F5: Security perceptions at the border triangle(s) between Poland and Lithuania

Dr. Nadja Douglas (ZOiS)

This research project engages with security perceptions in the border regions between Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and the Russian exclave, Kaliningrad oblast (around the so-called Suwalki corridor). Its aim is to examine discoursive ideas and perceptions of in:security in the local context. With the help of audiovisual methods of documentation expert interviews have been conducted in Vilnius and Warsaw as well as observations on the ground in the Polish border region of Podlachia. The analysis/evaluation of videographic footage is supplemented by relevant primary sources.

On the basis of critical security studies and theories of vernacular security the project is meant to contrast perceptions of in:security on the local level with internationally prevailing security discourses and structures.