Geopolitics in the Forest: A Border of Wilderness

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Geopolitics in the Forest: A Border of Wilderness

Original language description

Based on ethnographic sketches from the Białowieża National Park (Poland, Belarus) between 2005 – 2009, the paper explores the EU external border in this region focusing on the mutual interconnection between the process of the Europeanization of Poland and its eastern border and the simultaneous othering of Belarus and the exotization of its local population. Belarus and its present political regime stand in juxtaposition with the image of Białowieża as the last European natural forest. In the eyes and practices of visitors of the Białowieża National Park, the forest is not only an area of pristine nature, but it is also an important witness of the recent political history of Poland. Th e juxtaposition of the political regime in Belarus and the ancient character of the locality is dynamically used by local population for establishing alliance with, or subversion of, the state. Th e paper discusses diff erent ways in which international borders are established through controversies and negotiations that concern the Białowieża National Park, including the politics of park entry, material barriers, EU standards, global and local arguments about how to protect nature, political tensions between Poland and Belarus, and divergent political interests. Th us, the paper explores the international border as a conservation border involving diff erent schemes of protection within the Polish side of the forest.

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

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

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Cargo

ISSN

1212-4923

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1/2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

5-23

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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