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Querying cosmopolis at the borders of Europe.
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Environment & Planning A . Jul2007, Vol. 39 Issue 7, p1582-1600. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- Notions of immanence provide the implicit theoretical grammar for much work exploring the political terrain of an active transnational or radically cosmopolitan society in our day. In this paper I attempt to problematize such a gesture in the recent `turn to cosmopolis', arguing that its conceptual frame fails to specify adequately the geohistorical preconditions for a politics capable of mediating between nationalizing and cosmopolitanizing tendencies at work in a globalizing world. For the case of Europe, I argue such a legacy may be more productively located in the `border work' of mid-2Oth-century anti-imperialism and decolonization, whose struggles to redefine the postcolonial couplet of `nation' and `state' haunt current attempts by the European Union to craft a more inclusive and cosmopolitan transboundary future. I explore how such governmentalizing phantasms specifically inform attempts to create viable cross-border regions (euregios) within the EU, and continue to gnaw at attempts to negotiate boundary disputes at the outer limits of the continent. In conclusion, a cautious rite of exorcism is ventured by engaging with the elusive anti-imperial cosmopolitanism of Frantz Fanon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0308518X
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Environment & Planning A
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25945729
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a38212