Title Beyond Balkanism : the Scholarly Politics of Region Making

Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages) Series Routledge Borderlands Studies Routledge borderlands studies. Contents Beyond Balkanism- Front Cover; Beyond Balkanism; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Transliteration; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 1: A concept with many names; Central European antecedents to academic balkanism; The "Balkan question" and the British experts; The realm of the South Slavs; Notes; Chapter 2: The emergence of the Balkans as a cultural-historical space; The Balkan linguistic union; Cultural transfers as region makers; Human geography, ethnopsychology, and "Balkan mentality"; "Everything connects us without our will:" the Balkans as a history-made region; Notes Chapter 3: The Balkans as autospaceThe Balkan projects of the Left and the Liberals; The new science of balkanology; In search of homo balkanucus; Notes; Chapter 4: The Balkans on the European map; Between the Near East and "New Europe"; Facets of Balkan culture; Südosteuropa vs. Balkan; On the historiographical map of Eastern Europe; Notes; Chapter 5: Nationalism in transnational guise; Postwar political and institutional framework; Old wine in new bottles; Notes; Chapter 6: In the orbit of Eastern Europe; Marxist maps of East Central and Southeastern Europe; The "area studies" framework L'Europe centrale or les Balkans?Notes; Chapter 7: A Sonderweg or a metaphor?; Deconstructing space and regions; Is there any there there?; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; References; Archival sources; Bibliography; Index Summary In recent years, western discourseabout the Balkans, or "balkanism," has risen in prominence. Characteristically, this strand of research sidelines the academic input in the production of western representations and Balkan self-understanding. Looking at the Balkans from the vantage point of "balkanism" has therefore contributed to its further marginalization as an object of research and the evisceration of its agency. This book reverses the perspective and looks at the Balkans primarily inside-out, from within the Balkans towards its "self" and the outside world, where the west is important but not the sole referent. The book unravels attempts at regional identity-building and construction of regional discourses across various generations and academic subcultures, with the aim of reconstructing the conceptualizations of the Balkans that have emerged from academically embedded discursive practices and political usages. It thus seeks to reinstate the subjectivity of "the Balkans" and the responsibility of the Balkan intellectual elites for the concept and the images it conveys. The book then looks beyond the Balkans, inviting us to rethink the relationship between national and transnational (self- )representation and the communication between local and exogenous - Western, Central and Eastern European - concepts and definitions more generally. It thus contributes to the ongoing debates related to the creation of space and historical regions, which feed into rethinking the premises of the "new area studies."Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making will interest researchers and students of transnationalism, politics, historical geography, border and area studies Notes Print version record Subject Balkan Peninsula-Historical geography Balkan Peninsula-Relations-Europe Balkan Peninsula-Research Balkan Peninsula-Study and teaching Europe-Relations-Balkan Peninsula Regionalism-Balkan Peninsula Transnationalism-Balkan Peninsula Regionalism -- Balkan Peninsula Transnationalism. HISTORY -- Historical Geography. Historical geography International relations Regionalism Research Education Transnationalism SUBJECT Balkan Peninsula -- Study and teaching Balkan Peninsula -- Research Balkan Peninsula -- Historical geography Balkan Peninsula -- Relations -- Europe Europe -- Relations -- Balkan Peninsula Subject Balkan Peninsula Europe Form Electronic book ISBN 9781351236379 1351236377 9781351236362 1351236369 9781351236355 1351236350 9781351236386 1351236385

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