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25 mars 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.6727
- isbn: 9782367813578
- eisbn: 9782367814223
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Markus Arnold et al., « Introduction », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.6727
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Borders, whether physical, geopolitical, social, or cultural, are ontologically ambivalent. Both ‘barriers and bridges’, they are conceived of as dividing lines between two distinct elements, the inside and the outside, belonging and unbelonging, normative and subversive practices, ‘we’ and ‘they’—the Other, the foreigner. They are inner and outer margins that determine categories and differences; they delineate the contours of individual and collective identities—whether territorial, nationa...