Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.63.3.1
The “Sensory Beyond” and the local Zwischenraum on the Yugoslav-Hungarian Border
Miha Kozorog
; ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
This article deals with the phenomenon of physical isolation of space, whereby
the isolated space is nevertheless accessible to the human senses. Using the example of a Cold
War border section between Yugoslavia and Hungary, which was materially equipped to isolate
the national territories from each other, it is shown how the senses in the local environment
along the border played an important role in the perception and formation of ideas about the
space behind the border. For this use of the senses to reach the phenomena beyond the isolating
border, the concept of the sensory beyond is introduced. The sensory beyond helped the
locals in the studied borderland to negotiate the limits of the possible in the presence of the
border, i.e. to negotiate what anthropologist Daphne Berdahl called Zwischenraum.
Keywords
anthropology of borders; Iron Curtain (Cold War borders); spatial isolation; senses; Zwischenraum; Slovenia
Hrčak ID:
343848
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Publication date:
27.1.2026.
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