Bordering money:

Crisis and change at the geoeconomic frontier

What economic strategies and techniques do public authorities employ to enhance the circulation of people and capital throughout border zones? How are these activities materially and symbolically legitimated in the territory? How does cross-border cooperation seek to mitigate against geo-economic different forms of regional instability and vulnerability? What effects do such strategies have on region-building efforts and residents themselves?

• Christer Persson, City of Malmö: "A region in trouble? Öresund 20 years after the bridge"
• William Kutz, Université de Paris-Cité: "Local geoeconomics: efforts to re-border Spanish market power in North Africa"

Respondents

• Kristian Olesen, Aalborg University
• James W. Scott, University of Eastern Finland

About the webinar series

Centre for Oresund Region Studies, Lund University, holds a series of 90-minute webinars on borders and borderland formation from 14 September-7 December 2022.

The seminar series will underscore the multiplicity of bordering perspectives and the plasticity of border trajectories as a way to construct alternative imaginaries of borderland formation as they pertain to Scandinavian and Mediterranean contexts. Focusing on cross-border regions in Scandinavia (Öresund) and the Mediterranean (Gibraltar), the meetings will bring together researchers, artists, and regional practitioners to debate, characterise and visualise these spaces from a decidedly comparative perspective – across cultural contexts, geographical scales, and cartographic perspectives.

The seminars will take place over six sessions, every other Wednesday from 14:30 to 16:00. During each meeting, two contributors will present their work, with one local and one international guest respondent to comment on the respective issues raised during the talks. This will be followed by a moderated discussion among wider audience members and speakers.

Registration

If you would like to attend some or all of the seminars, please register here.

The webinar series is free of charge, but you have to register to receive the Zoom link.

Read more on the Centre for Oresund Region Studies website

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