Description du projet
La fiction pour comprendre le rôle des frontières européennes
Alors que l’Europe moderne se caractérise par son ouverture et sa collaboration, les frontières soulignent toujours ses différentes identités culturelles. Les régions frontalières présentent souvent des opportunités uniques pour étudier comment les frontières affectent les identités et le sentiment d’appartenance des citoyens. Le projet REEL BORDERS, financé par l’UE, recourra au film de fiction pour étudier et expliquer comment les frontières sont perçues et représentées par les habitants de ces régions. Il pourrait proposer une vision unique de la manière dont les frontières peuvent affecter les conflits, la migration et la géopolitique, et expliquer comment le film peut servir à façonner la perception des frontières territoriales. L’objectif consiste à améliorer notre compréhension des frontières, en faisant progresser les études culturelles et les utilisations du film de fiction en Europe et au-delà.
Objectif
REEL BORDERS aims to bring fiction film to the centre of discussions about borders and belonging. As different institutions and actors increasingly turn to fiction film to circulate messages about borders, the study looks at how borders and fiction film have been related since the early 20th century. Border regimes are intimately intertwined with cultural imaginations and representations of borders and their insiders and outsiders. This project is the first to comprehensively investigate this relation across different borderlands and for the various actors involved. While grounded in the cultural studies tradition, it originally combines insights from representations research, film theory, popular geopolitics, border studies and migration studies.
The main questions to be addressed are: What are the cultural imaginations of borders and its insiders and outsiders found in fiction film? How do different societal actors use fiction film to construct, contest, or experience territorial borders? These questions will be answered by looking at 3 groups of actors (institutions, creatives, and borderlanders) at 3 borderland cases: Ireland-UK, Turkey-Syria, and the Ceuta and Melilla exclaves. The study will combine archival work with media studies methods (production, content and reception analysis) and participatory filmmaking where borderlanders will make their own short films.
REEL BORDERS will have a threefold impact. Empirically, it puts film firmly on the map of research on borders, conflict and migration, while expanding the horizon both in terms of historical depth and geographical width. Methodologically, it will include the most ambitious participatory film study to date. Theoretically, the study will establish new conceptual understandings of borders and belonging in cultural studies and beyond.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitution d’accueil
1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgique