Penser le détroit de Gibraltar pour figurer l’entre-deux

• Main Authors: Nora Mareï, Nacima Baron Yellès
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography 2013-10-01
• Series: Belgeo
• Subjects: strait; border; in-betweeness; discontinuity; integration; circulation
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/10632

The Strait of Gibraltar is a singular place in which numerous lines, thresholds, and demarcations superimpose and intersect. This strait marks also the border of three States and it represents one of the significant points of entry in Schengen space. Thus it articulates and separates political entities and it establishes a junction between distinct human, social, and religious universes. In this context its analysis appears therefore a heuristic example for border studies. The wealth and the diversity of this border which is at the same time a crossroad and a limit at different scales, involve to develop a reading grid of “in-betweenness” or interface. The modelling of borders and their evolution starting from the concept of in-betweenness are then discussed.