Postage stamps as manifestations of national identity
Cultural studies ; Germans ; National identity ; Perception ; Social geography
Postage stamps are true identity carriers and therefore grist to cultural geographers' mill. Take for instance Dutch and German stamps over the past 150 years : they tell strikingly different stories about the countries' perceived national
identities and about the development of those identities. - (IFL)
Geographical perspectives on Finnish national identity
Finland ; Nation ; National identity ; National territory ; Nationalism ; Political geography ; State
This paper starts from the fact that nation, national identity and nationalism are contextual and contested categories, and suggests a critical approach, labelled as the institutionalization of territories, which should evaluate the practices
and ideological mechanisms involved in the production and reproduction of territories and their identities. National identities develop and change continually.
This paper examines the efficacy of relying on self-declared occupational identity through the analysis of rural landholder survey data in Victoria state, Australia. First, it distinguishes self-declared identity of farmer/non-farmer and social
and farming variables expected to be correlated with occupation. It seems that this approach is a valid and cost-effective way to explore occupational identity amongst rural landholders. The paper concludes with a discussion of the potential benefits of moving
beyond self-declared occupation to include other elements in the collective identity construct.
Territorial dimensions of Hungarian ethnic identity
Ethnic community ; Ethnic group ; Geopolitics ; Hungary ; National territory ; Political geography ; Territorial identity
A review of Hungary's foreign policy draws out the special character of Hungarian political and cultural identity to explain why Hungarians living in neighboring states will continue to be a source of territorial tension. - (DWG)
The factors that influence spatial identity are regional economy, social institutions, mass media, administration divisions, and sport. The research tries to realize three aims : to define the term identity region as an element of geographical
regionalization, to determine the factors creating the regional identity and identity regions, to find out the spatial reach of the important elements and on that basis work out the regionalization of Slovenia by identity regions. - (IKR)
respondents sense of regional identity. It is relatively strong but only among elderly people. As every regionally based sentiment Silesian identity is now confronted with forces of globalisation. - (MS)
Layering spatial identities : the identity discourses of new regions
Brabant ; Cooperation ; Discourse ; Netherlands (The) ; Region ; Regional development ; Regional economy ; Regional identity ; Sustainable development
This paper studies how the identity discourses of new regions in the Netherlands are constructed by administrators and other stakeholders by using elements linked to the identity of more established spatial entities. Especially important
and BrabantStad the identity discourses of new regions have been constructed through selective association with the complex layers of more established spatial identities nearby.
Frontiers and popular nationhood : geographies of identity in the 1995 Ecuador-Peru border dispute
Citizenship ; Conflict ; Ecuador ; Frontier ; Nation ; National identity ; National territory ; Political geography
Drawing on substantive work on Ecuadorian national identities, an examination is made of the multiple geographies of identities which were articulated and negotiated during the border dispute in January and February. While territorial claims
and border protocols form a significant geography of identity through which state-initiated nation-building imaginative geographies are articulated, these are not the only geographies imagined and expressed by citizens during and around the time
European dimension and European identity through the perspective of geography teaching in Slovenia
Education ; Educational programme ; Europe ; Regional identity ; Slovenia ; Teaching of geography
The paper discusses geography teaching in Slovenia as viewed through the prism of an European dimension and identity. The A. aims to identify to what extent the European dimension and European identity exist within school geography curricula. He
suggests possibilities for the development of geography teaching concerning the implementation of European identity issues within the framework of European dimension. - (IKR)
Regional identity and its reflection in Czech human geography
Concept ; Czech Republic ; Geographic school ; Human geography ; Region ; Regional development ; Regional identity
The regional identity can be an useful tool for creating regional strategies or to shape the individual’s position in time and space. The issue of regional identity emerged in Western geography approximately in the 1970s. However, its position
in Czech human geography is not embedded sufficiently up to now. The main goal of the study is to evaluate the development of the research of regional identity in Czech human geography. - (IKR)
Identify of place, places of identities : change of place names in post-apartheid South Africa
Identity ; Place ; Place names ; South Africa ; Territorial restructuring
Various types of transformations of toponyms coexist in South Africa at every scale. Place names contribute to forging the identity of different places, at different scale. The changes of place names is a pertinent tool to analyse territorial
restructuring in post-apartheid South Africa. If toponyms reflect the identity of a place, their changes are indicative of multiple identities contained in one place or territory. - (AJC)
Smallholding, hobby-farming, and commercial farming : ethical identities and the production of farming spaces
Agriculture ; Cultural studies ; Ethics ; Farmer ; Identity ; Production of space ; United Kingdom
The paper explores the production of farming identities and spaces, focusing especially on the relational construction of situated ethical identities. Using three case studies drawn from research with very small-scale farmers, the A. examines
processes of identification, drawing on ideas which suggest the importance of encounter, farming discourse, physical relation and heterogeneous association in the emergence of ethical identity in specific farming situations and places.
Decision making process ; Europe ; Flanders ; Globalization ; Ireland ; Locality ; Netherlands (The) ; Rural area ; Rural geography ; Rural planning ; Sweden ; Territorial identity ; United Kingdom
Traditionally policies for the development of rural areas have focussed on the catching up with core areas. More recently however identity has become a focal point in rural planning. The increasing attention for local identity conflicts
with the overwhelming power of globalisation and standardisation. In this context, the book examines the identity of rural areas. It makes clear that a rural identity is not a natural or objective fact, but is ascribed by actors who have different interests
in the development of an area. This implies an existence of multiple identities. The different contributions refer to regions in the Netherlands, Flanders, Sweden, Ireland and the UK. - (AGD)