Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-36218-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936 studies the relationship between landscape and modern identities in the Basque Country. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines cultural history and geography, it analyses the process of historical construction of the Basque landscape, highlighting its multiple political, social and cultural meanings.

The book is divided into two parts: the first examines the discourses, images and representations of the Basque landscape; the second examines landscape practices through tourism, hiking and mountaineering. Focusing on the Basque case but establishing numerous connections with comparable phenomena in Western Europe, the book demonstrates that the landscape became a structuring element insofar as it helped shape individual identities while participating in the creation of social links. This book examines the processes of identity construction "from below" by means of new interpretative tools, such as the experience of landscape.

This work, originally published in French, brings to an English-speaking audience a crucial issue in the modern history of the Basque Country, namely the cultural construction of a collective identity within the framework of a nation-state, such as Spain, confronted with multiple territorial identities. Approaching this question from the perspective of landscape provides new keys to understanding the processes of nation-building that occurred in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ostolaza, Maitane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acronyms and Abbreviations

PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION



Part One

DISCOURSES, IMAGES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF LANDSCAPE

CHAPTER 1: Narratives of Landscape

Romantic Landscapes, Mythical Landscapes

Landscapes of Fuerismo: Between the Oasis and the Indomitable Mountains

In Search of a Vernacular Landscape

From Region to Nation via Landscape

Regional Landscapes

National Landscapes



CHAPTER 2: The Dissemination of Landscape Discourse and Language: The Role of the Press

The Modern Press and the Dissemination of Landscape Discourse

Journals and Periodicals: Pioneers in Extolling the Basque Landscape

The 1920s Press: Landscape as a Means of Nation Building

The Basque-Language Press and the Popular View of Landscape



Part Two

LANDSCAPE PRACTICES

CHAPTER 3: Tourism and Excursions

Tourism, Identity and Landscape

Excursions

Touristic and Recreational Excursions



CHAPTER 4: Mountaineering, Landscape and Identity

Discovering the Mountains

Landscape and Gender: Women Take to the Mountains

From the Mountains to the Nation: The Mendigoizales



CONCLUSION

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Maitane Ostolaza is Full Professor at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities at the University of Perpignan (France). A specialist on modern Spain, she has published numerous works on the history of religious education in modern Spain as well as on the cultural construction of the Spanish nation. Her latest research focuses on the symbolic and identity values of landscape. Her previous books are Entre religión y modernidad. Los colegios de las congregaciones religiosas en la construcción de la sociedad guipuzcoana contemporánea (1876–1931), 2000; Emoción e identidad nacional: Cataluña y el País Vasco en perspectiva comparada, 2015, co-edited with Géraldine Galeote and Maria Llombart Huesca.