Textured borders and analytical perspectives beyond the bordering approach

This lecture introduces the double panel and presents the bordertextures approach. For this purpose, in a first step, the further developments of the bordering turn in border studies will be presented (e.g. dimensionalization, diffusion) and the trend towards a conceptual texturalization of the border will be elaborated. Subsequently, current approaches in border studies are presented, which assume a textural ontology of the border and follow methodologies that have become known as "like-a-border-views". Building on this, in a second step, the lecture introduces the bordertextures approach and demonstrates its potential for cultural border research. For deepening, the relationship between bordertexturing as a research technique and bordertextures as a complex object of study will be discussed and problematized. The lecture concludes with principles of texture-oriented border research and sets connecting points for the following lectures of the panel.