The article examines the involvement of Yugoslav geographers in the multifaceted process of constructing the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes between the final stage of the First World War and the mid-1920s, when Yugoslavia’s external boundaries and internal arrangement were temporarily settled. Researchers have recognized Jovan Cvijic as the leading scientist behind the political-geographical legitimation of the newly created Yugoslav state. This article, however, examines the role of two hitherto neglected Yugoslav geographers—the Slovene Anton Melik and the Croat Filip Lukas—in the process of constructing the Yugoslav national space. This process, in fact, only intensified after the 1918 publication of Cvijic’s seminal work La Peninsule balkanique . Whereas Cvijic aimed at an international readership, the construction of Yugoslav national space by Croat and Slovene geographers was primarily a domestic enterprise; these were geographies of Yugoslavia by Yugoslav geographers, narrating Yugoslavia to Yugoslav readership. For a period, scholars from Ljubljana and Zagreb rather than Belgrade influenced the project of the geographical narration of Yugoslavia, and approached the pressing contemporary political issues in geographical works in a manner that revealed both connections and tensions between discourses of “center” and “periphery.”

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两次世界大战期间南斯拉夫的地理叙述

本文考察了南斯拉夫地理学家在第一次世界大战的最后阶段和 1920 年代中期之间，即南斯拉夫的外部边界和内部安排暂时确定时，参与了构建塞尔维亚人、克罗地亚人和斯洛文尼亚人王国的多方面过程。研究人员已经认识到 Jovan Cvijic 是新成立的南斯拉夫国家政治地理合法化背后的主要科学家。然而，本文考察了两位迄今为止被忽视的南斯拉夫地理学家——斯洛文尼亚人 Anton Melik 和克罗地亚人 Filip Lukas——在构建南斯拉夫国家空间的过程中的作用。事实上，这个过程在 1918 年 Cvijic 的开创性著作 La Peninsule balkanique 出版后才得到加强。Cvijic 针对的是国际读者群，克罗地亚和斯洛文尼亚地理学家对南斯拉夫国家空间的建设主要是国内企业；这些是南斯拉夫地理学家的南斯拉夫地理，向南斯拉夫读者讲述南斯拉夫。一段时间以来，来自卢布尔雅那和萨格勒布而非贝尔格莱德的学者影响了南斯拉夫地理叙事的计划，并以一种揭示“中心”和“边缘”话语之间的联系和张力的方式在地理作品中处理当代紧迫的政治问题。 。”