The “Sensory Beyond” and the local Zwischenraum on the Yugoslav-Hungarian Border

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.