Core, Periphery, Frontier – Spatial Patterns of Power

Contributions by Christoph Ulf Contributions by Diana Ordubadi Contributions by Daniel F. Schley Contributions by Detlev Taranczewski Contributions by Stefan Breuer Contributions by Anna Flückiger Contributions by Jan Kusber Contributions by Peter Schwieger Contributions by Ishayahu Landa Contributions by Karl Friday Contributions by Christian Freigang Contributions by Martin Büchsel Contributions by Ludwig D. Morenz Contributions by Satoru Kuroshima Contributions by Dittmar Dahlmann Contributions by Jan Bemmann Edited by Jan Bemmann Edited by Dittmar Dahlmann Edited by Detlev Taranczewski

Book cover: Core, Periphery, Frontier – Spatial Patterns of Power

Extent: 406 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Cultural Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(January 2021)

ISBN: 9783847112389

6.3 x 9.25 inches

Price: $87.00

In stock

Aus einer breiten Palette methodisch wie regional unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen werden in diesem Band Einzelstudien prasentiert, die einem weiten Raum – von Mitteleuropa im Westen, Japan im Osten und Agypten im Suden – entstammen. Davon ausgehend, dass die Betrachtung raumlicher Aspekte dazu beitragen kann, neue Erkenntnisse uber die Phanomene ‘Macht’ und ‘Herrschaft’ zu gewinnen, werden die verschiedenen Weisen der Raumproduktion untersucht. Der gemeinsame Fokus aller Beitrage ist die Rolle einer Dichotomie von Zentrum / Kerngebiet und Peripherie / Grenzen in einem reprasentierten, vorgestellten Raum. Diese Fokussierung erleichtert es, transkulturelle Ahnlichkeiten und Ansatze historischen Vergleichens auszumachen.


Centre’ and ‘periphery’, two notions essential in the discourse of power and domination, tend to be reificated as a static, inert relation of an active, dominating centre on one side with an acquiescent, docile periphery on the other. Far before a ‘spatial turn’ came into vogue, philosophers like Immanuel Kant or sociologists such as Georg Simmel pointed out that space is not an entity existing besides human perceptiveness respectively without any relation to society. In this book specialists in the history of various premodern societies are discussing manifold kinds of spatial differentiations and within that the role of a seemingly ubiquitous dichotomy between centre/core and periphery/frontier. The researches cover a vast region spanning from Central Europe in the West to Japan in the Farthest East and Egypt in the South.

  • Contributions by Christoph Ulf
  • Contributions by Diana Ordubadi
  • Contributions by Daniel F. Schley
  • Contributions by Detlev Taranczewski
  • Contributions by Stefan Breuer
  • Contributions by Anna Flückiger
  • Contributions by Jan Kusber
  • Contributions by Peter Schwieger
  • Contributions by Ishayahu Landa
  • Contributions by Karl Friday
  • Contributions by Christian Freigang
  • Contributions by Martin Büchsel
  • Contributions by Ludwig D. Morenz
  • Contributions by Satoru Kuroshima
  • Contributions by Dittmar Dahlmann
  • Contributions by Jan Bemmann
  • Edited by Jan Bemmann
  • Edited by Dittmar Dahlmann
  • Edited by Detlev Taranczewski