Nature and Identity in the Construction of the Romanian Concept of Nation

被引：2

作者：

Nicolescu, Valentin Quintus ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Nicolae Titulescu Univ, Bucharest 040051, Romania

来源：

ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY | 2014年 / 20卷 / 01期

关键词：

Imagined community; national identity; nature and nation; Romanian exceptionalism;

D O I：

10.3197/096734014X13851121443526

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

In this article I explore the role played by nature in the construction of the discourse of Romanian national identity. What was the perceived relation between the human community and the natural realm? How was the natural landscape transformed into a constitutive part of the national discourse? Could nature be seen as an essential identity marker for Romanian nationhood, thus shaping a form of Romanian exceptionalism? What form does this exceptionalist view take in the Romanian case? I highlight how the concept of an imagined national community was developed by the Romanian political and intellectual elite of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the role played by nature in the shaping of this discourse of identity.

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页码：123 / 141

页数：19