Imagining the periphery and the centre of the world. An exploration of the global and transnational aspects of nation building in Belgium and New Zealand during the 19th and 20th centuries .

This comparative project will examine the tension between centre and periphery in national identity construction in Belgium and New Zealand during the 19th and 20th centuries. To compensate for their small size, lack of international clout and peripheral position, both have imagined themselves as frontier nations. The global perspective is present at three different levels: content (representation), analysis (explanation) and methodology (spatial scales)

Keywords:NATIONS AND NATIONALISM, TRANSNATIONAL AND WORLD HISTORY

Disciplines:History