It is a great pleasure to announce the recent publication of a Special Issue on Urban Bordering in Europe in the European Urban and Regional Studies journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09697764231168534

While comprised in its totality of different and complementary contributions from a diversity of disciplines and geographical locations in Europe, the Special Issue deals with the practical application and social effects of bordering practices on the social and urban fabric. Urban Bordering in Europe contributes to this emerging research agenda by establishing a transdisciplinary dialogue. First, by combining several theoretical traditions within urban studies: (1) critical scholarship that scrutinises the political use of notions of civility and the negotiation of what is considered (in)appropriate behaviour or out-of-place (Bannister et al., 2006; Di Ronco, 2017; Galdon-Clavell, 2016; Lundsteen and Fernández González, 2020; Méndez Beck and Jaffe, 2019) and (2) moral geography (Cresswell, 1996, 2005; Sibley, 1995). Second, the Issue applies this combination to recent interdisciplinary research on bordering practices (Bosworth et al., 2018; Miller, 2008; Onwuachi-Willig, 2017; Yuval-Davis et al., 2019) and b/ordering (Brambilla, 2021; Paasi, 2021; Scott, 2021; van Houtum, 2021; Vollmer, 2021), and links it with the developing literature on anthropological criminology and criminalisation (Comaroff and Comaroff, 2008; Schneider and Schneider, 2008; Vigh and Sausdal, 2018, 2019). Finally, on a methodological level, this is done in a bottom-up in a multi-scalar fashion, emphasising the interplay between broad political and economic projects, their relation to regimes of belonging, and, finally, the projection over and through space (Lundsteen, 2020, 2021, 2022).

In dealing with Urban Bordering, the Special Issue aims to shed a much-needed qualitative – and critical – light on the development of present-day jurisprudence and its increasing relation to borders and belonging in relation to urban space. The proposal is interdisciplinary both through its articulation in a common framework of literature on borders and bordering and comprising papers from different theoretical approaches. This literature is combined with recent literature from a variety of disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, criminology, and geography, scrutinising the political use of notions such as civility and the negotiation of what is considered appropriate behaviour or being out-of-place in urban space, be that in small or medium-sized towns and metropolis, and mainly how these are handled, managed, understood, narrated, policed and so on, in local society, favouring qualitative and often ethnographic studies that include the role of space in bordering practices.

Hope it is of your interest.

Martin Lundsteen
Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona

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