European Border Regions in Comparison

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Introduction Katarzyna Stoklosa and Gerhard Besier Part I: Territorial Disputes and Questions of Identity 1. The Spanish-Portuguese Frontier (1297-1926): Identity Midway Between Dialogue and Settlement of Accounts Miguel A. Melon Jimenez 2. The Boundaries Between France and Spain in the Catalan Pyrenees: Elements for the Construction and Invention of Borders Oscar Jane 3. Dividing Regions? Plebiscites and Their Propaganda-Schleswig and Carinthia 1920 Nina Jebsen 4. Schleswig: A Border Region Caught Between Nation States Steen Bo Frandsen 5. The Spanish-Moroccan Relationship: Combining Bonne Entente with Territorial Disputes Jaume Castan Pinos 6. From a Look Backwards to a Look Forwards: The Way to the Border Agreement Between Latvia and Russia Laura Asarite 7. The Building and Erosion of the Post-Conflict Irish Borderscape Cathal Mccall Part II: Cross-Border Co-Operation 8. Re-Signification of the Past in the Northern Portugal/Galicia Border: Amenity, Heritage, and Emblem Paula Godinho 9. Towards Cross-Border Network Governance? The Social and Solidarity Economy and the Construction of a Cross-Border Territory in the Basque Country Xabier Itcaina and Jean-Jacques Manterola 10. Border-Region Tyrol in Historical Perspective: Bridging the Wrong Border? Andrea Varriale 11. The Bulgarian-Greek Border Region: Cross-Border Cooperation Under the Shadow of Minority Issues Nuri Ali Tahir Part III: Perceptions of Borders and Border Regimes 12. The Sociocultural Landscape of the Soviet-Finnish Borderland of the 1930s as Seen Through Autobiographic Childhood Stories Olga Ilyukha 13. (Im)Permeability of the Border in Late Socialism: The Small Traffic Phenomenon on the Romanian-Yugoslavian Border Corneliu Pintilescu and Lavinia Snejana Stan 14. The Border in the Narratives of the Inhabitants of the German-Polish Border Region Katarzyna Stoklosa 15. The Europeanization of the German-Polish Borderlands Elzbieta Opilowska 16. Between Borders And Boundaries: Romanian-Hungarian Identity Politics During the 20th Century Monica Andriescu Part IV: Prejudices, Stereotypes and Nationalism 17. Boundaries Between Ourselves and Others: The Role of Prejudice and Stereotypes in General with Specific Reference to Border Regions Gerhard Besier 18. South Tyrol After 1945: An Example of Co-Existence of Different National Groups, or Rather a Cage for Imagined Communities to Lie Frozen? Davide Mauro Artico and Brunello Mantelli 19. Remembrance and Oblivion in the Danish-German Border Region Inge Adriansen