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International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy | 2011

Smuggling and small‐scale trade as part of informal economic practices

Bettina Bruns; Judith Miggelbrink; Kristine Müller

Purpose – Using small‐scale cross‐border trade and smuggling as an example of an informal practice carried out in many post‐socialist countries, the purpose of this paper is to explore which different meanings this activity possesses for the people being involved in it and in how far small‐scale cross‐border trade is being accepted and looked at by society. The authors hope to show the different connections between informal and formal activities and specificities of localities which people in the mentioned countries deploy when trying to secure their livelihood.Design/methodology/approach – The authors used a qualitative empirical research including group discussions with small‐scale traders and small entrepreneurs, expert interviews with representatives of the border authorities and systematic observations at border crossing points and open‐air markets at the Finnish‐Russian, Polish‐Ukrainian, Polish‐Belarusian and Ukrainina‐Romanian borders.Findings – The paper provides empirical insights about why peop...


Archive | 2013

The Subject and the Periphery: About Discourses, Loopings and Ascriptions

Frank Meyer; Judith Miggelbrink

This article aims to contribute a subject-centered perspective to the current debate on peripheralizing processes. Peripheries as well as peripheralizing processes have been repeatedly on the agenda of social sciences.


Geopolitics | 2004

Narrating Crises and Uncertainty, or, Placing Germany: Reflections on Theoretical Implications of the Standort DeutschlandDebate

Judith Miggelbrink; Marc Redepenning

This article deals with the mid-1990s Standort Deutschland debate, which is considered to be a distinct semantic means for the reproduction of the nation-state. This debate serves as a starting point for further theorising what we will call spatial semantics. In addition, but also in difference to research focusing too narrowly on (re)organisational aspects of economic state crises, we propose a view that addresses the role and function of space-related terms within mass-media communication. Against the fundamental background of Luhmanns version of systems theory, certain elements from banal nationalism, critical geopolitics and the place-concept in humanistic geography are revised to grasp the capability of spatial semantics to transform uncertainty of ‘the world we live in’ into seemingly ‘natural’ certainties. This elaboration is underpinned by a short empirical illustration that catches the main contents of the above mentioned debate by scrutinising the articles on the Standort Deutschland in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit between 1995 and 1999.


Geopolitics | 2017

Special Section Introduction – Sovereignty Contested: Theory and Practice in Borderlands

Kristine Beurskens; Judith Miggelbrink

This thematic section is dedicated to the discussion of conceptual and practiceinspired approaches to the entanglement of sovereignty and borders. The production of this thematic section is accompanied by an astonishing amount of uprising public debates on sovereignty: the so-called ‘Brexit’, the so-called ‘Muslim ban’, debates about stricter border controls, extraterritorial detentions camps and more restrictive asylum policies in the run-up to elections in some European countries indicate that sovereignty itself has become a topic of public concern. And it is not just sovereignty that concerns people and politicians, but a perceived loss of sovereignty by the nation-state and a necessity to regain and strengthen it. The newly sparked interest in sovereignty revolves around issues of security, border and migration control, access to resources and social security systems as well as questions of finance. Though there has always been a good amount of scepticism regarding security issues versus open borders, the ongoing conflicts in the Global South and the related so-called refugee crisis have provoked new waves of sovereignty claims. In Europe, for instance, it led to calls not only for a temporal suspension of the Schengen border code but also for a return to border regimes within the exclusive control of the respective state, revealing that European integration is not a onedirectional process. Besides recent calls for a strengthening of the national scale, Europeanization is increasingly accompanied by notions of securitization, outreaching even beyond European territories. Also in Northern America, discussions around stricter state borders and even walls have gotten louder over the past months. These developments have provoked protests in the institutional as well as in the public sphere. In the Arctic Region, climate change and related shifts in the access to resources have furred disputes on sovereignty issues not only among the involved states, the indigenous peoples are also increasingly rising up to fight for the recognition of their collective rights, including related territorial claims. In the Global South, the arenas of continued disputes around sovereignty are encompassed by multifaceted contexts of decolonisation. Specifically in face of the widespread geopolitical


Raumforschung Und Raumordnung | 2015

Subjektivität und Kausalität in der Migration(sforschung) – Annäherungen an Rationalisierungen von Migrationsentscheidungen in schrumpfenden Regionen

