Borderland identities
Subtitle: territory and belonging in Central, North and East Europe
By: Madeline Hurd, editor
Contributors: Södertörns högskola. Centre for Baltic and East European Studies
Series: Baltic and East European studies -- 8; Baltic and East European studies -- nr 8.
Publisher: Förlags ab Gondolin
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Eslöv, Sweden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9789188821997
Subjects: European National characteristics; Boundaries; International relations; Grensgebieden; Nationale identiteit; Culturele identiteit
Notes: Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University College--t.p. verso.

Several of the articles were originally presented at the 2004 conference Crossing Borders: Histories, Theories and Identities held at the University of Glamorgan's Centre for Border Studies.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Soviet settlers on a strange territory: experiences and narratives from the former Finnish Karelia / Pekka Hakkamies; title: The new post-Soviet borderlands: nostalgia, resistance to changes, adaptation. A case study of three near-border villages in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine / Tatiana Zhurzhenko; title: The EU's new eastern border: will cultural overlap be a force for change? / Ann Kennard; title: Common, cross-border regional history as an approach to people-to-people cooperation and cross-border regional integration / Martin Klatt; title: Language and communication proximity in border areas / Thomas Lundén; title: Regionalism and the politics of identity: a view from Ukraine's eastern borderlands / Peter W. Rodgers; title: Language, identity and boundaries in a Ukranian-Russian borderland: talking about history and identity / Margrethe B Søvik; title: Nation building and border identities: the economic recontruction of the Schleswig border region, 1919-24 / Morten Andersen; title: Boundaries in border police cooperation: the case of the German-Polish border / Alexandra Schwell.; title: Ethnicity as a factor of cross-border economic interaction? The case of the Slovakian-Hungarian border region / Wolfgang Aschauer; title: Religion versus ethnicity: a case study of nationalism or how Masuria became a 'borderland' / Andreas Kossert; title: Early modern people(s) in the borderlands: linguistic or religious definitions of 'us' and 'the other' / Kimmo Katajala; title: The cultural borders of religion: reactions to Russian Orthodoxy by early-modern diplomats and businessmen / Cornelia Soldat; title: Waiting to be free: Danzig, identity and media, 1918-1919 / Madeline Hurd; title: A new national language: sports journalism sets boundaries at the Stockholm Olympics of 1912 / Christian Wildholm; title: Minorities, migrants and refugees: crossing the border(s) of Pan-German identity in Austria, 1933-1938 / Julie Thorpe; title: Don't fence me in! Sweden's homecoming hero, April 1935 / Tom Olsson.