Abstrakt
In my proposed dissertation project, starting in October 2022, I will trace, in the given period and on the example of this particular region, how borders and boundaries are formed and perceived within tourism as a social movement, how borders and boundaries influence expansion of tourism and how these processes are related to the relationship between human and non-human actors (such as mountain peaks, changes of the landscape character or the bark beetle). The project will work with different notions of borders and boundaries (those perceived as "natural", national, ethnic, infrastructural, etc.) and their mutual interactions.
Given the region and time period, the project will cover several changes of the location of the state borders and the regime of their crossings (1918, 1938, 1945) as well changes in the perceptions of ethnic borders. In addition to cultural approaches to the history of tourism (Haller 1995, Pelc 2009, Wöhler/Pott/Denzer 2010), it should be based more strongly on the perspective of historically oriented border studies (Judson 2006, Murdock 2010, Haslinger 2010) and environmental history, especially new materialism (Hoenig 2018, Chakrabarty 2009, LeCain 2015 and 2017, Moore 2016).
In the presentation, I would like to discuss the theoretical approaches, which will be later used to interpret the particular archive sources (especially guidebooks, travelogues, newspaper articles and other materials produced mainly by the touristic associations).