This group is dedicated to the study of borders and borderlands through a cultural studies lense. As such, Cultural Border Studies cover a vast inter-/transdisciplinary field of activity mainly in the humanities, but also in social sciences and related disciplines. Instead of considering borders primarily as geographical or political structures, Cultural Border Studies approaches focus on performative, temporal, cultural, and linguistic aspects and carve out their interconnectedness and their influences and impact on processes of border production. In Cultural Border Studies, the traditional take on borders as static, fixed and stable entities or as dividing boundary lines has given way to a understanding of borders as fluid, mobile, and ubiquitious phenomena, processes, and practices. Against this backdrop, the ‘border’ amplifies its potential in research, away from a mere object of research to a subject position, a research perspective, from which analyses are carried out, and thus unfurling the playground for using border as method (Mezzadra & Neilson 2015). This development is reflected in recent theoretical conceptualizations and figures of thought such as borderscapes (amongst others, Brambilla) and bordertextures and bordertexturing (Weier et al. 2018; Fellner, Wille, & Nossem forthcomig).
Collaborations, projects, and working groups with a focus on Cultural Border Studies:
– Working Group Bordertextures (bordertextures.org, UniGR-Center for Border Studies)
– Sektion kulturwissenschaftliche Border Studies of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (https://kwgev.wordpress.com/kulturwissenschaftliche-border-studies/)
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940 in the group
Cultural Border Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThroughout the interwar period, America’s interest in Romania grew and encompassed not only political, diplomatic, and historical aspects but also financial, cultural, and educational contributions. Thus, the Romanian- American ties throughout the interwar period suggest innate complexity and dynamism. This volume presents novel techniques and i…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Perfecțiune și bun gust: Redefinirea identității feminine din Bucureștiul interbelic prin modă și frumusețe in the group
Cultural Border Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoPerfection And Good Taste: Redefining Feminine Identities in Interwar Bucharest Through Fashion and Beauty || This paper explores gender realities in interwar Bucharest through the lens of fashion and beauty. The aim is to evaluate the impact of advice literature on women in reinventing feminine identity and the general effect of these evolutions…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Call for Book Chapters: Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World. Interlaced National Symbols in the group
Cultural Border Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoChapter Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 December 2022
Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World. Interlaced National Symbols
Book edited by Dr. Sonia D. Andraş (The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania)As Vogue Paris, the only edition containing a city name, became Vogue France, the…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion Preprint PDF in the group
Cultural Border Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
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Monica Mody deposited The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Re-membering Motherlines in South Asia/Transnational Culture in the group
Cultural Border Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis paper uses Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands framework to resignify and recover the marginalized, forgotten sacred feminine and, thereby, South Asian motherlines. The borderlands is conceived of as a new consciousness, an alternative to that which is written in history. It offers a radical synthesis of spiritual healing with anti-oppression wo…[Read more]
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Eva Katharina Nossem uploaded the file: CfP: Border Languaging to
Cultural Border Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoCall for Papers for the edited volume “Border Languaging: Multilingual Practices on the Border”
