Spaces and identities in border regions : politics - media - subjects / Christian Wille, Rachel Reckinger, Sonja Kmec, Markus Hesse (eds.)

Includes bibliographical references

Exploring constructions of space and identity in border regions / Christian Wille and Rachel Reckinger -- Theoretical and methodological approaches to borders, spaces and identities. Establishing, crossing and expanding borders / Martin Doll and Johanna M. Gelberg -- Spaces : approaches and perspectives of investigation / Christian Wille and Markus Hesse -- Processes of (self) identification / Sonja Kmec and Rachel Reckinger -- Methodology and situative interdisciplinary / Christian Wille -- Space and identity constructions through institutional practices -- Policies and normalizations -- On the construction of spaces of im-/mortality : a power analysis perspective on the problematization of prostitution c. 1900 / Heike Mauer -- Castles as instruments of hegemonial space construction and representation : the example of the County of Vianden / Bernhard Kreutz -- Biogas, Power, Space : on the construction of energy regions in border areas / Fabian Faller -- Sovereignty and Discipline in the media : on the value of Foucault's Governmentality Theory : the example of an interdiscursive analysis of the migration discourse in Luxembourg / Elena Kreutzer -- Space and identity constructions through media-related practices. Representations and projections -- Multilingual advertising and regionalization in Luxembourg / Julia de Bres -- The artistic and cultural stakes for the works selected for the Robert Schuman Art Award : exhibition and the publication spaces : places of transformation as well as artistic and cultural Interstice? / Paul di Felice -- The threshold of exhibition venues : access to the world of culture / Céline Schall -- Literature of the in-between : the multilingual stagings of the publisher ultimomondo / Till Dembeck -- "Mir gesinn eis dono op facebook" : (self)-stagings of Luxembourg teenagers in social media as virtual identity constructions / Luc Belling -- Petrol stations as in-between spaces I : practices and narratives / Sonja Kmec -- Petrol stations as in-between spaces II : transfiguration / Agnès Prüm -- Space and identity constructions through everyday-cultural practices. Subjectifications and subjectivations. Sustainable everyday eating practices from the perspective of spatial identifications / Rachel Reckinger -- Gender spaces / Julia Maria Zimmerman and Christel Baltes-Löhr -- Identity constructions and regionalization : commemoration of the dead in the Treveri Region (2nd/3rd century AD) : family identities on tombstones in Arlon / Andrea Binsfeld -- Workers' housing estates and their residents : constructions of space and collective constitution of the subject / Laure Caregari -- Periurban Luxembourg : definition, positioning, and discursive construction of suburban spaces at the border between city and countryside / Markus Hesse -- Remembering the Second World War in Luxembourg and the Border Regions of its Three Neighbours / Eva Maria Klos and Benno Sönke Schulz -- Beyond Luxembourg : space and identity constructions in the context of cross-border residential migration / Christian Wille, Gregor Schnuer, Elisabeth Boesen -- Linguistic identifications in the Luxembourg-German Border Region / Heinz-Sieburg and Britta Weimann -- Luxembourg is the Singapore of the West : looking ahead / Markus Hesse -- Interview guidelines -- Authors

Spatial and identity research operates with differentiations and relations. These are particularly useful heuristic tools when examining border regions where social and geopolitical demarcations diverge. Applying this approach, the authors of this volume investigate spatial and identity constructions in cross-border contexts as they appear in everyday, institutional and media practices. The results are discussed with a keen eye for obliquely aligned spaces and identities and relinked to governmental issues of normalization and subjectivation. The studies base upon empirical surveys conducted in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg