As suggested by the conference’s subtitle, “Unpacking the innovative potential of transbordering practices, imaginaries and policies”, the conference aims to investigate how borderscapes are reacting to the widespread return of re-bordering practices, enacting innovative forms of resilience and transbordering practices.
Our team organised two thematic sessions, dedicated to analysing Italian borderscapes after 2020. These were the occasion to present and discuss with the Border Studies community preliminary findings, and explore points of contact with related research projects.
Session 01: Italian borderscapes after 2020. Trans/Cross-bordering cooperation, governance, and planning tools
Chair: Ingrid Kofler
Mapping (Italian) borderscapes ‘in motion’. Tangible and intangible dimensions of an entangled crisis
Alice Buoli (Politecnico di Milano)
Changing governance in EU border regions? The case of Italian Alpine territories
Raffaella Coletti (CNR-ISSIRFA)
Territorialising cross-border development policies: challenges and opportunities in ALCOTRA programme
Marco Del Fiore & Loris Servillo (Politecnico di Torino)
Crises at the French-Italian border: reconfiguration of Ventimiglia’s camps and border management since the midst of the COVID pandemic
Silvia Aru & Lorenzo Mauloni (University of Turin)
The border as a ‘scene’: crisis and controversies at the EU internal borders
Anna Casaglia & Alizée Dauchy (University of Trento)
Session 02: Italian borderscapes after 2020. Trans/Cross-bordering cooperation, governance, and planning tools
Chair: Alice Buoli
Exploring transbordering practices in the Alps: a case study of small rural communities
Ingrid Kofler (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Minority narratives on borders and the European Union in times of crises
Johanna Mitterhofer, Alice Engl & Marcus Nicolson (Eurac Research)
Impact and responses to the current polycrisis in cross-border mountain regions: the case of the Aosta Valley
Isabella Traeger (Politecnico di Milano)
Videographic transborder practices: scales of intimate proximity to the Italo/Swiss border landscape
Silvia Cipelletti (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
Into the woods: imaginaries between freedom and control at the Italian border
Nicoletta Grillo (University of Hasselt)
