TY - JOUR AU - Hannonen, Olga PY - 2017/06/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Bordering the “other”: the case of the Finnish-Russian border JF - Fennia - International Journal of Geography JA - Fennia VL - 195 IS - 1 SE - Reflections DO - 10.11143/fennia.63674 UR - https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/63674 SP - 113-117 AB - <p>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.</p> ER -