European border regions in comparison : overcoming nationalistic aspects or re-nationalization? / edited by Katarzyna Stokłosa and Gerhard Besier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stokłosa, Katarzyna, author, editor.

Besier, Gerhard, author, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in modern European history ; 21.

Routledge studies in modern European history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--Social aspects--Europe.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--Europe--History.

History.

Social aspects.

Europe--Relations.

Europe.

Relations.

Regionalism--Europe.

Regionalism.

Nationalism--Europe.

Nationalism.

Group identity--Europe.

Group identity.

Physical Description:

ix, 379 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

"Borders exist in almost every sphere of life. Initially, borders were established in connection with kingdoms, regions, towns, villages and cities. With nation building, they became important as a line separating two national states with different "national characteristics," narratives and myths. The term "border" has a negative connotation for being a separating line, a warning signal not to cross a line between the allowed and the forbidden. The awareness of both mental and factual borders in manifold spheres of our life has made them a topic of consideration in almost all scholarly disciplines: history, geography, political science and many others. This book primarily incorporates an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists and political science scholars from a diverse range of European universities analyze historical as well as contemporary perceptions and perspectives concerning border regions -- inside the EU, between EU and non-EU European countries, and between European and non-European countries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Spanish-Portuguese frontier (1297-1926) : identity midway between dialogue and settlement of accounts / Miguel A. Melón Jiménez

The boundaries between France and Spain in the Catalan Pyrenees : elements for the construction and invention of borders / Oscar Jané

Dividing regions? : plebiscites and their propaganda : Schleswig and Carinthia, 1920 / Nina Jebsen

Schleswig : a border region caught between nation states / Steen Bo Frandsen

The Spanish-Moroccan relationship : combining bonne entente with territorial disputes / Jaume Castan Pinos

From a look backwards to a look forwards : the way to the border agreement between Latvia and Russia / Laura Asarite

The building and erosion of the "post-conflict" Irish borderscape / Cathal Mccall

Re-signification of the past in the northern Portugal/Galicia border : amenity, heritage, and emblem / Paula Godinho

Towards cross-border network governance? : the social and solidarity economy and the construction of a cross-border territory in the Basque Country / Xabier Itçaina and Jean-Jacques Manterola

Border-region Tyrol in historical perspective : bridging the wrong Border? / Andrea Varriale

The Bulgarian-Greek border region : cross-border cooperation under the shadow of minority issues / Nuri Ali Tahir

The sociocultural landscape of the Soviet-Finnish borderland of the 1930s as seen through autobiographic childhood stories / Olga Ilyukha

(Im)Permeability of the border in late socialism : the small traffic phenomenon on the Romanian-Yugoslavian border / Corneliu Pintilescu and Lavinia Snejana Stan

The border in the narratives of the inhabitants of the German-Polish border region / Katarzyna Stoklosa

The Europeanization of the German-Polish borderlands / Elzbieta Opilowska

Between borders and boundaries : Romanian-Hungarian identity politics during the 20th century / Monica Andriescu

Boundaries between ourselves and others : the role of prejudice and stereotypes in general with specific reference to border regions / Gerhard Besier

South Tyrol after 1945 : an example of co-existence of different national groups, or, Rather a cage for imagined communities to lie frozen? / Davide Mauro Artico and Brunello Mantelli

Remembrance and oblivion in the Danish-German border region / Inge Adriansen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415725989

0415725984

OCLC:

852219592

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