Conflicting images of the Zuider Zee around 1900: nation-building and the struggle against water

Pater, Ben de

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“…The shipping on this shallow river was reduced to local traffic. The Linge became the mirror image to the modernity and economic importance of the Waal (Heezik ; Kaïka ; Pater ; Waterschap ).…”

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“…Its insignificance and poor water quality as a slow flowing open sewer was also stressed by mythical stories that located its source under a dung heap near Nijmegen. The Linge thus became during the nineteenth century a symbol for the failure of men to control nature and thus contradicted the Dutch national identity based on the epic struggle of the people against water, which was seen as a domestic enemy threatening the nation (Kaïka ; Pater ). The Linge became the symbol for the problems in this waterlogged agricultural area.…”

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“…This negative image of the Linge as the deviation from Dutch modernity was dominant, but not unchallenged, in Dutch public opinion. This future‐oriented modern conceptualization of Dutch national identity was opposed by a counter‐image treasuring what were claimed to be old authentic Dutch landscapes (Knippenberg ; Pater ). Since the 1960s, the growing opposition to the then dominant modernist perspective gave a new impetus to this more romantic view of the Dutch landscape.…”

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The creation of a national identity shared by the whole population becomes increasingly difficult in individualizing and globalizing national societies. The national population fragments into many lifestyle groups with very different social and cultural orientations. The enactment of these different lifestyle identities during leisure activities accentuates these differences. However, these different identities are sometimes performed on the same spatial stage. The main part of this article analyses the use of the dike along the river Linge, a part the Rhine estuary, which, lined with apple trees, cuts through an iconic Dutch river landscape with polders, old villages and meadows with quietly grazing cattle. Especially during the weekends, it is a stage crowded by walkers, cyclists, classic car drivers, and motorcyclists. The importance attached to this river dike is linked to a shared traditional form of Dutch collective national identity. The different uses of the river dike are based to the diverging values on which the different lifestyles are based. This results in conflicts over the use of and access to the dike. The role of the state in regulating these conflicts results in a more limited form of national identity.

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Section: Setting the Stage: The Changing Role Of The Appeldijk In Thementioning

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Section: Setting the Stage: The Changing Role Of The Appeldijk In Thementioning

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Place-identity and renewed materialism in geopolitics: towards an analytical approach?

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Where Classical Geopolitics sees a determinate effect of geography on politics, Critical Geopolitics sees the production of selective geographical knowledge and seeks to expose and displace it. Central to this critique is a concept of identity as a product of mental and material practices that erect a difference of the 'Self' in relation to a threatening 'Other'. Similar logics are present in critical studies of nationalism when they deal with the geopolitical practices that shaped nations, states and their identities. Nevertheless, this logic of relational identity formation is open to criticism too. Because apart from identity formation that depends on social categories, roles and significant 'others', an underlying literature also accepts a broader understanding of identity with references on material artefacts and significant places. This means that, under certain conditions, material geography might be constitutive of a 'place-identity' that feeds into national identity. To even consider this possibility, however, it is necessary to avoid the heavy-duty caveat of essentialism and determinism. In this regard, engaging with New Materialism, the article approaches geography in terms of its on-going materialization in identity formation processes. Such a renewed materialism implies certain limits on the capacity of politics to 'master space'.

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Conflicting images of the Zuider Zee around 1900: nation-building and the struggle against water

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