The internal Other: Exploring the dialectical relationship between regional exclusion and the construction of national identity Внутренний Другой : диалектические взаимосвязи между конструированием региональных и национальных идентичностей

Societies have historically sought to spatialize difference – to other – even within the boundaries of supposedly unified polities. Drawing on previous scholarship on the spatialization of difference in published case studies, we examine the dialectical relationship between the formation and institutionalization of regions, on the one hand, and the nation-building process more broadly on the Other. Certain regions become repositories for undesirable national traits as part of a dialectical process of nation and region building. The processes of othering are rarely as linear and tidy as proposed in some current formulations of the theory; rather, othering involves a host of concomitant processes that work together to produce economically and culturally differentiated regions. The processes by which particular places or regions become “othered” are not only interesting in the abstract but also carry with them enduring material consequences. To demonstrate this effect, we visit two historical case studies that examine the formation of internal Others in nineteenth-century Europe (Italy and Germany). The article was translated by Dmitry Mitin exclusively for “Cultural Geographies & Geohumanities” with kind permission of the authors and Taylor & Francis Ltd. on behalf of Association of American Geographers. The original paper was published in the Annals of the Association of American geographers. 2012. Vol. 102. No. 4. P. 863-880. Статья посвящена попыткам наций подчеркнуть свои особенности и локализовать Другого даже в рамках формально единых политико-географических образований. Анализируется диалектическая взаимосвязь между формированием и институционализацией регионов и региональных идентичностей, с одной стороны, и нациестроительством, с другой. Авторы обращаются к двум кейс-стади, изучающим возникновение внутреннего Другого в Германии и Италии XIX в. Перевод статьи с английского выполнен Д.И. Митиным специально для журнала Культурная и гуманитарная география с любезного разрешения авторов, Ассоциации американских географов и Taylor & Francis Ltd. по изданию: Johnson C., Coleman A. The internal Other: Exploring the dialectical relationship between regional exclusion and the construction of national identity // Annals of the Association of American geographers. 2012. Vol. 102. No. 4. P. 863-880.