5:33 p.m.
This, the second webinar series organised by the Borderland Working Group
at CORS, explores fundamental questions about how border research is
approached and practiced across professional and disciplinary outlooks.
With a focus on methodology in mind, we will explore the possibilities that
alternative modes of representation and comparison might generate for
critical border studies. *Dwelling, elsewhere* serves as a starting point
for these discussions. Dwelling is something that takes place, *in place*
– to live, inhabit or reside some-*how*, some-*where*. This means that
dwelling is both an experiential process that is lived and performed, but
also *performative* in the way that "residency" instantiates a rapport
between citizens, states and borders. Therefore, borderland inhabitation is
deeply shaped and shaped by overlapping materialities and
temporalities that unevenly constrain how difference and diversity are
expressed in a given territory, as well as the various spaces that human
and non-human beings occupy as they move through the landscape.
To this end, the webinar discussions aim to bring together contrasting
disciplinary and professional universes to ask: how we can better capture
the ways in which borderlands are inhabited – socially, linguistically,
materially – by humans and non-humans alike. Specifically:
- What methods, frameworks and practices can we draw upon to better
understand how *dwelling, elsewhere* comes together at the interstices
of different boundaries, borders and frontiers?
- In what ways might such modes of (co)-inhabitation transform as
boundaries become more permeable, uneven and fragmented?
- How can these comparative, methodological and representational
gestures be brought to bear on current realities affecting the Öresund
region and beyond?
We welcome contributions from people from all academic, artistic, and
professional backgrounds who are interested in discussions focused on the
study of borderlands from methodological, comparative, and visual
perspectives, especially those interested in sharing ideas and experiences
from *beyond* the Öresund region itself, in order to reflect upon changes
occurring within it.
For more information about the Borderland Working Group please write to
William Kutz at william.kutz(a)cors.lu.se.