THE BORDERLAND AND ITS CULTURAL SEPARATENESS

• Authors: Chodubski Andrzej
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In general reflection, the following can be stated: (1) Borderlands are the geographical and cultural reality that reveals itself along with the expanding of geographic horizons, also known as geographical discoveries; (2) In the process of evolutionary changes borderlines are considered in terms of stereotypes: economic backwardness, political conservatism, cultural remoteness; (3) Borderlands as border points of the state are a product of culture, which is shaped at the basis of cultural clashes, interactions and neighbourhood. Borderlands are creations of multiculturalism; (4) In the borderland areas unique personalities are created. These personalities are characterized by a high capacity to adapt to the new civilizational realities. They submit the spiritual values over the economic goods. They attach great importance to the traditional values of cultural life; (5) Borderlands often reveal specific civilizational hybrids. On borderlands opposing processes and phenomena are combined. The dichotomy of internal and external functioning is characteristic for the image of borderlands; the inside and outside concepts of particular borderland reality are both completely different.

Keywords

EN

Borderland; outskirts; center; culture; civilization

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 43
• Pages: 48-63

Contributors

author

Chodubski Andrzej

• University of Gdańsk
• Gdańsk Higher School of Humanities

Identifiers

ISSN

0208-7375