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The course examines modern European history from the perspective of regionalism and the formation of subnational identities. Furthermore, the course introduces students to the often-overlooked phenomenon of regionalist movements and ideas in their various forms, while stressing its transnational character and connections. In the initial section of the course, regionalism is introduced as an important part of modern European society and culture. Using a range of concrete examples, the course looks at the factors that have led to the emergence of modern regionalism, as well as the resources and means that regionalists have relied upon and utilized in their endeavors. In the second part of the course, specific examples of regional(ist) movements in the late 19th and 20th centuries are discussed, as well as the formation and self-presentation of selected regions across Europe. Poslední úprava: Ira Jaroslav, Mgr., Ph.D. (06.02.2025)
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Graduates of the course will be able to demonstrate an understanding of modern regionalism in its historical context; perceive regionalism in a transnational and comparative perspective; identify the key factors, sources and media of regional identity formation; perceive regionalism in its various manifestations and in relation to other phenomena; distinguish between different types and forms of regionalism; and be familiar with some examples of regionalism and regional identity formation in Europe. In terms of professional competences, students will be able to apply general knowledge to a specific example of a regional or regionalist movement, region or selected area of Europe; they will also learn to view the historical development of Europe in different spatial scales and dimensions; and last but not least, they will learn the basics of theoryvof regions and the latest trends in research on regionalism in history and related fields. Poslední úprava: Ira Jaroslav, Mgr., Ph.D. (06.02.2025)
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To complete the course and obtain 6 ECTS, students have to fulfill all the requirements stated below. The course in concluded by the examination. The examination will be in person and will consist of a talk over the written summary of the literature (c) and the analysis of the example prepared beforehand by the student (d). Students who will opt for 4 ECTS will have reduced requirements. Final grade will depend on the quality of the written assigments and the level of understanding of the topic as proven during oral examination, with the level of students (BA/MA) taken into consideration. Czech grades are 1 (excellent), 2 (very good), 3 (good), 4 (failed). a) Attendance As a rule, maximum of three absences are allowed. Higher numbers of unexcused absences may result in lower grading or even failure.
b) Activity in the class These may comprise of readings assigned for the classes; small homeworks or classworks and short presentations; active participation in discussions
c) Written summary of literature A short critical summary of at least three articles or book chapters (4 credits) or a monograph or five articles or book chapters (6 credits) of the recommended literature
d) Written analysis of an example of regionalism Students can choose between the following options: - The written analysis or interpretation of an example of medium, expression, or practice of regionalism, such as a regional museum, a regionalist text (e.g. manifesto, programmatic text), a piece of art (novel, poetry, painting, music, architecture etc.), a regional periodical, a display of a region at exhibition, a website of a region, a festival, an example of a commodified regional tradition etc. - A short, well-structured and analytical powerpoint focusing on a particular regional movement or an identity-building of a particular region
Poslední úprava: Ira Jaroslav, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2025)
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Study literature
Basic Núñez Seixas, Xosé Manoel and Eric Storm (eds.). Regionalism and Modern Europe: Identity Construction and Movements from 1890 to the Present Day. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Recommended
1. books: monographs and collective volumes Appplegate, Celia. A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat, Berkeley – Los Angeles – Oxford 1990. Augusteijn, Joost and Eric Storm (eds.). Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation Building, Regional Identities and Separatism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Baycroft, Timothy and David Hopkin, Folklore and Nationalism in Europe during the Long Nineteenth Century, Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2012. Clowes, Edith W., Gisela Erbslöh and Ani Kokobobo (eds.). Russia’s Regional Identities. The Power of the Provinces, London – New York: Routledge, 2018. Conn, Steven. Americans against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century. Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Ellis, Steven G., Raingard Esser, Jean-Francois Berdah and Miloš Řezník (eds.), Frontiers, regions and identities in Europe, Pisa: Edizioni plus, 2009. Fischer, Christopher J. Alsace to the Alsatians? Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870–1939, New York – London: Berghahn Books, 2010. Gerson, Stéphane, The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard, Michael G. Müller and S.J. Woolf (eds.), Regional and national identities in Europe in the XIXth and XXth centuries, Hague 1998. Hume, Sara. Regional Dress: Between Tradition and Modernity. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Lounsbery, Anne, Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800-1917, NIU Press, 2019. Lubczyńska, Aleksandra, Regionalizm kielecki w latach 1918-1939, Kielce Kielske Towarzystwo Naukowe, 2008. Mikołajczak, Małgorzata and Chojnowski, Zbigniew (eds.). Regionalizm literacki w Polsce. Zarys historyczny i wybór źródeł. Kraków: Universitas, 2016. Secklehner, Julia, Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis, London: Routledge, 2025. Storm, Eric: The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions in France, Germany and Spain, 1890–1939, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. Szejnmann, Claus-Christian W. and Maiken Umbach (eds.), Heimat, Region, and Empire: Spatial Identities under National Socialism. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Ther, Philipp – Holm Sundhaussen (eds.): Regionale Bewegungen und Regionalismen in europäischen Zwischenräumen seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Marburg: Herder-Institut Verlag, 2003. Umbach, Maiken (ed.). German Federalism. Past, Present, Future. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002. Wright, Julian, The Regionalist Movement in France, 1890–1914: Jean Charles‐Brun and French Regional Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
