Rajamaa ja häviämisen mielenmaisema: Kuvastotulkintaa Transilvaniasta ja Karjalasta1
The subject of our study is the landscape representationsof two mythical provinces, claimed tobe part of the national cultural heritage. RomanianTransylvania (in Romanian Ardeal, in Hungarian Erdély,in German Siebenbürgen) is compared withthe formerly Finnish part of Karelia now belongingto Russia....
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Finnish |
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Alue- ja ympäristötutkimuksen seura
2006
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| Online Access: | https://aluejaymparisto.journal.fi/article/view/64293 |
| Summary: | The subject of our study is the landscape representationsof two mythical provinces, claimed tobe part of the national cultural heritage. RomanianTransylvania (in Romanian Ardeal, in Hungarian Erdély,in German Siebenbürgen) is compared withthe formerly Finnish part of Karelia now belongingto Russia. Both regions are ever changing interfaceswhich define landscape as a part of the nationalnarrative. Landscape representations from bothceded areas are mutually compared. Our analysisis based on popular accounts and documentaryworks. We describe the transboundary discourseof the past decades using the concept of landscapereading. Heritage appears to be produced by textualinterpretation especially when the main objective isto rearticulate the meanings of religious landscape.The past still becomes framed as national or ethnic,which maintains the image of the Eastern neighbouras an Other. Portrayals of landscape changesare based on vanishing buildings. Being faced withrelics activates collective remembrance of loss andexpectations of justifications for history in the formof heritage safeguard. |
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