City Divided: Place Names and Nationalism in the Czech-Polish Borderlands
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F18%3AA2001XK6" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/18:A2001XK6 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.austriaca.at/8578-9inhalt?frames=yes" target="_blank" >http://www.austriaca.at/8578-9inhalt?frames=yes</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/moegg160s303" target="_blank" >10.1553/moegg160s303</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
City Divided: Place Names and Nationalism in the Czech-Polish Borderlands
Original language description
In our article we analyze the role of place names in the construction of national identities in the Czech-Polish borderlands. The analyzed cities are Český Těšín, Czechia, and Cieszyn, Poland, cities which were created after the division of the original Austrian Silesian city of Těšín/Cieszyn/Teschen between the newly established states of Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1920. Using official maps, archival documents, interviews, and GIS we analyze the transformations of the toponymic landscape on both sides of the state border during the 20th century, identify principal trends and significant differences in different periods and sides of the border, and show how Austrian, German, Czech, Polish and Silesian nationalism - in competition with each other and with other levels of group identification and other political ideologies - have strategically used place names to promote a clear national identification of the city inhabitants in a region of great historical, ethnic and political complexity.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GF16-34841L" target="_blank" >GF16-34841L: The politics and poetics of toponymy, identity and place in multilingual areas. A comparative study of Carinthia, Austria, and the Těšín Region, Czech</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Mitteilungen der Österreichischer Geographischer Gesellschaft
ISSN
0029-9138
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
160
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2018
Country of publishing house
AT - AUSTRIA
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
303-329
UT code for WoS article
000469967100015
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85068981146