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In search of the authentic nation: landscape and national identity in Canada and Switzerland
While the study of nationalism and national identity has flourished in the last decade, little attention has been devoted to the conditions under which natural environments acquire significance in definitions of nationhood. This article examines the identity-forming role of landscape depictions in two polyethnic nation-states: Canada and Switzerland. Two types of geographical national identity are identified. The first – what we call the ‘nationalisation of nature’– portrays zarticular landscapes as expressions of national authenticity. The second pattern – what we refer to as the ‘naturalisation of the nation’– rests upon a notion of geographical determinism that depicts specific landscapes as forces capable of determining national identity. The authors offer two reasons why the second pattern came to prevail in the cases under consideration: (1) the affinity between wild landscape and the Romantic ideal of pure, rugged nature, and (2) a divergence between the nationalist ideal of ethnic homogeneity and the polyethnic composition of the two societies under consideration
Social and Cultural Sustainability: Criteria, Indicators, Verifier Variables for Measurement and Maps for Visualization to Support Planning
Measurement, Collaborative Learning and Research for Sustainable Use of Ecosystem Services: Landscape Concepts and Europe as Laboratory
Le voyage inachevé... à Joël Bonnemaison
Geographers were late in developing the analysis of myths. Myths play however a decisive role in the life of societies, since it reveals the true nature of things, the significance of life and what is wrong or right. In contemporary societies, myths took the shape of ideologies. Their analysis is fundamental in order to understand the geography of right and wrong, the role of purification rituals in the life of every society, and the ways through which identities are developed. (Résumé d'auteur
Le territoire, lien ou frontière ? : identités, conflits ethniques, enjeux et recompositions territoriales
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