Creating spaces for cooperation: Crossing borders and boundaries before and after brexit
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In: Irish Geography, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2019, p. 127-135.
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T1 - Creating spaces for cooperation
T2 - Crossing borders and boundaries before and after brexit
AU - Walsh, Cormac
AU - Rafferty, Gavan
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Brexit is undoubtedly a geographical question and one with profound implications for the UK, Ireland, Europe and, perhaps most critically, North-South relations on the island of Ireland. The prospect of a hard border places at risk the goodwill and ease of access that have provided the basis for cross-border cooperation over the last two decades (Hayward, 2017). In the period since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA), the island of Ireland has slowly emerged as a coherent functional space with extensive effort gone into the development of shared cross-border spaces for cooperation at community, local authority, regional and inter-jurisdictional levels (Coakley and O’Dowd, 2007; Walsh, 2015; Rafferty and Blair, this issue). Prevalent zero-sum mentalities of competing territorial claims and mutually exclusive socio-spatial imaginaries have slowly given way to new spatial logics, focussed on the island of Ireland and/or cross-border region as a functional space (O’Dowd and McCall, 2008, 86; McCall, 2011).
AB - Brexit is undoubtedly a geographical question and one with profound implications for the UK, Ireland, Europe and, perhaps most critically, North-South relations on the island of Ireland. The prospect of a hard border places at risk the goodwill and ease of access that have provided the basis for cross-border cooperation over the last two decades (Hayward, 2017). In the period since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA), the island of Ireland has slowly emerged as a coherent functional space with extensive effort gone into the development of shared cross-border spaces for cooperation at community, local authority, regional and inter-jurisdictional levels (Coakley and O’Dowd, 2007; Walsh, 2015; Rafferty and Blair, this issue). Prevalent zero-sum mentalities of competing territorial claims and mutually exclusive socio-spatial imaginaries have slowly given way to new spatial logics, focussed on the island of Ireland and/or cross-border region as a functional space (O’Dowd and McCall, 2008, 86; McCall, 2011).
KW - Geography
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084194407&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2014/igj.v52i2.1397
DO - 10.2014/igj.v52i2.1397
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85084194407
VL - 52
SP - 127
EP - 135
JO - Irish Geography
JF - Irish Geography
SN - 0075-0778
IS - 2
ER -