‘Spatializing Europe’ – Ethno-Pluralist Approaches through Cultural Transfer in the Revista de Occidente (1923-1936)

This study focuses on the question how Europe was spatialized through cultural transfer in the Revista de Occidente between 1923 and 1936 in Spain. Two complementary discourses will be analysed: Firstly, contributions in cultural history that framed Europe as a world area amongst other, extra-European spaces; secondly, the main ideas and theories that determined a particular European spatial ingredient. While the first discourse focuses on non-European geographical areas as ‘monolithical cultures’, the second discourse stresses the notion of Europe as an ethnopluralist entity. Both complementary discourses will be examined separately by a two-step analysis. As a final conclusion, the present paper highlights the ethno-pluralist character in this process of a spatialization of Europe through cultural transfer.