Abstract
This short reflection on the keynote speech given by Henk van Houtum at the Annual Meeting of Finnish Geographers enhances discussion on bordering and border construction, both within the European Union (EU) and via the external border of the EU in the northeast, specifically the Finnish-Russian border. And it focuses attention upon the problem of Eurocentric geographies, and a dominant Western perspective of the rest of the world.
Highlights
This short reflection on the keynote speech given by Henk van Houtum at the Annual Meeting of Finnish Geographers enhances discussion on bordering and border construction, both within the European Union (EU) and via the external border of the EU in the northeast, the Finnish-Russian border
The Finnish-Russian border is an external border of the EU and is in many ways both mentally and physically a hard, separating border (Kolossov & Scott 2013)
The number of borders has increased as states begin to circumscribe their territory, even within a supposedly “borderless” European space
Summary
This short reflection on the keynote speech given by Henk van Houtum at the Annual Meeting of Finnish Geographers enhances discussion on bordering and border construction, both within the European Union (EU) and via the external border of the EU in the northeast, the Finnish-Russian border. Researching transborder leisure mobility, in the form of Russian second-home ownership in Finland, I deal directly with mobility across a physically demarcated and strictly controlled border. Studying mobility across the Finnish-Russian border, that for both Europeans and Russians requires a visa to cross it, provides a different perspective on borders and bordering in European space.
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