Employing mental mapping to study youth cross-border spatial practices: an example from the Czech-Polish Borderland

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08873631.2025.2460259#abstract" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08873631.2025.2460259#abstract</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2025.2460259" target="_blank" >10.1080/08873631.2025.2460259</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Employing mental mapping to study youth cross-border spatial practices: an example from the Czech-Polish Borderland

Original language description

The article focuses on analyzing spatial practices of upper-secondary grammar school students in the specific environment of the divided town Český Těšín/Cieszyn and the divided cultural-historical region of Těšín/Cieszyn Silesia in the Czech-Polish borderland. Previous research on adults showed the city and the region as examples of successful cross-border integration in Central Eastern Europe. The text employs mental mapping in Gould’s sense, bringing deeper analysis of spatial practices and border perception of young people. Students from three typologically similar schools were questioned for the most comprehensive view. Substantial level of cross-border integration was found only among the students from the bilingual school in Český Těšín, with Polish as a first language, focused on youth from the Polish minority living in Czechia. Students from schools for majority populations both in Český Těšín and Cieszyn manifested only scarce pragmatic cross-border activities. Apart from mental distance, the vast majority of respondents see their future outside their home region despite its distinct regional identity. Furthermore, mental mapping proved to be a suitable method to study cross-border practices, enhancing accessibility and inclusivity and offering valuable visual aids for analyzing and interpreting data on cross-border interactions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

<a href="/en/project/GF23-04226L" target="_blank" >GF23-04226L: The Impact of Post-war Population Transfers on the Czech-Polish Cross-border Cooperation</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

journal of cultural geography

ISSN

0887-3631

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

2025(1)

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001412975500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85216744866