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E urope without an Endpoint. Period
Author(s) -
FerrerGallardo Xavier,
Van Houtum Henk
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/tesg.12013
Subject(s) - situated , period (music) , adventure , sociology , aesthetics , computer science , history , art , art history , artificial intelligence
Abstract This contribution focuses on the borderscape of a flat area situated at the southernmost tip of G ibraltar, at the edge of the E uropean C ontinent, which is illustratively and interestingly named E uropa P oint . We will argue that, as an evoking geographical belvedere of cultural and continental interrelationships, E uropa P oint directs attention to the inherent sociospatial ambiguities of EU rope. Embodying a crucial topo within the E uropean sociospatial b/ordering process, this borderscape stimulates to observe E urope's limits through a non‐binary lens. The text aims at providing an unfrozen alternative visualisation of the symbolic and territorial margins of the EU . Echoing D e R ougemont's conceptualisation of E urope's existence through its search for the infinite, it depicts E uropa P oint as a springboard and platform to the perpetual commencement of the E uropean adventure.