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Title Balkan heritages : negotiating history and culture / edited by Maria Couroucli and Tchavdar Marinov, French School at Athens, Greece
Published Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages)
Series British School at Athens -- Modern Greek and Byzantine studies ; volume 1
British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine studies ; v. 1.
Contents Ethnonyms in the pre-national era : what's in a name? / Raymond Detrez -- Urban space and Bulgarian-Greek antagonism in Thrace, 1870-1912 / Vemund Aarbakke -- The pavilions of Greece, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris / Ada Hajdu -- Constructing the Bulgarian heritage : the nationalisation of the Byzantine and Ottoman architectures of Melnik / Tchavdar Marinov -- "Skopje 2014" : erasing memories, building history / Goran Janev -- Of bridges and borders : post-war urban geographies in Mostar / Francesco Mazzucchelli -- Memory of war in Croatia : between tourism and nationalism / Fanny Arnaud -- Balkan discourses of the European "other" : Turkey's foreign policy discourse in South-Eastern Europe under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) / Marc Herzog -- Beyond the politics of religion : rationalising popular Islam among the Slav-speaking Muslims in Greece / Fotini Tsibiridou -- In guise of conclusion: Escape from the future : anthropological practice and everyday life / Aleksandar Boskovic
Summary "This volume deals with the relation between heritage, history and politics in the Balkans. Contributions examine diverse ways in which material and immaterial heritage has been articulated, negotiated and manipulated since the nineteenth century. The major question addressed here is how modern Balkan nations have voiced claims about their past by establishing 'proof' of a long historical presence on their territories in order to legitimise national political narratives. Focusing on claims constructed in relation to tangible evidence of past presence, especially architecture and townscape, the contributors reveal the rich relations between material and immaterial conceptions of heritage. This comparative take on Balkan public uses of the past also reveals many common trends in social and political practices, ideas and fixations embedded in public and collective memories. Balkan Heritages revisits some general truths about the Balkans as a region and a category, in scholarship and in politics. Contributions to the volume adopt a transnational and trans-disciplinary perspective of Balkan identities and heritage(s), viewed here as symbolic resources deployed by diverse local actors with special emphasis on scholars and political leaders"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Historic preservation -- Balkan Peninsula
Historic preservation -- Political aspects -- Balkan Peninsula
Cultural property -- Protection -- Balkan Peninsula
Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- Balkan Peninsula
Cultural landscapes -- Conservation and restoration -- Balkan Peninsula
Nationalism -- Balkan Peninsula
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Antiquities
Architecture -- Conservation and restoration
Cultural property -- Protection
Historic preservation
Historiography
Nationalism
Politics and government
SUBJECT Balkan Peninsula -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94000656
Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011206
Balkan Peninsula -- Historiography
Balkan Peninsula -- History, Local
Subject Balkan Peninsula
Genre/Form Electronic books
Local history
Form Electronic book
Author Marinov, Tchavdar, editor.
Couroucli, Maria, editor.
ISBN 9781472473769
1472473760