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Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia

Part of the Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50259-1

ISBN: 978-3-030-50258-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 22, 2020

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Introduction

Duančić, Vedran

Pages: 1 –21

[By pointing to an uncertainty regarding some of the fundamental markers of Yugoslavia’s statehood following its establishment in December 1918, this chapter argues that geography became so publicly prominent because geographers devised what seemed to be a unifying narrative framework that...
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The Emerging Geographical Network in Yugoslavia

Duančić, Vedran

Pages: 23 –48

[The chapter inquires whether a “Yugoslav” geography was created following the establishment of a Yugoslav state, or whether several “national” traditions continued to develop parallel. Duančić points to the formative experience of studying in Vienna that most Yugoslav geographers shared, the...
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Jovan Cvijić and the Anthropogeography of the Balkans

Duančić, Vedran

Pages: 49 –94

[The chapter approaches the best-known Serbian and Yugoslav geographer, Jovan Cvijić, as a center of the Yugoslav geographical network, focusing on his communication with colleagues in Yugoslavia and abroad, especially with Albrecht Penck. Duančić points to Cvijić’s complex professional...
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Geographical Narration of Yugoslavia

Duančić, Vedran

Pages: 95 –145

[The chapter examines the role of geographers in creating the Yugoslav state in two connected yet parallel processes. One refers to the actions of Jovan Cvijić as a member of the Yugoslav delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, who has received much scholarly attention. Duančić, however,...
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Geopolitical Visions of Yugoslavia

Duančić, Vedran

Pages: 147 –188

[Starting with the interwar debate over the relationship between political geography and geopolitics, Duančić examines how Yugoslav geographers appropriated geopolitical “vocabulary” and reasoning to address some of the fundamental issues troubling Yugoslavia, including the question of quality of...
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The Fight of Filip Lukas Against Yugoslavia

Duančić, Vedran

Pages: 189 –242

[The chapter focuses on the Croatian historian and geographer Filip Lukas, who since the mid-1920s promulgated a tempting historical-geographical narrative that aimed at deconstructing the Yugoslav state. Lukas denied Yugoslavia a future based on what he and other Croatian nationalists saw as...
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Conclusion

Duančić, Vedran

Pages: 243 –251

[The chapter reflects on the nature and reasons for the apparent de-politicization of geography in socialist Yugoslavia after the Second World War. It points to a disciplinary development and the overall political climate in the country that were not conducing to its political engagement. The...

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