Researching (in) the Mountains: Transcultural Perspectives on Knowledge Production in the Eastern Carpathians

Kürzlich ist Heft 4/2025 des 74. Jahrgangs der Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies erschienen. Das von den Gastherausgebern Martin Rohde und Filip Herza betreute Heft beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema „Researching (in) the Mountains: Transcultural Perspectives on Knowledge Production in the Eastern Carpathians“. 

"In this special issue, the guest editors suggest reframing the perspective on the Carpathians and its inhabitants by building on recent research discussing 1918/19 not as a sharp break, but as the beginning of a transitional period in which the Habsburg successor states were challenged with administering the imperial legacies, as diverse as the respective regional histories. On the basis of the recent impulses of new imperial history and postcolonial scholarship, in particular Mary Louise Pratt’s framework of the “contact zone,”  they consider the nationally and linguistically diverse Eastern Carpathians a space of transcultural interactions, mobility, and exchange. In the interwar period this region was shaped by shifting power relations, attempts at domination and appropriation by surrounding states and nations. The authors are particularly interested in the various constellations of knowledge production employed by different state-building agents in order to understand, (un)make, and manage difference. The aim is to introduce a methodological approach for the study of the Carpathians and other transcultural mountain regions that will transcend the presented spatial applications."

Die Aufsätze und Besprechungen sind hier [https://www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/issue/view/315] im Open Access verfügbar. Neben einigen Rezensionen enthält das Heft die Beiträge:

Martin Rohde, Filip Herza: Researching (in) the Mountains: Transcultural Perspectives on Knowledge Production in the Eastern Carpathians (S. 483-497), https://doi.org/10.25627/202574411754

Pavlo Leno: Cultivating and Сhallenging Patronizing Images of Subcarpathian Rus (S. 499-535), https://doi.org/10.25627/202574411755

Martin Rohde: (Re-)Imagining Hutsuls in the Interwar Period: Type Photographs in Nationalizing East Central Europe (S. 537-570), https://doi.org/10.25627/202574411756

Jagoda Wierzejska: Protecting Primeval Mountains, Hutsul Distinctiveness, and Hutsuls Themselves: The Eastern Carpathian Nature Conservation Discourse in the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939) (S. 571-604), https://doi.org/10.25627/202574411758

Gergely Romsics: From Rustics to Model Hungarians: The Transformation of Szeklers in Interwar Hungarian Academic Discourse. (S. 605-631), https://doi.org/10.25627/202574411757

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