The Primeval Forest at the Belarusian Border in Poland: Constituting and Crossing Borders
Résumé
On the border between Poland and Belarus a forest protection controversy intertwines with a border problem. Europe's last low-land old growth forest is on the border with Europe's last dictatorial regime, where a new border crossing opened between the two countries in 2005. This paper explores how the imaginative geographies of the forest and its minority inhabitants overdetermines the meaning of the forest at the border. I look at how this happens in the act of crossing the border in the middle of the forest when most tourist traffic flows towards Belarus and the Belarusian traffic consists of musicians entering Poland to perform for tourists. Constituting and crossing the borders are part of the same processes, processes that have the effect of linking marginal rural residents to the consumption habits of central Poland so that the most salient images for determining the border are those circulated by conservationists and tourists.
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