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Towards a Trans‐border Identity in the Upper Rhine Area? Regional Cohesion in the Grip of the Nation‐State
Author(s) -
KoukoutsakiMonnier Angeliki
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
studies in ethnicity and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1754-9469
pISSN - 1473-8481
DOI - 10.1111/sena.12139
Subject(s) - german , habitus , identity (music) , multidisciplinary approach , cohesion (chemistry) , sociology , everyday life , state (computer science) , gender studies , political science , ethnography , aesthetics , social science , law , geography , anthropology , computer science , art , archaeology , chemistry , organic chemistry , algorithm
How should we discuss trans‐border identities across the F ranco‐ G erman‐ S wiss border area? Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this article aims to establish a conceptual framework in order to apprehend and study border regions. Focusing on the F ranco‐ G erman‐ S wiss border area usually designated as the ‘Upper Rhine’, the article seeks to show how actors' strategies – mainly those of institutional agents – articulate with, complement, or contradict the habitus (i.e. the practices and materialities of everyday life), giving rise to a diverse set of identity constructions and sketching a more or less precise contour of this region, and of border territories in general.