CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Hurulean, Sam |
|---|---|
| Title | The 'Schreve' is Just a Pencil Line: Struggles over Regional Assembling Along the Franco-Belgian Border |
| Summary | This study explores the current regional developments in northern France and the cross-border relations that have (re)emerged in the context of globalization and Europeanization. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it investigates what actors are involved in the construction of the region and focuses on the power play between them to analyze how they struggle to work towards regional institutionalization. Borrowing from Latour, I approach the region as a ‘regional assemblage,’ highlighting the importance of the historical trajectory. I aim to demonstrate that the process of regional assembling can be understood as, what Bourdieu has termed, a ‘symbolic struggle’ during which particular forms of capital are mobilized in order to work towards the construction of a legitimate perception of the region. I argue that the historical trajectory has forced French Flemish regionalism to confine itself to the cultural, folkloric realm and that, contrary to other French regionalisms, it has made it difficult – if not impossible – to frame efforts in a political or ethnoregionalist way. Nonetheless, new understandings of territory, and the weakening of the state boundaries have provided space for new regionalist strategies to emerge. |
| Supervisor | Fabiani, Jean-Louis; Rabinowitz, Dan |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/hurulean_sam.pdf |
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