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This article extends work in human geography on thinking space relationally and topological space, arguing for a relational conceptualization of space that employs montage in small seemingly confined spaces to tell big relational stories. Empirically it explores a micronation projected onto watery western Balkan no-man's [sic] land and reveals an exploitation of Balkan history and geography that underpins perceptions of the southeast European peninsula. Liberland is a new right-libertarian unofficial country that claims a disputed tract of middle Danube riverbank in a contested riverine borderscape between Croatia and Serbia, where the fantasy geography of emptiness and terra nullius reappears in a new imperial present. The hackneyed performances that self-proclaimed micronations undertake to legitimize themselves are placed alongside a relational story of regional cultural landscape and more-than-human geographies in this fluvial political–ecological borderland in order to undermine alt-right libertarianism, Balkanism, and imperialism.
Author(s): Riding J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Dialogues in Human Geography
Year: 2022
Volume: 12
Issue: 2
Pages: 278-301
Print publication date: 01/07/2022
Online publication date: 23/05/2022
Acceptance date: 05/02/2021
Date deposited: 06/06/2022
ISSN (print): 2043-8206
ISSN (electronic): 2043-8214
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20438206221102597
DOI: 10.1177%2F20438206221102597
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