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Book SynopsisRecent years have witnessed the most substantial changes in the world system of states and their boundaries since World War II. The key division between the states in the world system the former deep ideological divide between East and West has disappeared. The border between Finland and Russia was a frontier between East and West and had a long history as a fundamental dividing line between contrasting cultural and political systems. Territories, Boundaries and Consciousness is the first geographical analysis of how this critical border evolved. This original and well-illustrated book is much more than a local study. It presents both a theoretically informed analysis of the construction of territories and their boundaries and a richly detailed geohistory of the changing geography of Finland. It traces the nature of the nation-building process, the rise of the nation state and the changing position of this emerging new state in the world geopolitical landscape. The history of the const
Table of ContentsTERRITORIES AND BOUNDARIES IN REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION.
Regional Transformation and the Other.
Territories, Boundaries and the Discourse on PoliticalGeography.
Time, Space and Consciousness: Constructing Nationalism andCommunicating Boundaries.
Methodological Contexts.
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE FINNISH TERRITORY.
Nationalism, Geopolitics and Changing Territories: The Case ofFinland.
The Changing Socio-Spatial Consciousness.
Signifying Territoriality: The Changing Roles of theFinnish-Russian Boundary.
TOWARDS LOCAL EXPERIENCE.
Place, Boundary and the Construction of Local Experience.
Regional Transformation on the Local Scale: TheInstitutionalization of Vartsila.
Back to Karelia.
Epilogue: Towards a Global Sense of Place.
Appendix.
References.
Indexes.
