Borderology: Cross-disciplinary Insights from the Border Zone Along the Green Belt /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Methi, Jan Selmer (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sergeev, Andrei (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bieńkowska, Małgorzata (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Nikiforova, Basia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Geography,
• Subjects: Nature conservation.; Philosophy of nature.; Cultural geography.; Peace.; Ethnology.; Diplomacy.; Nature Conservation.; Philosophy of Nature.; Cultural Geography.; Peace Studies.; Social Anthropology.

This book provides a unique and multifaceted view on and understanding of borders and their manifestations: physical and mental, cultural and geographical, and as a question of life and death. It highlights the Green Belt along the Iron Curtain, which offered a haven for rare species for many decade...

Table of Contents:

• The ethics of translation in a hermeneutical context
• Preconditions for comparative geographic approach and spatial interaction
• Symbolization process of the nature world in mythological type of world outlook
• On uses of 'wild nature': empowered vs. Disempowered agency in kola reindeer-herding territories
• Imagination as a breaker of the borders
• Man and nature: approaches to the delimitation of the concepts
• The need for being disinterested as a key characteristic of human nature
• Nature and man: crime and punishment
• Nature as stoic
• Movement to defend the bialowieża. the problem of the bialowieża forest protection as an example of a values conflict
• The power of doubt
• Cultural images of nature as the basis of human practices
• Human existence between the wood(s) (forest, nature) and home (technology)
• Borderology and practical knowledge - humanities response to epigenetic.