GEDT seminar: Adaptability of Border Twin Cities
Ekaterina Mikhailova, postdoctoral researcher in human geography working at the crossroads of Border Studies and Urban Studies, will present her work during the next GEDT seminar on
Wednesday the 24th of February from 12h15 to 13h45 (online).
The seminar will address twin cities – adjacent, mostly independently founded but deeply interdependent settlements on either side of an international or internal border – and will consist of two parts. In the first part Ekaterina will briefly present the two books from Routledge
Global Urban Studies series she co-edited (with Dr. John Garrard): (2018) and Twin Cities across Five Continents: Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders (to be published in summer 2021). Both edited volumes survey twin cities within and on the borders of countries across the world with a particular focus on case-studies underrepresented in the literature in English. The second volume which is