Open AccessRegionalne uniwersum symboliczne Wysp Alandzkich
Author(s) -
Grzegorz Bonusiak
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
sprawy narodowościowe. seria nowa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-2427
pISSN - 1230-1698
DOI - 10.11649/sn.2012.020
Subject(s) - ethnic group , identity (music) , sovereignty , politics , sociology , state (computer science) , ethnology , genealogy , geography , political science , law , anthropology , history , aesthetics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
The Regional Symbolic Universum of the Aland IslandsThe author argues that the inhabitants of the Aland Islands exhibit a separate island identity. He describes the specific historical, geographical, social, political and legal situation of this region on the basis of the elements that constitute the local/regional symbolic universum. He points out that as a result of decades-long manifestations of a sense of separateness and of struggle to preserve and maintain this separateness, a regional culture has come into being, unique and specific to these Islands only. He claims that, based on this regional culture, a distinct ethnic identity has been constructed, which manifests itself as a strong collective WE, a sense that the inhabitants identify with the category “Aland Islander”, yet without establishing a national identity, and with no aspirations for an independent sovereign state.