Contested borders : territorialization, national identity and "imagined geographies" in Albania /
Ilir Kalemaj.
- 1 online resource (290 pages).
- Nationalisms across the globe, volume 15 1662-9116 ; .
- Nationalisms across the globe ; v. 15. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Delineating the playing field : virtual borders and imagined geographies -- Boundary mapping and territorialization of identity -- From nation-building to state-formation : how virtual mapping intersected with recognized borders in the Albanian imagination -- The interwar period, various shifts in the configuration of boundaries at elite level and national imagining amongst Albanians in Albania and abroad : from contractionary to expansionary and vice-versa -- From greater Albania during the Second World War to contractionary borders during the communist era -- Reimagining territorial landscape and mental borders in the post-communist and democratic transition era.
9783035306583 (e-book)
Territory, National--Albania. Albanians--Ethnic identity. Elite (Social sciences)--Albania. National characteristics, Albanian.