1st Edition
Living (with) Borders Identity Discourses on East-West Borders in Europe
Edited By Ulrike Hanna Meinhof
Copyright 2002
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2002. Most nation states in Europe have undergone dramatic social and political upheaval with the construction of new or the redefinition of existing national borders. This book uses discourse analytical methods to focus on and unravel the complex cultural identities of people living in communities that straddle the border stretching from the Adriatic to the Baltic Sea.
1: Identity Discourses on East-West Borders in Europe: An Introduction; 2: Working Identities: Key Narratives in a Former Border Region in Germany; 3: History and Stories: Identity Construction on the Italian-Slovenian Border; 4: Shifting Borders: Spatial Constructions of Identity in an Austrian/Slovenian Border Region; 5: Bordering Silence: Border Narratives from the Austro-Hungarian Border; 6: Traces of German-Czech History in Biographical Interviews at the Border: Constructions of Identities and the Year 1938 in Bärenstein-Vejprty; 7: Urban Space and the Construction of Identity on the German-Polish Border
Biography
Ulrike Hanna Meinhof