Geospatial concepts of “border”, “borderlands”, “transborderlands”: modernization of the meaning

• Authors: Myroslava Vlakh , Olha Mamchur
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this article, a terminological analysis of the ambivalent geospatial concepts of “border”, “border zone”, which are characterized by a long synonymic row and simultaneously have the semantic load of lines, strips of separation as well as interaction; with account of historical and genetic, natural and geographical, morphological and functional approaches, conceptual and terminological systems of “state border”, “borderlands”, “transborderlands” are analyzed; semantic shifts of the notions of “border”, “border zone”, “frontier” according to the world order tendencies are defined.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
• Journal: Journal of Geography, Politics and Society
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 9-16

Dates

published

2017-06-30

Contributors

author

Myroslava Vlakh

• Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

author

Olha Mamchur

• Ivan Franko National University of Lviv