Living (with) Borders: Identity Discourses on East-West Borders in Europe

by Ulrike Hanna Meinhof (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138728301
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/11/2019
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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