Territorial Identity: The Ambiguity of a Geographical Concept
Guermond, Yves
Territorial Identity: The Ambiguity of a Geographical Concept - 2007.
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Territorial identity, which is initially an individual feeling restricted to a small area, is instrumentalised politically, via a change of scale, in order to construct regional or national identities. The current debate on heritage is an attempt to provide a cultural justification to these constructs in order to perpetuate them. Democratic justifications may also be put forward, mainly as a bulwark against a universalisation of ideological conflicts. However, Europe's nation-states do not seem to be able to play this role.
Territorial Identity: The Ambiguity of a Geographical Concept - 2007.
75
Territorial identity, which is initially an individual feeling restricted to a small area, is instrumentalised politically, via a change of scale, in order to construct regional or national identities. The current debate on heritage is an attempt to provide a cultural justification to these constructs in order to perpetuate them. Democratic justifications may also be put forward, mainly as a bulwark against a universalisation of ideological conflicts. However, Europe's nation-states do not seem to be able to play this role.
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