Editing Border (section)

== Border studies ==
There has been a renaissance in the study of borders starting with the end of the 1990s, partially from the creation of a counter-narrative to the discourse about the world becoming a borderless and deterritorialized place, which has accompanied theories about [[globalization]].<ref>{{cite journal |first1=D. |last1=Newman |first2=A. |last2=Paasi |title=Fences and neighbours in the post-modern world: boundary narratives in political geography |journal=[[Progress in Human Geography]] |volume=22 |number=2 |pages=186–207 |date=1998|doi=10.1191/030913298666039113 |s2cid=143392991 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first1=D. |last1=Newman |title=The lines that continue to separate us: Borders in our borderless world |journal=[[Progress in Human Geography]] |volume=30 |number=2 |pages=143–161 |date=2006|doi=10.1191/0309132506ph599xx |s2cid=143640667 }}</ref> Examples of recent initiatives are the Border Regions in Transition network of scholars,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://publicadmin.uvic.ca/brit_ix/index.htm |title=Border Regions in Transition IX Conference, ''North American and European Border Regions in Comparative Perspective: Markets, States and Border Communities'' |date=12–15 January 2008 |location=Victoria, BC Canada and Bellingham, WA United States}}</ref> the [[International Boundaries Research Unit]] at the [[University of Durham]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/ |title=International Boundaries Research Unit |website=[[University of Durham]] |access-date=2008-09-24 |archive-date=2009-10-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091018082015/http://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the [[Association for Borderlands Studies]] based in [[North America]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.absborderlands.org/ |title=Association for Borderland Studies |website=Association for Borderland Studies |access-date=2008-09-24 |archive-date=2011-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430053814/http://www.absborderlands.org/2JBS.html |url-status=live }}</ref> the African Borderlands Research Network<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aborne.org/ |title=ABORNE |website=ABORNE |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804155830/http://www.aborne.org/ |archive-date=4 August 2019}}</ref> and the founding of smaller border research centres at [[Nijmegen]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ru.nl/ncbr/ |title=Nijmegen Centre for Border Research |website=[[Radboud Universiteit]] |access-date=2008-09-24 |archive-date=2013-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809082538/http://www.ru.nl/ncbr/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Queen's University Belfast]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/cibr/ |title=Centre for International Borders Research (CIBR) |website=[[Queen's University Belfast]]}}</ref>