@inbook{22b79668d0dd4dbaa0d17a97ef92d75a,
title = "Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices: A Conclusion",
abstract = "The book you hold in your hands did not try to describe what borders are. As discussed in the introduction, our focus from the beginning was on the ways we can resist borders through spatial practices. We approached borders firstly from their political and social perspective—and the types of spatial relations they produced—and only then, if necessary, from their physical dimensionality. For us this is an epistemic position that emerged from our own interest in the topic but also from the personal involvement of many of this book{\textquoteright}s contributors with the borders they describe. The majority of scholars in this book have lived the borders they study. They have experienced them at an intimate scale and they have felt their impact in their everyday lives, even before acquiring the skills to study them. For many, this engagement with borders is both situated and personal. We believe that such an approach, when it manages to overcome biases and political propagandas, can create new ways to negotiate borders: as places of meaningful adjacencies, where fruitful osmosis can over-turn their dividing role. […]",
author = "Angeliki Sioli and Nishat Awan and Kristopher Palagi",
year = "2024",
language = "English",
isbn = "978 94 6270 405 3 ",
pages = "275--277",
editor = "Angeliki Sioli and Nishat Awan and Kristopher Palagi",
booktitle = "Architectures of Resistance",
publisher = "Leuven University Press",
address = "Belgium",
}