Territorial Identities in Different Spatial Scales

The presentation would be built on a number of contrasts. The European identity would be contrasted to the non-existent Asian identity. Ethnic identites would be contrasted to territorial identities. National minorities would be contrasted to ethnic minorities and the formalism of the differentiation would be indicated. The 'national' scale of nationalisms would be questioned by indicating the regional scale of some nationalisms. The strict relation between border communities and current borders would be questioned. National, ethnic, and regional univalence would be contrasted to bi-, poly-, and ambivalence. New nation creation processes in established national contexts would be discussed in terns of the strategy of the transformation of regional in national identities.