2. Articles and book chapters Afinoguénova, Eugenia, An Organic Nation: State-Run Tourism, Regionalism, and Food in Spain, 1905–193, The Journal of Modern History 86 (December 2014): 743– 779. Appplegate, Celia, A Europe of Regions: Reflections on the Historiography of Sub-National Places in Modern Times, The American Historical Review, Vol. 104, No. 4, (Oct. 1999), pp. 1157-1182. Berger, Stefan & Aleksey Miller, Nation-building and regional integration, c.1800–1914: the role of empires, European Review of History—Revue européenne d'histoire, 15:3, 2008, 317-330. Bouchard, Carl, Regionalism, Federalism and Internationalism in First World War France, in: Julian Wright and H. S. Jones (eds.), Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 198-214. Crang, Mike, Nation, region and homeland: history and tradition in Dalarna, Sweden, Ecumene, Vol. 6, No. 4, (October 1999), pp. 447-470. Gavrilova, Sofia, Redefining the Soviet krayevedeniye: The role of spatial science in the Soviet system of knowledge production, Journal of Historical Geography, 75 (2022), 14-23. Ira, Jaroslav, Regionalism and the (Re-)Construction of Subnational Communities: Chodsko and Kdyně in South-Western Czechoslovakia, 1918-1948, in: Aleksander Łupienko (ed.). Urban Communities and Memories in East-Central Europe in the Modern Age, Abingdon: Routledge, 2025, pp. 193-213. Kührer-Wielach, Florian: A Counter-Community between Regionalism and Nationalism: State-Building and the Vision of Modernisation in Interwar Romania, in: Stefan Couperus and Harm Kaal (eds.), (Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968: Senses of Belonging Below, Beyond and Within the Nation State, New York – London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 87-107. Lenderová, Milena and Jiránek,Tomáš, Vývoj českého regionalismu v období mezi světovými válkami, Sociologický Časopis / Czech Sociological Review, Vol. 29, Issue 3 (1993), 383-396. Núñez, Xosé-Manoel & Maiken Umbach. Hijacked Heimats: national appropriations of local and regional identities in Germany and Spain, 1930–1945, European Review of History—Revue européenne d'histoire, 15:3, 2008, 295-316. Núñez, Xosé-Manoel. The Region as Essence of the Fatherland:Regionalist Variants of Spanish Nationalism (1840–1936). European History Quarterly, 31(4), (2001), 483-518. Odriozola Otamendi, Asier. Defining Basque music: Charles Bordes' (1863–1909) musical regionalism and influence in the Basque Country and Paris. Nations and Nationalism, 28(4), 2022, 1411–1427. Paasi, Anssi, Bounded Spaces in the Mobile World: Deconstructing ‘Regional Identity’, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Vol. 93, No. 2, 2002, 137–148. Paasi, Anssi, The resurgence of the ‘Region’ and ‘Regional Identity’: theoretical perspectives and empirical observations on regional dynamics in Europe, Review of International Studies, 35 (2009), 121–146. Paasi, Anssi and Metzger, Jonathan, Foregrounding the region, Regional Studies, 51, No. 1 (2017), 9-30. Parker, Harry. The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain. History of the Human Sciences, 36(3-4), 2023, 3-26. Reiterová, Martina, "Une arme de premier ordre": Representation of Breton and Welsh in revivalist discourse around 1900. Litteraria Pragensia, Vol. 30, No. 59, 2020, 62-76. Rosenboim, Or. The Spatiality of Politics: Cesare Battisti’s Regional and International Thought, 1900–1916, Modern Intellectual History 19, 2022, 397–420. Secklehner, Julia, A New Austrian Regionalism: Alfons Walde and Austrian Identity in Painting after 1918, Austrian History Yearbook 52, 2021, 201–226. Schmitt-Egner, Peter, “The Concept of 'Region': Theoretical and Methodological Notes on its Reconstruction”, Journal of European Integration, 24, No. 3, 2002, 179-200. Storm, Eric, Nation-building in the Provinces: The Interplay between Local, Regional and National Identities in Central and Western Europe, 1870–1945”, European History Quarterly 42(4), 2012, 650–663. Storm, Eric, Painting Regional Identities: Nationalism in the Arts, France, Germany and Spain, 1890–1914. European History Quarterly 39(4), 2009, pp. 557–582. Storm, Eric, Regionalism in History, 1890–1945: The Cultural Approach”, European History Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2003, pp. 251-265. Thiesse, Anne-Marie, Les deux identite´s de la France, Modern & Contemporary France, 9(1), 2001, 9–18. Umbach, Maiken, Introduction, European Review of History—Revue europe´enne d’histoire, Vol. 15, No. 3, June 2008, pp. 235–242. Wright, Julian & Christopher Clark, Regionalism and the state in France and Prussia. European Review of History—Revue européenne d'histoire, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2008, pp. 277-293. Poslední úprava: Ira Jaroslav, Mgr., Ph.D. (06.02.2025)
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The course will combine lectures with more interactive and seminar forms of work. Please note that the teaching methods will be specified at the beginning of the semester and adjusted to the number of registered students. Poslední úprava: Ira Jaroslav, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2025)
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Part of the readings for the class will be available in Moodle. The link and access key to Moodle will be provided to registered students after the end of the registration deadline. Furthermore, students are recommended to use Charles University accounts, or their home university accounts, to access recommended literature in various digital databases. Students are also encouraged to use Library of the Faculty of Arts (at the underground floor of the main building) or National Library (which is very close to the main building of the Faculty). While the basic recommended list of literature consists mostly of English titles, students are welcome to use appropriate literature in other languages as well. Poslední úprava: Ira Jaroslav, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2025)
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The course is open to students at all levels. While the course is primarily designed for students of history, students of other disciplines are welcome, though at least the basic knowledge of modern European history is recommended. Poslední úprava: Ira Jaroslav, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2025)
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