L’INVENTION DE LA «GRANDE» ROUMANIE: NATIONALISME TERRITORIAL ET PRATIQUE GÉOGRAPHIQUE JUSQU’AU LENDEMAIN DE LA PREMIÈRE GUERRE MONDIALE
Journal Title: Revue Roumaine de Géographie/Romanian Journal of Geography - Year 2019, Vol 63, Issue 1
Abstract
Greater Romania – an invention: territorial nationalism and geographical practice until the First World War came to an end. The role of geography in building the Romanian national imaginary during the nineteenth and early twentieth century was far more instrumental than is generally recognized. So far, there is an absence of a proper research focusing on the broader geopolitical ideology of a «Greater» Romania – an expression used to designate the idealized extension of the Romanian national territory. By exploring little-known materials showing the early engagement of cartographers, geographers and the military in Romanian national construction, this paper aims to contribute new arguments for critical reflection and to begin to fill this lacuna. It will suggest that the Romanian territorial ideology developed in this period reflected both external, western ideas and concepts as well as indigenous intellectual traditions. We therefore reconsider the role of geographical imagination, territoriality and spatiality in the historical construction of the Romanian national identity and the expansionism of the Romanian nation-state through cartographic and geopolitical calculation in an attempt to understand the links between geopolitical projection and geopolitical practice.
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DORU ADRIAN LIXANDRU
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