DE-RE-BORD - Socio-spatial transformations in German-Polish 'interstices'. Practices of debordering and rebordering

虽然关于边界地区的研究很多，但迄今为止，人们对边界地区的社会空间转变过程了解甚少。此外，大多数边界研究对空间理论建设的贡献很小。该项目旨在解决这一研究差距：目的是调查社会-空间转变过程，即自2007年边界开放至今，波兰-德国边境地区居民和当地行动者在与空间有关的思维、行为和流动模式方面的转变，即当地话语的转变。我们假设，由于物质上的混乱，跨越边界的过程已经变得流行起来，而与此同时，边界两侧的文化空间仍然存在。此外，我们认为，在宏观层面上拆除国家边界可能会带来重新划分边界的做法，例如在微观层面上竖起“边界”(例如，在竖起栅栏、安装警报系统等方面)。在这种背景下，最重要的经验问题是，可以确定哪些社会-空间转变进程，即在多大程度上出现“间隙”，在多大程度上可以观察到脱序和重新界定进程，它们如何相互关联，如何描述它们并使之系统化。该项目试图通过关注当地话语以及居民和当地行为者的知识和做法的转变来回答这一问题。关于这些做法，将审查流动模式以及脱序或重新界定的重要性。对于详细的分析，将通过视觉方法(例如，视频行走、混合地图)使当今的流动性和物质性可见。理论问题是如何概念化边境地区社会-空间转变过程的经验结果，从而使交往建构主义及其对空间理论、行动者网络理论和流动性概念的影响取得成果。研究团队由社会学和地理学的学者组成，他们在边界地区的研究、空间理论以及包括视觉方法和混合制图在内的实证研究方法方面经验丰富。

Although there is considerable research on border regions, so far only little is known about how socio-spatial transformation processes in border regions have unfolded. Furthermore, most border studies have contributed little to spatial theory-building. The project intends to address this research gap: The aim is to investigate socio-spatial transformation processes, i.e. transformations in local discourses as well as transformations in space-related thinking, acting and mobility patterns of residents and local actors in a selection of Polish-German border regions since the opening of the border in 2007 until the present days. We assume that due to physical debordering processes crossing the border has become popular, whereas at the same time cultural spaces continue to exist on either side of the border. Furthermore, we assume that the removal of a national border on the macro-level may bring about practices of rebordering such as the erection of "borders" on the micro-level (e.g. in terms of erecting fences, installing alarm systems, etc.). Against this background the overarching empirical question is which socio-spatial transformation processes can be identified, i.e. in how far "interstices" emerge, in how far debordering and rebordering processes can be observed, how they are interrelated, how they can be described and systematised. The project seeks to answer the question by focusing on transformations in local discourses as well as in the knowledge and practices of residents and local actors. Regarding the practices, mobility patterns as well as materialities of debordering or rebordering will be examined. For detailed analyses, the mobilities and materialities in the present days will be made visible by visual methods (e.g. video-walkings, hybrid mappings). The theoretical question is how the empirical results on socio-spatial transformation processes in border regions can be conceptualised, whereby communicative constructivism with its implications for spatial theory, actor-network-theory, and concepts of mobility will be made fruitful. The research team comprises scholars from sociology and geography being highly experienced in the research on border regions, in spatial theories, and in empirical research methods including visual methods and hybrid mapping.