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The Research Trend and Narrative Expandability of Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America—A Review Article: Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America

  • Journal of Popular Narrative
  • 2020, 26(2), pp.251-276
  • DOI : 10.18856/jpn.2020.26.2.008
  • Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : April 17, 2020
  • Accepted : May 14, 2020
  • Published : May 30, 2020

Kee-Hyun Ban 1

1중앙대학교 중앙사학연구소

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to critically read Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America to examine trends in border studies conducted so far in Europe and North America and to discuss the expandability and limitations of the narrative. It introduces a variety of case studies covering the borderlands of Europe and North America from ancient to modern times. It consists of a total of 10 chapters, in addition to the introduction chapter to clarify the purpose and definition of the collaboration and the short conclusion chapter on the prospects for the future of borderlands studies. This volume has some important implications for current borderland research in two main respects. First, it can introduce us we the areas and targets that the leading researchers from European and North American academia (usually the United States’) have paid attention to. It also examines the current status of borderland research and predicts whether it will be possible to study various border areas where exist in other regions (especially in Asia) based on accumulating academic achievements, as well as the possibility of expansion of so-called ‘globalization’. Second, it introduces the borderland as a conceptual space, beyond the border area as a physical space that is commonly thought of when it comes to ‘border’. Cases of “conceptual borderlands” can be applied to a number of topics ranging from an individual’s identities to the methods of governance, religions, economies, social institutions, families, labor issues, public health services and gender issues. There are, however, also some questions to be noted in the volume: the lack of consistent use of terminology, which can be considered general problems of collaboration studies; the fact that the authors still tend to understand borderlands within the imperialist discourse, perhaps because of their academic background is situated mainly in Europe and North America; the borderlands cases described here as the areas of conflict and struggle only. Nevertheless, the book is of significance in that it suggests a possibility of various borderlands studies and helps us to have better understanding of the current geopolitical situation imposed on the Korean Peninsula, which is located on the borderland between the continental and maritime powers.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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