Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia

1.       Introduction  

Geographers as Nation Builders   

Nationalist Geographical Narratives   

A Time of Geographers in East Central Europe   

Multi-leveled Geographies of Yugoslavia  

Spatial Dimension of a Nation

 

2.       The Emerging Geographical Network in Yugoslavia 

Institutionalization of Geography in the Yugoslav Lands  

Anthropogeography Between History and Ethnology  

Trapped Between Primitiveness and Civilization  

Studying Race  

Teaching Geography at Universities   

 

3.       Jovan Cvijic and the Anthropogeography of the Balkans 

The Center of the Network  

A Geomorphologist's Vision of Anthropogeography  

Shifting Attention from Serbian to Yugoslav Lands  

The War That Changed the Perspective  

The Proof That Yugoslavia Exists  

 

4.       Geographical Narration of Yugoslavia 

Creating Yugoslavia in Paris  

Croatian and Slovenian Geographical Narratives of Yugoslavia

Disillusionment of Cvijic  

Early Works of Filip Lukas: The Yugoslavist Phase of a Croatian Nationalist 

Unity Built on Fragments 

Slovenian Perspectives on the Geography of Yugoslavia 

A Beneficial Cohabitation: Slovenia and Yugoslavia 

If Only Yugoslavia Could Become Like France 

 

5.       Geopolitical Visions of Yugoslavia

Improving the Geographical Literacy of the Nation 

Ivo Pilar on the Trauma of 1918 

Embracing the Geopolitik 

Czechoslovak and Polish Lessons for Yugoslavia 

The Reluctant Geopolitics of Anton Melik 

Challenging the Geopolitical Paradigm

 

6.       The Fight of Filip Lukas Against Yugoslavia

Echoes and Definitions 

Denaturalizing Yugoslavia, Naturalizing Croatia 

Toward a Right-Wing Geographical Vision of the Croatian Nation 

Ethnology Against Geopolitics

Geography in the Time of Fascism 

 

7.       Conclusion