Introduction to Special Issue: Creating Spaces for Cooperation: Crossing Borders and Boundaries before and after Brexit

Authors

  • Cormac Walsh University of Hamburg
  • Gavan Rafferty Ulster University, Belfast

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55650/igj.2019.1397

Abstract

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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).

 

Author Biographies

Cormac Walsh, University of Hamburg

Department of Integrative Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg

Gavan Rafferty, Ulster University, Belfast

Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment, 

Jordanstown Campus, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB.

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Published

2020-04-29

How to Cite

Walsh, C., & Rafferty, G. (2020). Introduction to Special Issue: Creating Spaces for Cooperation: Crossing Borders and Boundaries before and after Brexit. Irish Geography, 52(2), 127–135. https://doi.org/10.55650/igj.2019.1397

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