FOREWORD // EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION // PREFACE // ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS // PART ONE TERRITORIES AND BOUNDARIES IN // REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION 1 // 1 REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE OTHER 3 // 1.1 Introduction 3 // 1.2 Regional transformation, the social construction of ‘we‘ // and the ‘Other’ 7 // 1.3 Aims of the book 15 // 2 TERRITORIES, BOUNDARIES AND THE DISCOURSE ON POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY 17 // 2.1 Changing spaces and geographies 17 // 2.2 The question of boundaries in geographical // thought 23 // 2.3 Boundaries in the production of territories 27 // 2.4 The institutionalization of regions 31 // 3 TIME, SPACE AND CONSCIOUSNESS: CONSTRUCTING NATIONALISM AND COMMUNICATING BOUNDARIES 39 // 3.1 The national ideal 39 // 3.2 Social integration and spatial scales 42 // 3.3 The changing roles of nationalism 47 // 3.4 National socialization 54 // 3.5 National stereotypes and the Other 59 // 4 METHODOLOGICAL CONTEXTS 62 // 4.1 Socio-spatial consciousness 65 // 4.2 Towards local life 70 // 4.3 A methodological comment 74 // PART TWO THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE FINNISH TERRITORY 77 // 5 NATIONALISM, GEOPOLITICS AND CHANGING TERRITORIES: THE CASE OF FINLAND 79 // 5.1 The rise of the Finnish state and nation 79 // 5.2 Economic and cultural integration 90 // 5.3 Towards independence 95 // 5.4 Territory and the ideological context between the World Wars 97 // 5.5 The Winter War (1939-40) as a territorial conflict 102 // 5.6 The Continuation War and the ideology of territorial expansion 107 // 5.7 The territorial, economic and socio-political consequences of World War II in Finland 113 // 5.8 Location on the ideological boundary of the Cold War: four discourses 120 // 6 THE CHANGING SOCIO-SPATIAL CONSCIOUSNESS 137 // 6.1 Representations of Finnishness and its ‘systemic’ basis 137 // 7 SIGNIFYING TERRITORIALITY: THE CHANGING ROLES OF THE FINNISH-RUSSIAN BOUNDARY 167 //
7.1 The Finnish-Russian boundary and civil society 167 // 7.2 Finnish geographers and the representation of the boundary 180 // 7.3 The Finnish-Russian boundary in geographical textbooks 191 // 7.4 Boundaries, religion and metaphors: an excursion 193 // PART THREE TOWARDS LOCAL EXPERIENCE 201 // 8 PLACE, BOUNDARY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOCAL EXPERIENCE 203 // 8.1 The local scale 203 // 9 REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION ON THE LOCA SCALE: THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF VARTSILA 214 // 9.1 Rising spatial divisions of labour 216 // 9.2 The factory community and its social texture 226 // 9.3 Evacuation and ceding of the area 239 // 9.4 The territorial identification of the inhabitants 253 // 9.5 Territorial transformation and human generations 263 // 9.6 Living in the landscape of war and peace 267 // 9.7 Prisoners of space? Living in the frontier zone 270 // 9.8 Between the Eastern and Western worlds? 273 // 10 BACK TO KARELIA 276 // 10.1 The forms of utopia 276 // 10.2 The fulfilment and disappearance of the utopia 281 // 10.3 Back to Karelia: travelling into the past or into the present? 289 // 11 EPILOGUE: TOWARDS A GLOBAL SENSE OF PLACE 300 // APPENDIX 311 // REFERENCES 317 // NAME INDEX 343 // SUBJECT INDEX 349