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Aus den Verlagsangaben: „La frontière linguistique en Belgique et dans le Nord de la France of Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916). Historiography of the Origin of a Controversy. Since the publication of "La frontière linguistique en Belgique et dans le Nord de la France (1896–1898)", the Belgian study of the historical origin of the demarcation between Germanic and Romance people cannot be written without referring to this fundamental work. The author, Godefroid Kurth contributed in shaping a historical object in regards to its methodological, chronological and topographical aspects. This work takes place in a national as well as European continuum. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the definition of a national identity is conceived according to criteria considered as scientific. In this configuration, the linguistic and racial elements were strongly mobilized. Our ambition with this paper is to go back to the redaction context of Kurth’s book, and thereby understand the sources of the historical but also topographical issue of the Linguistic Frontier in Belgium.“

Abstract: „The mediatised public sphere in Europe seems to be put at risk by the growing importance attached to commercial values in the Media. At the same time, the Westphalian framework of political publicity is said to be diminishing in scale due to globalisation. However, both affirmations are not necessarily true in cross-border metropolitan regions. As suggested in this paper, based on a quantitative and a qualitative analysis of a free daily publication located in the cross-border urban region of Luxembourg, commercial media can help to reconfigure a neo-Westphalian and territorial public sphere made of linear and network-like borders. It is not so much the source of income of the media and the functional dynamics of international urban areas which determine the future of the mediatised public sphere and its territorial background in borderlands Europe but the values of plural reporters in a changing economic and cultural context.“

Abstract: „Das Phänomen der Gentrifizierung hat 1964 durch einen Beitrag der britischen Soziologin Glass Eingang in die Forschung gefunden. Lange Zeit wurden die Prozesse ausschließlich im urbanen Kontext untersucht. Erst seit den 1990er Jahren kann auch in der ländlichen Raumforschung in Nordamerika und Großbritannien ein wachsendes Interesse festgestellt werden (Phillips 2009). Ermann (2011) verweist darauf, dass auch in den ländlichen Räumen Deutschlands bereits seit langer Zeit Phänomene der Gentrifizierung beobachtet werden können, die Forschung jedoch nach wie vor auf innenstadtnahe Wohnquartiere beschränkt bleibt. Mit der vorliegenden Untersuchung soll daher ein Beitrag zur rural gentrificationForschung in Deutschland geleistet werden. Im Fokus stehen hierbei Wohnsitz migranten mit Arbeitsplatz in Luxemburg, die zumeist aus finanziellen Erwägungen in ländlichen Siedlungen an der Obermosel ansässig werden. Durch die sich seit rund zwei Jahrzehnten intensivierende Zuwanderung haben sich diese Dörfer zu Wachstumskernen in einer insgesamt betrachtet schrumpfenden Region entwickelt; sie unterliegen Transformationsprozessen, die sich auf vielfältige Weise in der Konstitution der Dorfgemeinschaft und der materiellen Dorfstruktur niederschlagen. Ziel der Analyse ist es, die Konsequenzen dieser Migration zu analysieren und zu prüfen, ob sie als rural gentrification klassifiziert werden können. Grundlage für die Untersuchung sind Expertengespräche sowie eine standardisierte, komparativ angelegte Befragung alteingesessener Dorfbewohner und zugezogener Luxemburger Residenten. Die Forschungsbefunde zeigen, dass die Charakteristika der rural gentrification teils in sehr ausgeprägter Form beobachtet werden können. Es werden zwar nicht alle Kriterien idealtypisch erfüllt, aber dieser Umstand erscheint wiederum repräsentativ für den bisherigen Stand der Forschung, da die vorliegenden Studien für den ländlichen Raum eine weitaus größere Bandbreite an Erscheinungsformen der Gentrifizierung aufgedeckt haben als dies im urbanen Kontext der Fall ist (Smith 2011; Guimond u. Simard 2010). The phenomenon of gentrification found his way into research in 1964 by a contribution of the British sociologist Glass. For a long time gentrification processes were examined exclusively in the urban context. It is only since the 1990s that a growing interest can be observed in rural research in North America and the UK (Phillips 2009). Ermann (2011) points to the fact that phenomena of gentrification can also be perceived in the rural areas of Germany, but that research is still restricted to urban residential areas. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to contribute to rural gentrification research in Germany. The focus is on residential migrants with employment in Luxembourg, which move to rural settlements at the Upper Moselle, mainly for financial reasons. This type of immigration is intensifying for around two decades. Thus, the attracting villages develop to growth centres in an overall shrinking region. The villages are subject to transformation processes that are reflected in a variety of ways in the constitution of the village community as well as in the material village structure. The aim of the study is to analyze the consequences of the migration and to examine whether it can be classified as rural gentrification. The analysis is based on expert discussions and a standardized, comparative survey of long-established villagers and newly moved Luxembourg residents. The research findings show that the characteristics of rural gentrification can be observed in a very pronounced form. Although not all criteria are ideal-type, this fact appears again representative for the current state of research. Existing studies have revealed a much wider range of manifestations of gentrification in rural areas than in the urban context (Smith 2011; Guimond u. Simard 2010).“

Abstract: „This paper analyses feelings of socio-cultural proximity and distance with a specific focus on the tourist experience in cross-border shopping and everyday life practices in border regions. We examined shopping practices of Dutch border crossers who visit the German town Kleve in the Dutch–German border region. This particular border context has allowed us not only to reflect on a multidimensional approach towards socio-cultural proximity and distance, but also to examine how these different dimensions express themselves in the tourist experience when it comes to people and places that are geographically ‘close’ but assumingly socially and culturally ‘distant’ from home. Although some differences prompted feelings of discomfort, in particular, differences in social engagement, feelings of comfort stand out in our analysis of cross-border shopping tourism. Furthermore, our study shows that shopping tourism and exoticism, on the one hand, and everyday routines and the mundane, on the other hand, are closely intertwined in the lives of people living in a border region, resulting in a fluid interpretation of the exotic and the mundane in the cross-border context.“

Abstract: „The Wire of Death as a Border Guard. An Unknown Episode of the Great War 1914–1918 along the Dutch–Belgian Frontier For four long years the First World War changed the relations between the Kingdom of The Netherlands and the Kingdom of Belgium, with the former remaining neutral in the conflict while the latter became a theatre of particularly bloody hostilities. In the province of North Brabant, which was part of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, at a small distance from border with the Kingdom of Belgium there lies a locality bearing the double name of Baarle–Hertog and Baarle–Nassau – a Dutch–Belgian jigsaw composed of 30 enclaves. The German armies decided not to attack the Belgian enclaves since they could not do so without violating the neutrality of the Dutch. In order to prevent the inflow into The Netherlands of volunteers who could come to the aid of the army defending itself in the Yzer river valley, in January 1915 the German troops embarked upon setting up networks of barbed wire along the entire Belgian border (450 kms long) from the Zwin inlet in Knokke to the suburbs of Aix–la–Chapelle. The unique frontier encircling the Belgian enclaves was composed of electric barbed wire known as the „Wire of Death”, which took the lives of numerous victims and was the source of the tragic plight of all thus separated families. The border in question also divided small towns and villages, sometimes in half. The presented text discusses several such instances. The author concentrated predominantly on the functioning of the lethal frontier and the life of people residing on both its sides. He also described the history of Baarle–Hertog, a little– known fragment of free Belgium within Dutch Branat, and its role in obtaining information about the plans and activity of the German occupant.“