From Borderland to Burgenland : Science, Geopolitics, Identity, and the Making of a Region.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jankó, Ferenc.

Contributor:

Opening the Future, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Treaty of Trianon (1920 June 4).

Treaty of Trianon.

Geopolitics--Austria--Burgenland.

Geopolitics.

Germans--Austria--Burgenland.

Germans.

Burgenland (Austria)--History.

Burgenland (Austria).

Burgenland (Austria)--Politics and government.

Burgenland (Austria)--Historiography.

Hungary--Boundaries--Austria.

Hungary.

Austria--Boundaries--Hungary.

Austria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Jankó Ferenc : Ferenc Jankó is associate professor at the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Eötvös Loránd University.

Summary:

The area that constitutes the Austrian federal province of Burgenland belonged to the Hungarian part of the Habsburg empire until the end of World War I. This book helps us realize that geographical knowledge does not come ready-made. Instead, it is created by knowledge makers: geographers, historians, statisticians etc. This knowledge-making helped to legitimatize the area transferred between Austria and Hungary, shape the Burgenland identity, and depict its geopolitical role in the rise of national socialism. This book is about how those studying Burgenland, the creators of its geographical knowledge, saw and represented the province. It explores how they grasped the geographical characteristics of the region through their own perspective, influenced by their own professional positions, individual careers, motivations, and by the broader historical and social medium. The way the area between the provinces of Lower Austria and Styria came about as Burgenland is enthralling, as is how the people there experienced this change of sovereignty and how everyday social and economic relationships were transformed. Tracing the geographical discourses in the interwar period and beyond, the book argues that Burgenland became a successful geographical project, and departs from thoughts of subdivision, unviability, and backwardness, concentrating instead on fertility, unity, and modernization.

Contents:

Cover

Front matter

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Approaches of the book

Pictures of Burgenland

Chapter 2. The Romance of the Monarchy

Seen from Cisleithania

Seen from Transleithania

Chapter 3. Discoverers

From language territory to territorial claim

A tentative boundary recommendation

The most Austrian geographer

Burgenlandarbeit

Pionierarbeit

Explorers of north and south

Chapter 4. Discoverers of Burgenland and German Geopolitics

The Empire comes back

Hands up, yogi!

A German borderland in the southeast

Chapter 5. Identity and Tourism

Burgenland idyll

Landeskunde, Heimatkunde

Chapter 6. The Discovery of Burgenland in the Spatial and Temporal Perspective

We came to bid our farewells

Grenzland reloaded

Chapter 7. Private Discovery Generated by AI.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

1-003-71974-0

963-386-650-2

9781003719748

OCLC:

1433658542