Borderology: Cross-disciplinary Insights from the Border Zone

This book provides a unique and multifaceted view on and understanding of borders and their manifestations: physical and mental, cultural and geographical, and as a question of life and death. It highlights the Green Belt along the Iron Curtain, which offered a haven for rare species for many decades and, after the Cold War, became a veritable treasure trove for a European network of researchers.

A geographical border is something that can be seen, but other borders sometimes have to be crossed to be discovered. The border zone is an arena for development that is not found in any other places. This book focuses on borderology, which became the name of a cross-border study and research program that explores the border zone from multiple perspectives.

This cross-disciplinary book will appeal to interested researchers and students from many fields, from philosophy and diplomacy to ecology and geography.

Provides manifold ways to look at borders Gives insights in how to develop diplomacy Provides an example of peace studies

Contenu
The ethics of translation in a hermeneutical context.- Preconditions for comparative geographic approach and spatial interaction.- Symbolization process of the nature world in mythological type of world outlook.- On uses of 'wild nature': empowered vs. Disempowered agency in kola reindeer-herding territories.- Imagination as a breaker of the borders.- Man and nature: approaches to the delimitation of the concepts.- The need for being disinterested as a key characteristic of human nature.- Nature and man: crime and punishment.- Nature as stoic.- Movement to defend the bialowiea. the problem of the bialowiea forest protection as an example of a values conflict.- The power of doubt.- Cultural images of nature as the basis of human practices.- Human existence between the wood(s) (forest, nature) and home (technology).- Borderology and practical knowledge - humanities response to epigenetic.