Mapping Modernities

ISBN-13: 9780415216203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 352 str.

Alan Dingsdale;Dingsdale Alan

Opis

When the communist governments in central and eastern Europe collapsed in 1989/91, there was a revived interest in a region that had been largely neglected by western geographers. This text draws on the resulting work and other original theoretical and empirical sources to describe, interpret and explain the place and spatial order of modernities in Central and Eastern Europe since 1920, to give a theoretically underpinned, regional geography of the area.

Spis treści

Introduction: geographies, modernity and transformations in Central and Eastern Europe PART 1 Geography, modernity and Central and Eastern Europe as Marchlands 1 Geographical space, modernity and spatial modernity 2 Marches and disputed borderlands: what and where are the lands of which we speak? PART 2 Spatial modernity and the Nationalist Project 3 The Nationalist Project: the assertion of ethnic nationality in modernity 4 The production of localities in nationalist modernity 5 The production of states and regions in nationalist modernity 6 The Marchlands in European and global space PART 3 Spatial modernity and the Communist Project 7 The Communist Project: the assertion of collective development and competing global modernities 8 The production of localities as an experience of communist modernity 9 The production of the Party-state and its regions 10 The production of Eastern Europe in the European and global spaces of competing modernities PART 4 Spatial modernity and the Neo-liberalist Project 11 The Neo-liberalist Project: the assertion of self-development and from geo-politics to geo-economics in global modernity? 12 The production of localities in transition 13 The production of regions in transition 14 The production of states in transition 15 The Marchlands in the production of the New Europe 16 Central and Eastern Europe as Marchlands in the global spatial modernity of the 1990s

O autorze

Alan Dingsdale is Principal Lecturer in the Department of International Studies at Nottingham Trent University.