Frank Meyer; Judith Miggelbrink

ZusammenfassungInnerhalb der kürzlich belebten Peripherisierungsdebatte und basierend auf qualitativen Forschungen zu Lebenswirklichkeiten in peripheren Räumen entstanden Forderungen, nicht nur sozialstrukturelle Aspekte zur Analyse des Zustandekommens räumlicher Ungleichheiten heranzuziehen, sondern auch die Wirkungen von Prozessen diskursiver Zuschreibungen in Betracht zu ziehen. Anhand erster empirischer Forschungsergebnisse des Projekts „Diskurs und Praktiken in schrumpfenden Regionen – Eine Untersuchung zur subjektiven Relevanz von Schrumpfungsdiskursen am Beispiel des Landkreises Altenburger Land“ aus einer Auswahl von Interviews im Altenburger Land (Thüringen) verdeutlichen wir, inwieweit Konzepten wie „Kulturförderung“ und „Infrastrukturförderung“ von Akteuren der Politik, Verwaltung und des sozialen Bereiches hinsichtlich der Wanderungsentscheidungen von Bürgern kausale Wirkungen zugeschrieben werden. Darüber hinaus beleuchten wir deren Rationalisierungen, aber auch die explizit subjektiven Aspekte von Wanderungen, die diesen Rationalisierungen empirisch widersprechen. Wir schließen mit einer Zusammenfassung von Unsicherheiten, die in der Beforschung von Migration ebenso auftreten wie im politisch-praktischen Umgang mit Migrationsentscheidungen.AbstractBased on qualitative research on livescapes in peripheralized regions, claims have surfaced within the recently rejuvenated debate on peripheralization to not only focus on socio-structural aspects of spatial disparities, but also to consider the effects of discursive ascriptions. Using early findings from the research project “Discourse and practices in shrinking regions. An analysis of the subjective relevance of shrinkage discourses using the example of the municipality of Altenburger Land”, we demonstrate how different professionals conceptualize alleged causal relations between financial subsidies for “culture” or “infrastructure” and migration-related decisions. Furthermore, we illuminate their rationalizations of these decisions and take also the subjective aspects of migrations that may contradict their views into consideration. We conclude our chapter with a summary of the important uncertainties in the research of migration as well as regarding the political practice of dealing with migration-related decisions.


Archive | 2015

Lost in Complexity? Researching the Role of Socio-Spatial Ascriptions in the Process of Peripheralization

Judith Miggelbrink; Frank Meyer

In our chapter, we aim to discuss a number of methodological and conceptual decisions that we necessarily had (and still have) to take in a case study on peripheralization. In a project on ‘Discourse and practices in shrinking regions’, we raise the question of how discourses of shrinkage, peripheralization and (spatial) marginalization1 become part of people’s actual lives. Basically, this includes the question of how a discourse can become part of individual interpretation and appropriation of social reality, individual action and decision-making, and how this can be investigated without (unwillingly) reifying hegemonic discourses and the socio-spatial realities they produce. Researchers involved in empirical research, of course, know the pitfalls that emerge from being embedded in social practice. Researchers have increasingly become aware of situated knowledge and positionalities (Haraway 1991, Merrifield 1995, Bondi 1997, Tadaki et al. 2011), and feminist and critical scholars in particular have emphasized the necessity of being reflexive and, therefore, have called for ‘transparent reflexivity’ (Rose 1997: 311). Keeping in mind this performative understanding of research as social practice, we develop a circular understanding of peripheralization that culminates in a heuristic model. Based on this, in the main section we discuss some findings from our empirical study that demonstrate the complexity of interaction in research. This section is followed by a discussion on decisions and conditions of researching peripheralization.


Archive | 2010

Am Ostrand des „wettbewerbsfähigsten Wirtschaftsraums der Welt“. (Raum-)Theoretische Überlegungen zur Produktion der EU-Außengrenze als Territorialisierungs- und Skalenstrategie

Bernd Belina; Judith Miggelbrink

Die empirische Untersuchung der „Grenze als Ressource“ am ostlichen Rand der EU setzt die Existenz und Wirkung territorialer Grenzen voraus, sowohl nationaler als auch die der EU. Indem sie diese Grenzen uberqueren, konnen Kleinhandler bzw. Schmuggler sie als Einkommensquelle nutzen, was ihren Alltag weitgehend (mit-)strukturieren kann. In diesem Beitrag diskutieren wir aus (raum-)theoretischer Perspektive, aus welchen Formen der Raumproduktion diese Grenze resultiert, und welche Interessen und Strategien seitens der EU diesen Formen zugrunde liegen. Im Kern geht es dabei um das Ziel, formuliert in der Lissabon-Strategie im Jahr 2000, die EU zum „wettbewerbsfahigsten und dynamischsten (…) Wirtschaftsraum in der Welt“ (Europaischer Rat 2000) zu machen und um die mit dieser Strategie verbundenen Folgen, mit denen unter dem Label der ‚Sicherheit’ umgegangen wird.


