New Region, New Story: Imagining Mobile Subjects in Transnational Space
2007; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13562570701722014
ISSN1470-1235
Autores Tópico(s)Migration, Refugees, and Integration
ResumoAbstract Abstract This paper investigates the changing relations between citizens and Europe's internal borders by seeing these relations as objects of governmentality of mobilities. It focuses on the particular discursive space of one transnational 'corridor in the making', studying how, through practices of visioning and strategy-making, governmental actors make new transnational governmental territories by breathing life into the imagined mobile subjects of these future territories. These mobile subjects play a central part in the politics of emergent transnational governmentalities and in legitimising potential border-crossing infrastructures. In a case study of the COINCO project (Corridor of Innovation and Co-operation), linking Oslo, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Malmö and Berlin, it is shown how deconstructing imagined mobile subjects reveals the will to power over mobility and sheds light on how governmental practices are remaking European borders. Notes 1. The Gothenburg–Oslo (GO) region crosses the external EU border between Sweden and Norway; the Öresund region crosses the member-state border between Sweden and Denmark; the Berlin–Brandenburg region crosses the länder border between the City Länder of Berlin and the Länder of Brandenburg. 2. Partners participating in the transnational regional future workshops and the thematic working groups. Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnne JensenAnne Jensen is in the National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus, Box 358, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark. E-mail: ajen@dmu.dk.Tim RichardsonTim Richardson (corresponding author) is in the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Fibigerstraede 13, 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark. E-mail: tim@plan.aau.dk.
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