ABSTRACT
Contests over mapping space and, more specifically, the intellectual history of various regional concepts, have attracted much scholarly attention in recent decades. Since the project as a whole engages with regional studies of Central and Eastern Europe in a reflexive manner, the chapter on spatial configurations can be considered a key contribution to the endeavour. Diana Mishkova draws primarily on methods in conceptual history to track the history of the following spatial categories in the twentieth century in particular: Slavdom/Slavonic Europe, the Balkans/Southeastern Europe, Central/East Central Europe, Europe/Western Europe, and Eastern Europe. The chapter demonstrates how the meanings and uses of these key concepts have evolved over time and argues that regional concepts have tended to be strongly interlinked with dominant national conceptualizations of space in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe.