Archive | 2018

(Un-)Informed Consent? Regulating and Managing Fieldwork Encounters in Practice

Dorit Happ; Frank Meyer; Judith Miggelbrink; Kristine Beurskens

Interactive methods of qualitative social research such as interviews bear the possibility that the mere fact of researchers visibly conducting research may influence the behaviour e.g. of respondents. This empirically proven aspect of interviews, group discussions and observations leads to problems for the current practice of procedural ethics that call for a specific form of informed consent. We, in contrast, illuminate the complex relationships researchers and respondents engage in. Based on these insights, we highlight the need for consciously managing one’s identity in the course of fieldwork. Using examples from our own empirical work, we elaborate on the delicate balance between this essential impression management and the need to avoid deception which would compromise our research from an ethical point of view.


Archive | 2018

Der Datenträger im Brillenetui. Feldforschung in autoritären Staaten

Dorit Happ; Bettina Bruns; Judith Miggelbrink

Feldforschung in autoritaren Staaten birgt ein Risiko fur Forscher/innen als auch fur Beforschte. Das autoritare System in Belarus ist gekennzeichnet durch Omniprasenz der staatlichen Kontrollorgane, Marginalisierung oppositioneller Akteure und der unabhangigen Presse. Gleichzeitig stehen die belarussischen Burger in einer hohen Abhangigkeit zum Staat. Forschende tragen dementsprechend eine Verantwortung gegenuber den Teilnehmern/Teilnehmerinnen der Feldforschung, um sie vor negativen Konsequenzen durch ihre Teilnahme zu schutzen muss ihre Anonymitat garantiert werden. Der Schutz der Interviewpartner/innen ist hier der Erhebung der Daten vorrangig. Forscher/innen in autoritaren System mussen zudem pragmatische Fragen zur Einreise und der Sicherung der erhobenen Daten klaren. Vor Ort konnen sie mit wirklichen aber auch mit paranoiden Momenten der staatlichen Kontrolle und Verfolgung und dem Gefuhl der Kriminalisierung seines/ihres Forschungsvorhabens konfrontiert werden. Zur Reflektion und Aufarbeitung empfiehlt sich die Fuhrung eines Forschungstagebuches und die Zusammenarbeit mit lokalen Mitarbeitern/Mitarbeiterinnen.


Archive | 2018

Ins Feld und zurück: Begegnen, sich positionieren, entscheiden

Kristine Beurskens; Judith Miggelbrink; Frank Meyer

Das vorliegende Buch „Ins Feld und zuruck“ thematisiert jene Phanomene der Feldforschung, die in Einfuhrungen in die Methoden sozialgeographischer Forschung wenig beleuchtet werden. Dabei wirft es vor allem Fragen auf, die sich aus der Subjektivitat der Forschenden und ihrer Beziehung zu den Beforschten ergeben, und versucht Antworten zu geben, die auf konkreten Forschungserfahrungen aufbauen. Ausgangspunkt sind oftmals sehr personliche und als besonders erinnerungswurdig erlebte Begebenheiten aus Feldforschungsaufenthalten. Das Buch nimmt aber nicht nur den eigentlichen Aufenthalt im Feld in den Blick, sondern den Prozess der Vorbereitung, Entwicklung, Auswertung und Nachbereitung empirischen Forschens sowie deren wechselseitige Verflechtung. Forschende werden als Subjekte und Akteure in einem sozialen Feld verstanden, die zahlreiche grundlegende Entscheidungen von der Formulierung der Forschungsfrage, uber die Erhebung und Auswertung bis hin zur Verbreitung der Ergebnisse treffen mussen, selbst aber immer auch begrenzt sind in ihren (zeitlichen, institutionellen, finanziellen) Moglichkeiten, in Routinen und Zwange eingebunden sind.

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Annika Mattissek

Dresden University of Technology

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Georg Glasze

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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