Rajayhteistyö identiteettityönä: Suomen ja Ruotsin rajan ylittävät yhteistyöprojektit paikallisten asukkaiden kokemana ja kertomana.
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Prokkola, Eeva-Kaisa, kirjoittaja.
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Journal article
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Finnish
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Alue ja ympäristö. - ISSN 1235-4554. - Helsinki : Alue- ja Ympäristötutkimuksen Seura ry. - 39 (2010) : 1 s. 15-26
Alue ja Ympäristö. - Alue- ja ympäristötutkimuksen seura. - ISSN 2242-3451. - 39 (2010) : 1, s.15-26 - Seria:
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Cross-border cooperation is normally understood as an expression of how increasing mobility and transnational partnership can challenge borders and act as a catalyst for the emergence of crossborder identities, particularly in the European Union's internal border regions. In this article, cross-border cooperation is examined from the perspective of local people who carry out and experience cooperation in their everyday lives. Local cooperation is approached as identity work, through which individuals can negotiate their spatial identity. The case study concerns the Finnish-Swedish border, particularly the rural border communities where people's experiences of the border and crossborder cooperation are examined using a narrative interview method. The method is well suited to the study of borders and identities because it is sensitive to particular everyday situations in which border discourses are negotiated and because it encourages researcher to look at the context-bound characters of borders and cross-border interaction. Moreover, the examination of individual border narratives can help border scholars to be more critical when conceptualizing and classifying borders and identities. Cross-border interaction and cooperation can have rather different manifestations in different contexts and a border region is an arena for multiple spatial identities.
