Lab member Jussi P. Laine has contributed to a new article published in the journal Geopolitics, as part of a special Geopolitical Forum featuring thirteen scholars working on border heritage across the world.
Titled “Geopolitics and Memorialisation of Borders,” the forum explores how border heritage sites contribute to geopolitical bordering by producing myths of division and difference that serve nation-states and uphold hegemonic narratives. It draws attention to the multiplicity of memory and spatial order, where different ideas of national heritage and everyday memorialisation can clash or coincide. The forum argues that such memoryscapes are not fixed or linear but shaped by overlapping temporalities and contested meanings. These spaces can disrupt dominant narratives and invite wider conversations about the politics of border heritage, including how memorialisation may become a site of resistance, encounter, and hope.
Read the full article here.