Dangers on the Edge of the Map: Geographic Mental Maps and the Emergence of the Carter Doctrine

Abstract After the collapse of the Habsburg Empire and the sanctioning of new national borders in 1920, the successor states faced the controversial task of reconceptualizing the idea of national territory. Images of historically significant landscapes played a crucial role in this process. Employing the concept of mental maps, this article explores how such images shaped the connections between place, memory, and landscape in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Hungarian revisionist publications demonstrate how Hungarian nationalists visualized the organic integrity of “Greater Hungary,” while also implicitly adapting historical memory to the new geopolitical situation. As a counterpoint, images of the Váh region produced in interwar Czechoslovakia reveal how an opposing political agenda gave rise to a different imagery, while drawing on shared cultural traditions from the imperial past. Finally, the case study of Dévény/Devín/Theben shows how the idea of being positioned “between East and West” lived on in overlapping but politically opposed mental maps in the interwar period. By examining the cracks and continuities in the picturesque landscape tradition after 1918, the article offers new insight into the similarities and differences of nation-building processes from the perspective of visual culture.

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Mental maps and perceptual dialectology

Language and Linguistics Compass ◽

10.1111/lnc3.12405 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Cramer

Keyword(s):

Mental Maps ◽

Perceptual Dialectology

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What Are Friends for in Russia Versus Canada?: An Approach for Documenting Cross-Cultural Differences

Cross-Cultural Research ◽

10.1177/10693971211024599 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 106939712110245

Author(s):

Marina M. Doucerain ◽

Andrew G. Ryder ◽

Catherine E. Amiot

Keyword(s):

Cultural Differences ◽

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

Factor Structure ◽

Group Membership ◽

Cultural Models ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cultural Group ◽

Mental Maps ◽

Cross Cultural Differences

Most research on friendship has been grounded in Western cultural worlds, a bias that needs to be addressed. To that end, we propose a methodological roadmap to translate linguistic/anthropological work into quantitative psychological cross-cultural investigations of friendship, and showcase its implementation in Russia and Canada. Adopting an intersubjective perspective on culture, we assessed cultural models of friendship in three inter-related ways: by (1) deriving people’s mental maps of close interpersonal relationships; (2) examining the factor structure of friendship; and (3) predicting cultural group membership from a given person’s friendship model. Two studies of Russians (Study 1, n = 89; Study 2a, n = 195; Study 2b, n = 232) and Canadians (Study 1, n = 89; Study 2a, n = 164; Study 2b, n = 199) implemented this approach. The notions of trust and help in adversity emerged as defining features of friendship in Russia but were less clearly present in Canada. Different friendship models seem to be prevalent in these two cultural worlds. The roadmap described in the current research documents these varying intersubjective representations, showcasing an approach that is portable across contexts (rather than limited to a specific cross-cultural contrast) and relies on well-established methods (i.e., easily accessible in many research contexts).

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Real and Mental Maps at the Paris Peace Conference

Diplomatic History ◽

10.1093/dh/dhaa074 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Daniela Rossini

Keyword(s):

Mental Maps ◽

Paris Peace Conference

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Cognitive-Humanistic Psychodynamics: Sidney Blatt’s Theoretical-Philosophical Legacy

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association ◽

10.1177/0003065117709013 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 65 (3) ◽

pp. 457-472 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Golan Shahar ◽

Linda C. Mayes

Keyword(s):

Scholarly Work ◽

Mental Maps

A number of broad-based, theoretical-philosophical tenets are to be gleaned from Sidney Blatt’s voluminous, extensive, and unique scholarly work. Dominant themes in Blatt’s life and work include (1) his fascination with cognition, particularly mental maps, or representations, of reality; (2) the influence of humanistic values (e.g., agency, need for growth, gestalts, need for balance, and an optimistic focus on resilience); and (3) a steadfast adherence to Freud’s revolutionary discovery of the dynamic unconscious. Philosophically speaking, Blatt has left a unique, integrative, and vibrant legacy for the field, one that might be called cognitive-humanistic psychodynamics.

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