European Border Regions in Comparison: Overcoming Nationalistic Aspects or Re-Nationalization?

Katarzyna Stoklosa (Curatore)

Gerhard Besier (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014

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.

• Curatore: Katarzyna Stoklosa, Gerhard Besier
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Anno: 2014
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 392 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 890 gr.
• EAN: 9780415725989

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