{"product_id":"territories-boundaries-and-consciousness-9780471961192","title":"Territories Boundaries and Consciousness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecent 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTERRITORIES AND BOUNDARIES IN REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Regional Transformation and the Other.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Territories, Boundaries and the Discourse on PoliticalGeography.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Time, Space and Consciousness: Constructing Nationalism andCommunicating Boundaries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Methodological Contexts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE FINNISH TERRITORY.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Nationalism, Geopolitics and Changing Territories: The Case ofFinland.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Changing Socio-Spatial Consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Signifying Territoriality: The Changing Roles of theFinnish-Russian Boundary.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e TOWARDS LOCAL EXPERIENCE.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Place, Boundary and the Construction of Local Experience.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Regional Transformation on the Local Scale: TheInstitutionalization of Vartsila.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Back to Karelia.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Towards a Global Sense of Place.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e References.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Indexes.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037071901015,"sku":"9780471961192","price":254.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780471961192.jpg?v=1750934266","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/territories-boundaries-and-consciousness-9780471961192","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}