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This book analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone
areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and
identity building, mainly after 1989. It offers perspectives from a
number of disciplines such as sociolinguistics, socio-political
history and language policy. Languages are artefacts of culture,
meaning they are created by people. They are often used for
identity building and maintenance, but in Central and Eastern
Europe they became the basis of nation building and national
statehood maintenance. The recent split of the Serbo-Croatian
language in the wake of the break-up of Yugoslavia amply
illustrates the highly politicized role of languages in this
region, which is also home to most of the world's Slavic-speakers.
This volume presents and analyzes the creation of languages across
the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for
political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. The
overview concludes with a reflection on the recent rise of
Slavophone speech communities in Western Europe and Israel. The
book brings together renowned international scholars who offer a
variety of perspectives from a number of disciplines and sub-fields
such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language
policy, making this book of great interest to historians,
sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists interested
in Central and Eastern Europe and Slavic Studies.
Geographies of Nationhood examines the meteoric rise of
ethnographic mapmaking in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries as a form of visual and material culture that gave
expression to territorialised visions of nationhood. In the Russian
Empire's Baltic provinces, the development of ethnographic
cartography, as part of the broader field of statistical data
visualisation, progressively became a tool that lent legitimacy and
an experiential dimension to nationalist arguments, as well as a
wide range of alternative spatial configurations that rendered the
inhabitants of the Baltic as part of local, imperial, and global
geographies. Catherine Gibson argues that map production and the
spread of cartographic literacy as a mass phenomenon in Baltic
society transformed how people made sense of linguistic, ethnic,
and religious similarities and differences by imbuing them with an
alleged scientific objectivity that was later used to determine the
political structuring of the Baltic region and beyond. Geographies
of Nationhood treads new ground by expanding the focus beyond
elites to include a diverse range of mapmakers, such as local
bureaucrats, commercial enterprises, clergymen, family members,
teachers, and landowners. It shifts the focus from imperial learned
and military institutions to examine the proliferation of mapmaking
across diverse sites in the Empire, including the provincial
administration, local learned societies, private homes, and
schools. Understanding ethnographic maps in the social context of
their production, circulation, consumption, and reception is
crucial for assessing their impact as powerful shapers of popular
geographical conceptions of nationhood, state-building, and
border-drawing.
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Gracie Saves the Day! (Paperback)
Catherine Gibson, Michael LaChance; Illustrated by Rebekah Philllips
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Gracie Saves the Day! (Hardcover)
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