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This is the final published version of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 2021.
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Author(s): Nicolini M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: STALS (Sant'Anna Legal Studies)
Year: 2021
Pages: 1-19
Online publication date: 03/03/2021
Acceptance date: 15/02/2021
Date deposited: 03/02/2022
ISSN (electronic): 1974-5656
Publisher: Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
URL: http://www.stals.santannapisa.it/sites/default/files/stals_nicolini_2021.pdf
Notes: The paper engages in a cross-disciplinary examination of the concept of borders. After considering its several connotations in law, geography, and linguistics, it focuses on their interrelations with territory. It then considers how their meaning has evolved over time, thus reflecting the cognitive way whereby political power has tried to superimpose on them its own conception on the world. It then discusses the impact of cross-disciplinary research on comparative-law taxonomies (such as territorial constitution and litigation, territorial demarcation, and alteration), as well of how non-legal variables have some bearing on the operational rule of bordering processes.
