Cross-border Cooperation through Mass Media Representation. The Case of Russia-Estonia Border
Journal Title: EUROLIMES - Year 2016, Vol 21, Issue 21
Abstract
The aim of this article is to study the processes that lead to a more efficient cross-border cooperation by analysing how the mental barriers are constructed in the people's mind, through discursive practices and mediated images. For the complex relation between the EU and Russia it is important to understand how different factors and mechanisms influence the significance of borders, and can encourage or block the cooperation. By analysing the case study of Russia-Estonia border we will investigate in this study the relationship between the mediated images from border regions and the institutional practices in trans-border cooperation. The analysis will be conducted at the historical level following the impact of mediated history on the cross-border co-operation process, in connection with framing of current events. How does this create a space for cooperation or for perpetuation of stereotypes and conflicting positions? Do they create a degree of familiarity useful for the cross-border cooperation? What is the historical representation of the Other in the Estonian-Russian border region and how did this change in time? What traditions of cooperation exist and how was this constructed at the mass media level? What is the dominant representation of the borders, how are these influenced by history of cooperation or conflict? These are the few questions that will be answered in order to understand the impact of mass media in changing and framing the meaning of borders at EU’s external frontiers.
Authors and Affiliations
Maria GĂVĂNECI
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP352303
- DOI -
- Views 79
- Downloads 0
Eastern Partnership in the Context of EU-Russia Relations
Review of: Carlos E. Pacheco Amaral, Gaga Gabrichidze, Ioan Horga, Anatoliy Kruglashov, Ewa Latoszek, Marta Pachocka, Vasile Cucerescu (eds). EU Relations with Eastern Partnership: Strategy, Opportunities and Challenges....
Europeanisation in Bilateral Relations: The Cases of Minority Rights Policies in Eastern Europe in the Context of Enlargement Policy
The European Union faces multiple crises both internally and externally. The instruments through which it chooses to respond to these challenges shape the view that the partner countries have about its normative power. E...
1918–2018. Europe of Transformations – Introduction
The period of January 1918 to January 1919 is a milestone both for the history of Europe and of the world: if in January 1918 Woodrow Wilson presented, in front of American Congress, his famous ideas about international...
Discussing Minorities and Migration in the Current European Landscape
Review of: István Polgár, Ioan Horga, and Mircea Brie (eds), Migration and European Integration of Minorities. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017, 366p. ISBN 978-3-659-75971-0
Mobilité, réseaux et innovation. Nouveau paradigme dans la recherche sur la politique migratoire?
Cet article retrace les tendances qui ont dominé ces dernières années dans la recherche scientifique sur la politique migratoire. Il s’agit notamment des quatre tendances suivantes: (1) le passage de la perspective de mi...