GEOGRAPHY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY Edited by
- 1s111uro Univers1!ar10 Alchllenuro Venezia G 5 1 ServlZto 81bhogrol1co Aud1ov1s1vo e d1 Documentaz1one
Geography and National Identity Edited by Ii] BLACKWELL Oxford UK 6- Cambridge USA
Contents List of Figures Preface Vlll lx Part I 2 3 4 5 6 7 Introduction Long-established Imperial Identities European and English Landscapes as National Symbols David Lowenthal From Michelet to Braudel: Personality, Identity and Organization of France Paul Claval National Identity in Vidal's Tableau de la geographie de la France: From Political Geography to Human Geography Marie-Claire Robie In Search of Identity: German Nationalism and Geography, 1871-1910 Gerhard Sandner Berlin or Bonn? National Identity and the Question of the German Capital Mechtild Rossler Nationalism and Geography in Modern Japan, 1880s to 1920s Keiichi Takeuchi Russian Geographers and the 'National Mission' in the Far East Mark Bassin 13 15 39 58 71 92 104 112
- ---. --- - -- ----------- -------_ -_-_--_ -~~=-n..--- v1 8 9 Contents Ex-Soviet Identities and the Return of Geography 'National Unity' and National Identities in the People's Republic of China Lisa E. Husmann 134 141 Part II Long-submerged Identities 159 10 11 12 13 Edgar Kant and Balto-Skandia: Heimatkunde and Regional Identity Anne Buttimer Stateless National Identity and French-Canadian Geographic Discourse Vincent Berdoulay Nationalism and Geography in Catalonia Maria Do/ors Garcia-Ramon and Joan Nogue-Font Two Geopolitical Concepts of Poland ]ozef Babicz 14 The Image and the Vision of the Fatherland: The Case of Poland in Comparative Perspective Ladis K. D. Kristof 15 National Identity of Ukraine Ihor Stebe/sky 16 The Quest for Slovene National Identity J oseph Velikonja 161 184 197 212 221 233 249 Part Ill Newly Emerging Identities 257 17 Coming to Terms with Australia J. M. Powell 18 Geography and National Identity in Australia Oskar Spate 19 South Australia: Discoverers, Makers and Interpreters Murray McCaskill 20 Maori Identity and Maori Geomentality Hong-key Yoon 259 277 283 293 21 The Continuing Creation of Identities in the Pacific Islands: Blood, Behaviour, Boundaries and Belief 311 Ron Crocombe 22 Tradition, Culture and Imposed Change in Indonesia Cheri Ragaz 331
23 Geographical Identity and Patriotic Representation in Argentina Marcelo Esco!ar, Si!vina Quintero Palacios and Carlos Reboratti Afterword: Identity Resurgent - The Contributors Geography Revived Contents vu 346 367 371 Index 375 Related Titles: List of IBG Special Publications 390 c:;:... -- -- -- ---- --- ~ - -- -- -
e Institute of British Geographers Special Publication Series This volume of especially commissioned essays explores the geography of-and the role of geography in - national and proto-national identity. Place and national identity are bound together. Attachment to the one is almost always inseparable from the sense of the other. Yet, as this volume shows, the articulated self-conscious linking of place and identity is by and large a modern phenomenon that took root in nineteenth-century Europe. The formation of supra-national states and the much vaunted globalization of culture led many to believe there would be a progressive dilution of national identities and a growing agglomeration of places and nations into larger state units. Precisely the reverse has taken place. The contributors to this book explore the connections between identity and homeland. They show how a place may be perceived as archetypal, endowed with love and celebrated in music and poetry, yet be a pretext for violence and war. They examine the evolution of ideas about identity and their manifestation in a wide variety of settings, from the former Soviet Union to the island states of the South Pacific. Resurgent national identities and their homelands - and the problems associated with their realization - have been and will be with us for a long time: this book throws light on what they are, what they mean, and how they came to be. has been Professor of Geography at Berkeley since 1 966. He was formerly Chairman of the Department and of the Center for Slavic East European Studies, as well as serving for several years as Dean of Social Sciences. He is a past Chairman of the International Commission on the History of Geographical Thought. For half his life he has lived in the United States, although he was born and brought up in rural Wales. He has travelled widely in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Cover illustration: Hungarian demonstrators, Budapest, spring 7 989; photograph: Laszlo Haris. ISBN 0-631-18935-1 113 BLACl<WELL Ox.ford UK 6- Ca mb1ij1e USA Ill 111 9 780631 189350 >