Borderlands: Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Mediterranean Region and the Arab World 3700-ISSC-BEBMA23-OG

Aim of the course is reflection on questions revolving the notion of borderlands.
The central problem of the borderlands will be illustrated with case studies of the Polish Borderlands (Kresy), the German Bollewerk, the Balkan borderlands of military (Croatian- Vojna Krajina, German- Militärgrenze, Serbian- Војна Крајина, Hungarian-Katonai határőrvidék, Latin- Confiniaria militaria), religious and cultural character of the concept, and the series of lectures on Israel/Palestine and Lebanon (+ the context of other Arab countries), focused on conceptualizations of these territories as borderlands but with references to critique of the usage of an aforementioned notion. Another illustration of the specificity of the title category will be the cities and towns of the Slovenian-Italian border region, Dalmatia and eastern Poland.
What is the difference between borderlands and kresy? How are borderlands formed? What is the historical background of the contemporary borderlands existence? Is it possible to treat the whole region as a borderland? What is the result of such approach, how does it influence our understanding of a region? How can we identify the boundaries of the borderland? How do cultural traditions and identities form in the borderlands? How are everyday practices influenced by the borderland context? What is the role of materiality and symbolism in borderlands construction? How does the notion of borderlands work in a conflict reality? How to explore and research the complexity of the borderlands?
Outline of the topics:

Prof. dr hab. Jolanta Sujecka:

1. Borderlands: Polish Context
2. Borderlands: German Context
3. The Balkans as Borderland
4. Macedonia – Illustration of Borderlands
5. The Borderlands and Identity. Mediterranean and Balkan Context

Bibliografia:

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Ǵorgiev Dragi (2013) The Name Macedonia in the Ottoman period (14th – 19th Century) [in:] Macedonia, Land, Region, Borderland. Conception and academic editing Jolanta Sujecka. Wydawnictwo DiG, pp.: 105-136.

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Dr Maciej Falski

6. Border cities? The historical background of the formation of contemporary Slovenian-Italian borderland.
7. Biography as a tool to understand borderland community from below.
8. Different kinds of borders: ethnic, political, sociological. Dalmatia as an example
9. Zamojskie region: from borderland to the 'landscape of absence’
10. Between localness and centralising identities: notion of the cultural heritage.

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Falski M. (2020). ‘Slovenian Elites in Trieste and their Role in the Formation of Local Communities’, Acta Poloniae Historica 121, pp. 43-64.
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Neighbourhood as a Cultural and Social Problem. Colloquia Humanistica 4, 2015.

Dr hab. Michał Moch

11. Mapping the contemporary South-Western Asia and Northern Africa. New borders and borderlands. The context of Jewish immigration to Palestine and of the crisis of Judeo-Arabic Culture.
12. Power, land, ethnicity, ethnocracy. Can we talk about modern Israel/Palestine as postcolonial borderlands?
13. Space and separation in conflicted borderlands. Daily experience and artistic representations
14. Popular music on the cultural, ethnic and transnational borderlands of Israel/Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt
15. The idea of Lebanon as a Borderland of the West and the Arab world. Collective myths and political decline.

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