Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) through the Translating Cultures Programme [grant reference AH/L006936/1]

Case Study 3 Presentation

Update on Fieldwork&

Reflections on Borders

Drs. Julien Danero Iglesias and Robert Gibb (University of Glasgow)

Update: Romania

Selecting and contacting institutions and organisations

First meetings with NGOs

Interviews and observation at state institutions

Next steps

+ Learning Russian

Update: Bulgaria

Learning Bulgarian

Selecting and contacting organisations and institutions

First meetings with NGOs and state institutions

Observation

Next steps

Borders

1. Definitions

2. Contexts

3. Empirical Questions

Questions

1. ‘Borders’ = ?

2.A ‘political economy’ of borders = ?

3.Underlying model of society = ?

4.Notion of scales = ?