Cybergeo (Jun 2016)
Réseaux académiques et circulations savantes entre guerres et paix (1912-1919). Les expertises de Jovan Cvijić et de ses collègues géographes à travers les cas de Trieste et Fiume
Abstract
Between 1912 and 1919, Jovan Cvijić, a world-renowned professor of geography in the University of Belgrade and a prominent member of the nationalist movement for the creation of a Pan-slavic State in South Eastern Europe, had a very active role in building and defining the territory of the future Yugoslavia. Using published sources and unpublished archives, we shall consider here his many activities before, during and after the First World War in terms of dynamic circulations within international political and intellectual circles. They include personal circulations (as a refugee in Switzerland and in France), text and map circulations between 1917 and 1919, finally circulations of geographical and geopolitical arguments during the Paris Peace Conference as the leading territorial expert of the Serbian delegation, with or against other geographers, for example Emmanuel de Martonne. Studying the case of the debate on Fiume (Rijeka) and Trieste, we will therefore argue that, from Cvijić’s point of view and under his influence, Paris became the place of a long and large international Congress of applied geography, with political and spatial consequences of national, European and world interest.
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