Policymaking and Political Geography: Engaging EU Geopolitics in Practice

The chapter queries the possibilities for “constructive critical geopolitics” (Bachmann and Moisio in, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38:251–268, 2020) in our engagements with policymakers and their adoption of geographical concepts. With a focus on the European Union’s self-declared ‘geopolitical turn’, the chapter offers three vignettes that illustrate some of the challenges of “constructively” engaging with institutional geographical imaginations, beyond mere deconstruction and critique

Chapter 6 Textures of urban fears

We will discuss in detail the two exhibitions and their vicissitudes in the paragraphs to come, focusing on the emotional public reactions they both evoked, albeit to different degrees

The 'Border within' : inhabiting the border in Trieste

In this paper we look to the Italian border city of Trieste—at various points in its past, a cosmopolitan port, Austria's urbs europeissima, but also a battleground for competing understandings of territoriality, identity, and belonging and a paragon of the violent application of an ethnoterritorial logic to a plurinational, plurilingual urban context; a paragon of the violence of modern borders. At the same time—and precisely by virtue of its border condition—Trieste has often found itself within the cracks of European modernity, rendering it a unique site for the rearticulation and reappropriation of that which Walter Mignolo terms “global designs”. In our analysis, we ask what lessons the experience of a city like Trieste in ‘inhabiting the border’ can hold for Mignolo's notion of “border thinking” and for the elaboration of alternative geopolitical imaginaries.22 page(s

Chapter 6 Textures of urban fears

We will discuss in detail the two exhibitions and their vicissitudes in the paragraphs to come, focusing on the emotional public reactions they both evoked, albeit to different degrees

Focalizing new-Fascism

In our first episode, Luiza Bialasiewicz, a professor of European Governance at the University of Amsterdam, and Sabrina Stallone, a doctoral student at the University of Bern, tell the inside story of researching, writing, and publishing their article, “Focalizing new-Fascism: Right politics and integralisms in contemporary Italy.