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

虽然有相当多的边境地区的研究，到目前为止，只有很少的人知道如何在边境地区的社会空间转型过程已经展开。此外，大多数边界研究对空间理论的建立贡献不大。该项目旨在填补这一研究空白：目的是调查社会空间转型过程，即自2007年边境开放至今，波兰-德国边境地区居民和当地行为者在当地话语中的转型以及与空间相关的思维、行为和流动模式的转型。我们假设，由于物理上的去边界过程，跨越边界已经变得流行，而与此同时，文化空间继续存在于边界的任何一边。此外，我们假定，在宏观一级取消国家边界可能会导致重新划定边界的做法，例如在微观一级建立“边界”（例如竖立围栏、安装警报系统等）。在这种背景下，首要的经验问题是，哪些社会空间转型过程可以识别，即在多远的“间隙”出现，在多远的边界和重新边界的过程可以观察到，他们是如何相互关联的，他们如何可以被描述和系统化。该项目旨在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个问题。关于这些做法，将审查流动模式以及离境或离境的实质性问题。为了进行详细的分析，将通过视觉方法（例如视频漫游，混合映射）使当今的移动性和物质性变得可见。理论问题是如何在边境地区的社会空间转型过程的实证结果可以概念化，从而沟通建构主义及其空间理论，演员网络理论和流动性的概念的影响将取得丰硕成果。研究团队由社会学和地理学的学者组成，他们在边境地区的研究，空间理论以及实证研究方法（包括视觉方法和混合地图）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.