. An inventory of more than 200 cross-border obstacles between Belgium and France (BE-FR) was published in 2007. Within this long list of obstacles, 14 of them relate to spatial planning issues. The inventory process was steered by a cross-border Task Force made up of 12 members of the two national Parliaments (6 from each country). This initiative led to the creation of a spatial planning coordination platform hosted by the Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai, which was formed in 2008 as a European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation (EGTC). Despite this major step forward in the spatial planning governance of the BE-FR cross-border area, difficulties have yet to be overcome and many problems remain unresolved, especially with regard to consultation procedures on the installation of wind turbines. While the inventory of cross-border obstacles was updated in 2014, taking into the progress made in different fields including spatial planning, the issues related to wind turbine installations remain. Several solutions to obstacles provide learnings on spatial planning methods while others refer to good governance. These include: Adopting an end-user approach to cross border obstacles; Including 'information-sharing' as the first item on the agenda of each EGTC's meeting; Referencing spatial planning obstacles into a common matrix; Implementing concerted management; Designing an EU compendium of spatial planning tools and practices; Steering the spatial planning process; (Re) establishing good neighbourly relations; Establishing a network of planners as contact points across relevant borders; Coordinating vertical cooperation in spatial planning decisions; Setting common provisions for the implementation of cross border cooperation in the EU.
Download or read book Nationalising and Denationalising European Border Regions 1800 2000 written by Hans Knippenberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last two centuries, the political map of Europe has changed considerably. More recently, there are remarkably contrasting tendencies concerning the functions and densities of borders. The borders inside the European Union lost their importance, whereas Central and Eastern Europe saw the birth of a multitude of new state borders. The long-term study of border regions, therefore, is a fascinating subject for geographers, historians, social scientists, and political scientists. The main thesis of this book is that the rise of the modern nation-state reinforced the separating function of state borders by nationalising the people on both sides of it. This process gained strength in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was challenged in the second half of this century by processes of supra-national integration, globalisation and the revolution in communication and transport, as the case studies from different parts of Europe of this book will show. Audience: This book will be of interest to academics, researchers and practitioners in geography, history, political sciences, European studies and East-European studies.
Download or read book Unconventional Anthroponyms written by Oliviu Felecan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unconventional Anthroponyms: Formation Patterns and Discursive Function continues a series of collective volumes comprising studies on onomastics, edited by Oliviu Felecan with Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Previous titles in this series include Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (2012) and Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space (2013, co-edited with Alina Bugheşiu). In contemporary naming practice, one can distinguish two verbal (linguistic) means of nominal referential identification: a “natural” one, which occurs in the process of conventional, official, canonical, standard naming and results in conventional/official/canonical/standard anthroponyms; a “motivated” one, which occurs in the process of unconventional, unofficial, uncanonical, non-standard naming and results in unconventional/unofficial/uncanonical/non-standard anthroponyms. The significance of an official name is arbitrary, conventional, unmotivated, occasional and circumstantial, as names are not likely to carry any intrinsic meaning; names are given by third parties (parents, godparents, other relatives and so on) with the intention to individualise (to differentiate from other individuals). Any meaning with which a name might be endowed should be credited to the name giver: s/he assigns several potential interpretations to the phonetic form of choice, based on his/her aesthetic and cultural options and other kinds of tastes, which are manifested at a certain time. Unconventional anthroponyms (nicknames, bynames, user names, pseudonyms, hypocoristics, individual and group appellatives that undergo anthroponymisation) are nominal “derivatives” that result from a name giver’s wish to attach a specifying/defining verbal (linguistic) tag to a certain individual. An unconventional anthroponym is a person’s singular signum, which may convey a practical necessity (to avoid anthroponymic homonymy: the existence of several bearers for a particular name) or the intention to qualify a certain human type (to underline specific difference – in this case, the unconventional anthroponym has an over-individualising role – or, on the contrary, to mark an individual’s belonging to a class, his/her association with other individuals with whom s/he is typologically related – see the case of generic unconventional anthroponyms).
Download or read book Miraculous Realism written by Niels Niessen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, two movies from northern-Francophone Europe swept almost all the main awards. Rosetta by the Walloon directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the Golden Palm, and L'humanité by the French director Bruno Dumont won the Grand Prize; both won acting awards as well. Taking this "miracle" of Cannes as the point of departure, Niels Niessen identifies a transregional film movement in the French-Belgian border region—the Cinéma du Nord or "cinema of the North." He examines this movement within the contexts of French and Belgian national cinemas from the silent era to the digital age, as well as that of the new realist tendency in world cinema of the last three decades. In addition, he traces, from a northern perspective, a secular-religious tradition in Francophone-European film and philosophy from Bresson and Pialat, via Bazin, Deleuze, and Godard, to the Dardennes and Dumont, while critiquing this tradition for its frequent use of a humanist vocabulary of grace for a secular world. Once a cradle of the Industrial Revolution, the Franco-Belgian Nord faced economic crisis for most of the twentieth century. Miraculous Realism demonstrates that the Cinéma du Nord's rise to prominence resulted from the region's endeavor to reinvent itself economically and culturally at the crossroads of Europe after decades of recession.
Download or read book The U S Mexican Border Environment written by Paul Ganster and published by SCERP and IRSC publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
