Borderology [electronic resource] : Spatial Perspective, Theoretical and Practical / edited by Jan Selmer Methi, Basia Nikiforova.

Part 1: Borderology as a project for the future -- Borderology and civilization -- "Alphabet" of borderology: The question of what is enlightenment?- The phenomenon of the border and the pandemic -- The boundaries of humanity -- European borders in migration and pandemic times: Paradigmatic changes -- Part 2: Philosophical and anthropological dimensions of the pandemic crisis -- Turning to face the non-human: New strategic ways to think about the pandemic -- Existential and cultural aspect of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The prospect of forming new cultural boundaries and the phenomenon of mood -- The border between hierarchical and network approaches to researching the coronavirus pandemic -- Part 3: Space and borders in the pandemic context -- How does the pandemic invalidate the sociological definition of the city?- New economic and cultural biases of strategic development in Lithuanian-Polish cross-border functional area under the impact of pandemic and migrations -- The fourteen critical factors for regional development in borderlands: Focusing on European Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) areas -- Portuguese perceptions on borders - From the escape path to the sanitarian imposition 1950-2020 -- The migrants, the 'Stayers', and the new borderlands in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit -- Between humanitarianism and security - The events at the Polish-Belarusian border -- Part 4: The contours of a new (post) pandemic reality -- Self-construction in the world web and the borders of freedom in pandemic times -- Public realm, privacy and the scholars' life-world - Reloaded. An unintentional voyeur in a Russian kitchen -- Pandemic, borders and new technology - Distance Breaking Media (DBM) -- Communication-contacts-dialogue: The transformation of education during the pandemic -- Education in the time of a pandemic: Towards a hermeneutics of closed borders and travel bans.

This book develops and establishes knowledge about borderology in the border zone between different countries, cultures, and climatic environment. The content of border and border zone has, during our research, changed from being a physical border between states to different borders and border zones which also include social and mental borders. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the concept even more. The expressions "lockdown" and "social distance" indicate such borders that we, a short time ago, had largely not considered in our everyday life. Not only states closed their borders, regions inside a country, and even borders within families were established. "Illegally" passing these borders could crate strong reactions both from the nature by a disease or by the authorities with fees. The pandemic has not only challenged our understanding of borders and border zones, but it has also challenged our understanding of human rights and especially our understanding of what freedom is.