The classical border landscape studies
The former researches on border landscape in political geography field are organized around a set of a priori, of given hypothesizes.
“The present chapter will focus on the conflict-versus-cooperation aspect in the time dimension and in the spatial context, with a special emphasis on the changing nature of A-B transaction [inter-state] and the rise in importance of Az-Bz transactions [frontier zone] on the shift from conflict to harmony” (Minghi,p.17)
Here we can note some of these a priori which drove the classical research on borderland.
First, the given hierarchical relation between the centre and periphery, where the national scale and issues dominated the local scale. We can find a example in the House’s Borderland flow model, Fig1.1. For which the “locality generated Az-Bz ‘borderland’ transactions are virtually non-existent along a under the stress confrontations and threat of conflict” (Minghi,p.16), here the confrontation and come from inter-state issue. The national scale guides the evolution of the “frontier zone”, “in an era of international peace and cooperation, the issues of significance in a borderland are no longer drawn on national lines, but more a local and regional interest across the boundary” (Minghi, p.28)
The second hypothesis deals with ‘the time dimension’ and the natural evolution “from conflict to harmony”. Minghi complain that “the vast majority of these studies [the analyses of border landscape in political geography] has traditionally carried an emphasis on stress and conflict, viewing the boundary as an interface between two or more discrete national territories and subject to problem reflecting the relations the relations between the nation-states it divides” (Minghi, p.28). For the author this situation coming from the fact that most of the boundary literature had been written during the Second World Wars or in its aftermath. The author puts forward to focusing now on harmony rather than on conflict. Developing is point of view from a study of the France-Italy border in the Alpes Maritimes. In this example the creation of borderland is explain by the European Union construction, the end of French-Italian tensions.
Reference:
House J. (1981), « Frontier studies: an applied approach », Political Studies from spatial Perspective. Anglo-American Essays in Political Geography, Wiley, New York, pp.291-312
Minghi J. V. (1991), « From conflict to harmony in border landscape », The geography of Border Landscapes, Routledge, London, New York, pp.15-30
Rumley D., Minghi J. V. (1991), The geography of Border Landscapes, Routledge, London, New York, p.309
Here we can note some of these a priori which drove the classical research on borderland.
First, the given hierarchical relation between the centre and periphery, where the national scale and issues dominated the local scale. We can find a example in the House’s Borderland flow model, Fig1.1. For which the “locality generated Az-Bz ‘borderland’ transactions are virtually non-existent along a under the stress confrontations and threat of conflict” (Minghi,p.16), here the confrontation and come from inter-state issue. The national scale guides the evolution of the “frontier zone”, “in an era of international peace and cooperation, the issues of significance in a borderland are no longer drawn on national lines, but more a local and regional interest across the boundary” (Minghi, p.28)
The second hypothesis deals with ‘the time dimension’ and the natural evolution “from conflict to harmony”. Minghi complain that “the vast majority of these studies [the analyses of border landscape in political geography] has traditionally carried an emphasis on stress and conflict, viewing the boundary as an interface between two or more discrete national territories and subject to problem reflecting the relations the relations between the nation-states it divides” (Minghi, p.28). For the author this situation coming from the fact that most of the boundary literature had been written during the Second World Wars or in its aftermath. The author puts forward to focusing now on harmony rather than on conflict. Developing is point of view from a study of the France-Italy border in the Alpes Maritimes. In this example the creation of borderland is explain by the European Union construction, the end of French-Italian tensions.
Reference:
House J. (1981), « Frontier studies: an applied approach », Political Studies from spatial Perspective. Anglo-American Essays in Political Geography, Wiley, New York, pp.291-312
Minghi J. V. (1991), « From conflict to harmony in border landscape », The geography of Border Landscapes, Routledge, London, New York, pp.15-30
Rumley D., Minghi J. V. (1991), The geography of Border Landscapes, Routledge, London, New York, p.309
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