Borderology: Cross-disciplinary Insights from the Border Zone: Along the Green Belt (Springer Geography)

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 decades and, after the Cold War, became a veritable treasure trove for a European network of researchers. A geographical border is something that can be seen, but other borders sometimes have to be crossed to be discovered. The border zone is an arena for development that is not found in any other places. This book focuses on borderology, which became the name of a cross-border study and research program that explores the border zone from multiple perspectives. This cross-disciplinary book will appeal to interested researchers and students from many fields, from philosophy and diplomacy to ecology and geography. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 On Uses of ‘Wild Nature’: Empowered Versus Disempowered Agency in Kola Reindeer Herding Territories (Murmansk Region, NW Russia) (Yulian Konstantinov)....Pages 3-14 Borderlands of Lithuania and Kaliningrad Region of Russia: Preconditions for Comparative Geographic Approach and Spatial Interaction (Eduardas Spiriajevas)....Pages 15-29 Movement to Defend the Białowieża—The Problem of the Białowieża Forest Protection as an Example of a Values Conflict (Małgorzata Bieńkowska, Łukasz Faszcza, Łukasz Wołyniec)....Pages 31-40 Potential, Problems, and Challenges of Joint International Master Programmes: Case-Study of the Joint Norwegian-Russian Master Degree Programme in Borderology (Inna Ryzhkova, Jan Selmer Methi)....Pages 41-54 Front Matter ....Pages 55-55 The Power of Doubt (Boris Sokolov)....Pages 57-68 Nature and Man: Crime and Punishment (Nadezhda Golik)....Pages 69-79 Nature as Stoic (Viggo Rossvaer)....Pages 81-92 What Role Plays Intuition in Mathematics and Science? On the Borders Between Several Conceptions of What It Means to Intuit (Johan Arnt Myrstad)....Pages 93-120 Deconstruction of European Environmental Identity in the Mass Immigration Context Summary (Basia Nikiforova)....Pages 121-131 Front Matter ....Pages 133-133 Man and Nature: Approaches to the Delimitation of Concepts (Viktor R. Tsylev)....Pages 135-147 Borderology and Practical Knowledge—Humanities Response to Epigenetics? (Jan Selmer Methi)....Pages 149-161 Human Existence Between the Forest (Nature) and Home (Technology) (Vasilii M. Voronov)....Pages 163-171 Beyond the Green Shift—Ecological Economics (Ove Jakobsen, Vivi M. L. Storsletten)....Pages 173-183 Myth on the Border Between Man and Nature (Irina Gorina)....Pages 185-194 Front Matter ....Pages 195-195 Cultural Images of Nature as Paradigms of Human Practices (Aleksandr Sautkin)....Pages 197-205 Imagination as a Breaker of the Border (Andrey Vinogradov)....Pages 207-214 Front Matter ....Pages 215-215 Translation in a Hermeneutical Context: Transforming Culture and Human Nature Through Ethics (Andrei Kopylov)....Pages 217-229 The Need for Being Disinterested as a Key Characteristic of Human Nature (Andrei Sergeev)....Pages 231-245 Back Matter ....Pages 247-248