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

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

Author(s): Myroslava Vlakh, Olha Mamchur
Subject(s): Politics, Human Geography, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: concept; border; frontier; borderlands; region; transborderlands

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 7/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 9-16
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English