Activities
Seminar
Cross-border spaces: Culture, identity and border
- Date:
- 16.Apr.2008
- Time:
- 18:00 hrs
- Place:
- Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
- Organised by:
- Institute of Social Sciences and Administration (UACJ), CIDOB Foundation and Chihuahua College
16-18 April 2008
By examining what it is that border interstices express and contain (and which are articulated in a multiplicity of ways of experiencing and viewing identity and cultural matters from an everyday standpoint) we can find a space for coexisting (or not) in the cross-border space with "others".
Meanwhile, beyond the "imagined border" (where very often the condition of border is exhausted or simply disappears), emerges the raw, dramatised side of border realities, with their main functions: separating-differentiating-segregating-delimiting. This dual capacity of borders and their spaces, whether they are imagined or real, which gives them their condition of encounter and disagreement, of coexistence and intolerance, of peace or war - in short, shouldn't we ask ourselves, aren't there other ways of viewing and interpreting the identity and cultural matters in the cross-border space? This is the subject we will be examining today.
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