Territorial dimensions of Hungarian ethnic identity
Ethnic community ; Ethnic group ; Geopolitics ; Hungary ; National territory ; Political geography ; Territorialidentity
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)
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.
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)
Administrative unit ; Regional economy ; Regional geography ; Regional identity ; Regionalization ; Slovenia ; Social institution ; Territorialidentity
División administrativa ; Economía regional ; Eslovenia ; Geografía regional ; Identidad regional ; Identidad territorial ; Regionalización
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)
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
Desnivel entre las regiones ; Eslovaquia ; Identidad nacional ; Identidad regional ; Identidad territorial ; Percepción ; República Checa
Aim of the article is to analyze the territorialidentity of the inhabitants of Czechia and Slovakia with an emphasis on interregional disparities. Paper is divided into two main parts – the first part deals with the issue of territorialidentity
and the second part deals with the analysis of current territorial consciousness of the inhabitants of Czechia and Slovakia. The source of our data necessary for the analysis is taken from the ISSP 2003 survey program called “National Identity II”. - (EN)
Ethnic and political identities and territorialities in the post-soviet space
Territorial change and national identities in Eastern and Western Europe
Cultural identity ; Ethnic community ; Former USSR ; Language ; Myth ; Nation ; National identity ; Political geography ; Territorialidentity ; Territoriality
Argentina ; Chronology ; Cultural identity ; Globalization ; Historical account ; Identity ; Latin America ; National identity ; Patrimony ; Space ; Territorialidentity ; Territoriality ; Territory
People as landmarks : the geographic identities of Faeroe Islanders
Faeroe Islands ; Island ; Place names ; Social geography ; Territorialidentity
Human survival on the Faeroe Islands has required an intimate knowledge of the landscape. This has influenced islanders to attach personal identities to their local environs. People take on geographic names as their own name. Some people even
Frontier transformations : space and identity in Early Modern South-Africa
Space and place. Mirrors of social and cultural identities ?
Appropriation of land ; Ethnic community ; Historical geography ; Immigration ; Modern period ; Perception ; Social group ; South Africa ; Territorialidentity
Decision making process ; Europe ; Flanders ; Globalization ; Ireland ; Locality ; Netherlands (The) ; Rural area ; Rural geography ; Rural planning ; Sweden ; Territorialidentity ; 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)
Territorial loss and national image: the case of Ecuador
Citizenship ; Cultural studies ; Ecuador ; Nation-state ; National identity ; National territory ; Political geography
Examines how the government of Ecuador shapes the image of its country by maps, monuments and slogans in an effort to remind citizens of its lost Amazonian territory, especially that taken away par Peru in 1941. - (DWG)
My friends in low places: building identity for place and community
Community ; Cultural identity ; Homelessness ; Locality ; Place ; Poverty ; Social class ; Territorialidentity ; United States of America ; Urban policy ; Urban society