Abstract 2016 is likely to be recalled – in Europe, at least – as a temporal bordering, after a majority in the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. The “Brexit” referendum result has been pinned on the rise of populist politics and the revenge of so-called “left behind” places. Regardless of reasons, the referendum left the UK with fraught politics and protracted negotiations, especially over how to re-border with a Europe that has held the dismantling of borders at the heart of its philosophical project. While Brexit has already become a byword, an earlier referendum on British borders has long slipped from international note. In 1997, a majority in Wales (one of the four constituent countries of the UK), voted for devolution from central government in Westminster. Like the Brexit referendum twenty years later, the majority in favor of devolution was slight, exposing uneasy fractures and internal cleavages as it opened fresh questions of governance and geography. By attending to a small country at the periphery of Europe, we seek to destabilize the assumption of shared markers of global bordering (1989, 2001), revealing instead the palimpsests of identity and territoriality across which re-made borders run “all over.”

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1997 年和 2016 年：公投、英国退欧和（重新）与欧洲周边接壤

摘要 2016 年可能会被召回——至少在欧洲——作为一个时间边界，在英国的多数投票决定离开欧盟之后。“脱欧”公投结果被寄托在民粹主义政治的兴起和所谓“落后”地方的报复上。无论出于何种原因，公投给英国留下了充满政治压力和旷日持久的谈判，尤其是关于如何与以拆除边界为核心哲学项目的欧洲重新接壤的问题。虽然英国退欧已经成为一个代名词，但早先关于英国边界的公投早已不为国际关注。1997 年，威尔士（英国的四个组成国之一）的大多数人投票支持威斯敏斯特中央政府权力下放。就像二十年后的英国脱欧公投一样，支持权力下放的大多数人是轻微的，暴露出不安的裂缝和内部裂痕，因为它打开了治理和地理的新问题。通过关注欧洲边缘的一个小国，我们试图破坏全球边界共享标记的假设（1989 年，2001 年），而是揭示了身份和领土的回纹，重新制定的边界“遍地开花”。