What is it about?
Sartre said that if Jews did not exist, anti-Semitism would have invented them. The article argues that if borders did not exist, Euroscepticism would have invented them and analyses the overproduction of borders - state, symbolic, cultural, etc - by the populist discourses. The article distinguishes three types of Europeanisation, through the utopianism of intellectual and political discourses, through political ethnic de-bordering as a means to promote a civic model of the nation and through de-teritorialization expressed in mobile citizenship. It distinguished two types of Euroscepticism - political, populist and crypto or identitarian.
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Why is it important?
Why scholars deconstruct borders in the era of an overbordered world? Why borders fascinate both elite and citizenry? Why Euroscepticism takes the form of bordering and Othering? The article proposes answers to these paradoxes and questions.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great challenge: I was inspired by the Euroborderescape consructivist 'paradigm', but also aspired at conceiving an alternative theoretical approach to bordering.
Anna Krasteva
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This page is a summary of: If Borders Did Not Exist, Euroscepticism Would Have Invented Them Or, on Post-Communist Re/De/Re/Bordering in Bulgaria, Geopolitics, November 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2017.1398142.
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