BorderArt(E)Scapes. Contemporary Art, Anthropology, and Borderscapes: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the 2000s, Reading Contemporaneity and Experimenting with New Research Practices

The Special Issue is part of the project BorderArt(E)Scapes. Contemporary Art, Anthropology, and Borderscapes: from the late nineteenth century to the 2000s, reading contemporaneity and experimenting with new research practices, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. The project, officially started in October 2023 and developed by five universities (Florence, Bergamo, Siena, Trento, and Aosta), aims at exploring the complex issue of borders through different yet neighboring disciplines, from art history to anthropology, from geography and geopolitics to literature, trying to propose new methodologies and research practices. Not limiting itself to the project’s experiences, the Special Issue amplifies this discussion and moves toward a de/re/territorialization of the border(land) concept in order to expand and highlight its practical potentialities by means of trans-disciplinary dialogues based on art-historical, anthropological, geographical, artistic, and educational perspectives.