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European Border Regions in Comparison

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 disciplineshistory, 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 regionsinside the EU, between EU and non-EU European countries, and between European and non-European countries.

Katarzyna Stokosa is Associate Professor in the Department of Border Region Studies at the University of Snderborg.

Gerhard Besier holds the Chair in European Studies at the Technical University of Dresden.

Routledge Studies in Modern European History

1 Facing Fascism

The Conservative Party and the European dictators 19351940

Nick Crowson

2 French Foreign and Defence Policy, 19181940

The Decline and Fall of a Great Power

Edited by Robert Boyce

3 Britain and the Problem of International Disarmament

19191934

Carolyn Kitching

4 British Foreign Policy 18741914

The Role of India

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5 Racial Theories in Fascist Italy

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6 Stormtroopers and Crisis in the Nazi Movement

Activism, Ideology and Dissolution

Thomas D. Grant

7 Trials of Irish History

Genesis and Evolution of a Reappraisal 1938-2000

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8 From Slave Trade to Empire

European Colonisation of Black Africa 1780s1880s

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9 The Russian Revolution of 1905

Centenary Perspectives

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11 The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office

Hans-Adolf Jacobsen and Arthur L. Smith, Jr.

12 The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy

From Unification to Fascism

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13 German Colonialism, Visual Culture and Modern Memory

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14 German Colonialism and National Identity

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15 Landscapes of the Western Front

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17 Alan S. Milward and a Century of European Change

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Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s

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19 Totalitarian Dictatorship

New Histories

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20 Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany

The Euthanasia Programs

Edited by Susan Benedict and Linda Shields

21 European Border Regions in Comparison

Overcoming Nationalistic Aspects or Re-Nationalization?

Edited by Katarzyna Stokosa and Gerhard Besier

European Border Regions in Comparison

Overcoming Nationalistic Aspects or Re-Nationalization?

Edited by Katarzyna Stokosa and Gerhard Besier

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

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

pages cm. (Routledge studies in modern European history ; 21)

1. BorderlandsSocial aspectsEurope. 2. Borderlands EuropeHistory. 3. EuropeRelations. 4. RegionalismEurope. 5. NationalismEurope. 6. Group identityEurope. I. Stoklosa, Katarzyna, author, editor of compilation. II. Besier, Gerhard, author, editor of compilation.

JN34.5.E874 2014

320.54094dc23

2013033532

ISBN13: 978-0-415-72598-9 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-1-315-81560-2 (ebk)

Katarzyna Stokosa and Gerhard Besier

Some Thoughts Regarding the Study of Borders and Border Regions

Borders exist in almost every sphere of life. Acting as a line separating different groups, the term border is overwhelmingly pejorative in its connotations. Nevertheless, people often cross borders as they are fascinated by the unknown and the assumed new. Time and again we observe parents instructing their children: Be careful! Dont cross the border! Such admonitions are warning signals to those not to cross a line between the allowed and the forbidden, the latter being possibly dangerous or in discord with conventional cultural conventions. In recent times, not least due to the societal impact of terrorist attacks, the border between good and evil has been subject to intense discussion.

The cartographical depiction of a border functions as a geographical and political act of self-demarcation by an in-group. Initially established as often flexible lines demarcating kingdoms, regions, towns, villages, and cities, the age of nationalism in the 19th century established and increased their significance and immutability. National borders now became a line separating areas of purported national difference. Organized around supposedly innate national characteristics, narratives, and myths, they were now considered with something approaching holy reverence.1

The considerable influence exerted by borders and their presence in both mental and physical maps make them a natural point of interest for a number of scholarly disciplines. Contemporary historians, geographers, political scientists, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, and many others are all engaged in intensive consideration of their nature and impact. In the 19th and first half of the 20th century, borders were studied primarily by political geographers dealing with the phenomenon of a border as a natural border characterized by a strong expansive component.2 The representatives of such a school of thought included Friedrich Ratzel (

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