I Thought That Everyone Perceived the Situation Similarly to Me.” The Czech-Polish “Cieszyn-Silesia” Region as a Case of a Polysemic Border

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://austriaca.at/?arp=0x003e39c0" target="_blank" >https://austriaca.at/?arp=0x003e39c0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/moegg164s145" target="_blank" >10.1553/moegg164s145</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
I Thought That Everyone Perceived the Situation Similarly to Me.” The Czech-Polish “Cieszyn-Silesia” Region as a Case of a Polysemic Border
Original language description
This study addresses the issue of “covidfencing” (the resurrection of borders during the COVID-19 pandemic) in the context of the historically and ethnically complex region of Cieszyn Silesia / Těšínské Slezsko / Śląsk Cieszyński / Teschener Schlesien on the Czech-Polish border. Conducting interviews with cross-border workers, representatives of municipalities or cross-border regions, and a street survey in a border town, this study analyses the impacts of covidfencing on this region between March 2020 and March 2021. Applying the concept of Balibar (2002), this study shows that the border between Czechia and Poland in the Cieszyn Silesia region has characteristics of a polysemic border. Some inhabitants experienced the border closure due to the pandemic situation as an existential threat, some organised protests because they perceive the border region as a whole to be their home, some claim that the resurrection of the border did not influence anything in their lives. This study introduces the complex network of cross-border relationships and discusses the possible reasons for different perceptions of the border.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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
50601 - Political science

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical
Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft
ISSN
0029-9138
e-ISSN
2708-0307
Volume of the periodical
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Issue of the periodical within the volume
Dezember
Country of publishing house
AT - AUSTRIA
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
145-168
UT code for WoS article
001033897800004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85159429380

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