%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Perrier Bruslé, Laetitia
%T The border as a marker of territoriality : multi-scalar perspectives and multi-agent processes in a south american borderland region
%D 2013
%L fdi:010060605
%G ENG
%J Geopolitics
%@ 1465-0045
%K AMERIQUE DU SUD ; BOLIVIE ; PEROU ; BRESIL
%M ISI:000323409100005
%N 3
%P 584-611
%R 10.1080/14650045.2012.749242
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010060605
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2013/09/010060605.pdf
%V 18
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X The ambivalence of borders, as both bridges and barriers, is analysed in the South American borderlands, in the cross-border region between Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. The main hypothesis behind this work is that borders not only refer to the state but they are also a result of a social construction. Through their practices and narratives, the actors involved shape the border configuration. Through a multi-scalar approach (from a continental to a local level) and by collating practices and representations of various social agents (from continental organisations to the complexity of social groups on the border), I show that different territorial complexes converge on the border and I explain the spatial dialectic of the latter. Two ideas emerge as a conclusion to this study: the co-existence of territorialities that are not so exclusive and the key role played by the state despite the changes it undergoes.
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