Territories beyond compare?

An exploratory roundtable on the Öresund and Gibraltar borderlands

Geovisualisations of borderland formation are hard to come by in both the Öresund and Gibraltar contexts. In this introductory roundtable, we ask: What exists, and what is missing from the existing scholarship? What methods and techniques might we draw upon to better represent the territorial extent of the respective sea regions? How might these characteristics reflect other long-standing forms of socio-spatial cohesion and fragmentation in the area? What opportunities can visualisation and other forms of representation and story-telling offer residents new ways to see, understand and engage with borderland formation in the Öresund-Gibraltar regions?

The session will explore the potential for visual methods to put different perspectives on bordering into conversation with each other – as a state project and living process, as an approach to decenter Eurocentric border studies, and as a tool to connect theoretical and practical applications of borderwork.  

Participants

• Eugénie Denarnaud, École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles
• Burcu Yigit Turan, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Medine Altiok, AA School of Architecture
• Marie Northrup Christensen, Almen modstand

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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