Challenges to Frontier Allegories: the Caspian Sea Region in Southern Russia

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CONTENTS

ALLEGORIES OF IMPERIALISM: BARBARIANS AND
WORLD CULTURES

I-Chun Wang & Asun López-Varela 7
Allegories of Imperialism: Barbarians and World Cultures

David Lea 17
Sovereignty, Linguistic Imperialism and the Quantification of
Reality

Abobo Kumbalonah 31
The Invention of a Philosophy: Postcolonialism in the Context of
Akan Proverbs

Antonia Peroikou 45
Speaking (of) the Unspoken: Exploring the Mystery behind Friday’s
Severed Tongue in Coetzee’s Foe

Temisanren Ebijuwa &Adeniyi Sulaiman Gbadegesin 57
Mediating Ethnic Identities: Reaching Consensus through Dialogue
in an African Society

Shiuhhuah Serena Chou 71
Claiming the Sacred: Indigenous Knowledge, Spiritual Ecology, and
the Emergence of Eco-cosmopolitanism

Stephen Joyce 85
The Fearful Merging of Self and Other: Intra-civilizational and
Inter-civilizational Colonial Cultures in Richard E. Kim’s Lost
Names
Oxana Karnaukhova 99
Tracing the Roots of Colonial History and Orientology in Russia

Michaela Keck 115
Culture-Crossing in Madison Smartt Bell’s Haitian Trilogy and
Neo-Captivity Narrative

Mary Theis 129
Ideal Isolation for the Greater Good: The Hazards of Postcolonial
Freedom

Maximiliano Korstanje 145
Constructing the Other by Means of Hospitality: the Case of
Argentina

Liudmila Baeva & Anna Romanova 159
Challenges to Frontier Allegories: the Caspian Sea Region in
Southern Russia

Soon-ok Myong & Byong-soon Chun 173
Cultural Politics of Otherizing Hijabed Muslims in Kazakhstan

Nurlykhan Aljanova & Karlygash Borbassova 18(cid:26)
Etiquette Rules and Intercultural Relations in Kazakh Society after
Independence from the Soviet Union

Jinghua Guo 197
The Multi-dimensional Model of Cross-Cultural Interpretation as
an Anti-centralist Tool in World Literature Perspectives

Huiyong Wu 211
The Impact of Confucianism on Chinese Representations of
Japanese Imperialism as well as on International Relations

Simon C. Estok 221
Bull and Barbarity, Feeding the World
10.5840/cultura201512112
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Challenges to Frontier Allegories: the Caspian Sea Region
in Southern Russia
Liudmila Baeva
Faculty of Social Communications
Astrakhan State University, Russia, Tatischeva, 20 a
[email protected]
Anna Romanova
Humanitarian Institute
Astrakhan State University, Russia, Tatischeva, 20 a
[email protected]
Abstract. This contribution is devoted to frontier theory, the analysis of its
conceptual apparatus as well as its topical issues and practical application. We
propose a revision of this theory, and confront the usefulness of the term “frontier”
with other the similar concepts such as border, boundary and limit. The paper also
proposes a typology of frontiers characterized by various aspects; civilization,
intercultural, religious, and anthropological, among other. From the standpoint of
this discussion, the authors consider the Southern Russian bordering region of the
Caspian Sea, today a much conflicted territory.
Keywords: borderlands, Caspian Sea Region, frontier typology, frontier theory,
Southern Russia
INTRODUCTION
The issue of studying the conditions in boundary areas is of interest to
different disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences. Thus,
this kind of research is usually interdisciplinary, covering disciplines such
as history, cultural science, philosophy, political science, social science,
economics, and so on. The origin of the theoretical study of borders can
be traced back to Frederick Jackson Turner, a professor at University of
Wisconsin who explored the colonization of America by the English and
French and in his essay “The Significance of the Frontier in American
History” formulated the ideas of what came to be known as “Frontier
Thesis”. The essay was presented at the American Historical Associa-
tion conference in 1893, and published later that year in Proceedings of the
State Historical Society of Wisconsin and in the Annual Report of the American
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Historical Association. It was subsequently reprinted and incorporated in
Chapter I of Turner’s 1921 book, The Frontier in American History.
Turner believed that many, if not all, cultural traits related to North
American individualism and its history of success, also known as “The
American Dream” were directly related to the country’s Westward ex-
pansion. In particular, he saw the arrival of the pioneers into the wilder-
ness as fundamental in the creation of new environments. For Turner,
these men and women released their mindsets from European models
and dysfunctional habits and gave way to a special cultural type, charac-
terized by his/her sense of practicality, optimism and unlimited oppor-
tunity. This new frame of mind helped develop the belief in the power to
tame the wild and stablish civilization with individual determination.
The similarities of Turner’s evolutionary thesis of success and Euro-
pean accounts of colonial expansion during the 19th century exemplify
the particular “imperialist” approach characteristic of this historical peri-
od, revealing the limits of Turner’s ideas which ignored gender and race,
downplayed land scarcity and the wastefulness of natural resources, and
left no room for ecological concerns, nor for the victims of the
colonization (the local Indian communities in the case of the US). How-
ever, his influence in the United States was such that by the time of his
death in 1932, 60% of the leading history departments in American uni-
versities were teaching courses in Frontier Theory (Bogue, 1994: 195).
When considering territorial space, various terms with different
attributes attached to them are in use. Some of the variations are in ac-
cordance with linguistic etymology, and some are more frequently used
in certain disciplines and less in others. Borders, boundaries, edges, ends,
frontiers and limits are some of the terms used to split space into parts,
zones, areas and territories. In their paper “Borders, frontiers and limits:
some computational concepts beyond words,” Sébastien Gadal and
Robert Jeansoulin propose the following classification, depending on the
etymology of the terms:

Tables reproduced from Gadal, Sébastien and Robert Jeansoulin. “Borders, frontiers
and limits: some computational concepts beyond words.”
Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography
English Corresponding Etymology First meaning Derived Concept
entry (French entry) words
border [bordure] (old French an outer edge bordering to terminate
bort, ship’s of something, (Fr.
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