Reterritorialization of Space in South Slovakia - Visual Practices of Village Signs

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F15%3A00080631" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/15:00080631 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://socstudia.fss.muni.cz/" target="_blank" >http://socstudia.fss.muni.cz/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reterritorialization of Space in South Slovakia - Visual Practices of Village Signs

Original language description

Brubaker (1996) sees nation as practical category, institutionalized form and contingent event. He examines nation as a category of practice not as a category of analysis (1996:7). Inspired by Brubaker I examine manifestation of nationalism in the circles of the Hungarian national minority in south Slovakian villages from a cultural sociological perspective by focusing to the visual side of nationalistic performance. The appearance of visual objects I explore as a category of national identity that is apractical usage with clear connection to cultural perception of national symbols. The everyday experience organizes discourse and challenges political action but it has a deep cultural and historical dimension that appears visually. I argue that national identity is seen as a map; an imagined mental map that tries to push itself to the map of political borders. One of the most recent and visible manifestation of this struggle are the village signs in székely writing in south Slovakian v

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP404%2F12%2F2531" target="_blank" >GAP404/12/2531: Collective memory and the transformation of urban space</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociální studia

ISSN

1214-813X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

53-74

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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