CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Radu, Cosmin Gabriel |
|---|---|
| Title | The border will tear us apart again: governing bodies and commodities at the margins of the state |
| Summary | On the bases of ethnographic data collected on the border area between Romania and Serbia in the pre-and post-accession period to EU, this thesis investigates the consequences of the internationalization and the Europanization of this border on the practices, networks and the power relations of the people involved in the border-crossings. As the idea of the national border is rescaling and changing positionality by becoming a EU external border, the populations and places encompassed by the border region, as well as governing of the flows undergo important transformations. In addition to the dynamics of rescaling and fragmentation of the state after 1989, the making of the external EU border also contributed to these fragmentation and reterritorialization processes. I analyze these dynamics taking place within the context of cross-border securitization as a gradual shift from predatory rule to the making of the post-socialist state of the 1990s. In order to examine the interactions between the state and the borders, I explore the transnational form of governance enacted by the European Union. This thesis is an attempt to unpack the new forms of governmentality of flows taking place within context of the post-socialist EU. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar; Caglar, Ayse |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/radu_cosmin-gabriel.pdf |
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