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Symbolic Geographies and Visions of Identity A Balkan Perspective
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In this paper, the authors explore the agencies of the transmission of knowledge through which the Balkans became familiar with the West, focusing on how concepts about 'us' and the 'other', cultural and social self-definitions were historically mediated by concepts of Europe.Abstract:
The aim of this article is to interrogate the current mainstream interpretation of the relations between the Balkans and the West by exploring the agencies of the transmission of knowledge through which the Balkans became familiar with the West. Interest is focused on how concepts about 'us' and the 'other', cultural and social self-definitions were historically mediated by concepts of Europe. Issues of cultural transfer form a point of departure, in this sense suggesting that Balkan visions of Europe cannot be understood as simply mirroring the representations of the Western hegemonic discourse about the Balkans. In order to understand these visions, more attention needs to be paid to local and regional dynamics in the production of ideologies and self-narrations.read more
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Can economic crises constitute collective identity crises? : the case of Greek European identity during the Greek debt/Eurozone crisis
TL;DR: In this paper, a socio-psychological study of Greek European identity within the context of the Greek debt/Eurozone crisis is presented, which is based on Social Representations Theory and Social Identity Theory (SIT).
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The Meaning of Europe: Variety and Contention within and among Nations
Máiréad Nic Craith,Thomas Taaffe +1 more
TL;DR: The Meaning of Europe: Variety and Contention within and among Nations as discussed by the authors, edited by Mikael af Malmborg and Bo Strath, is a book about the meaning of Europe.
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Greece and the Balkans : Identities, Perceptions and Cultural Encounters since the Enlightenment
TL;DR: Tziovas as discussed by the authors discusses the role of Greek and Greece linguistically in the Balkans between the world wars: self-identity, the other, and national development, Gerasimos Augustinos religious and ethnic otherness: South Balkan Rabbinic readings of Ottoman rise and decline.
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‘Western Balkans’ as the New Balkans: Regional Names as Tools for Stigmatisation and Exclusion
TL;DR: A survey in 2011 in the Western Balkans showed that those who live there to a large extent share this view: membership in Western organisations like the EU determines whether a country is "European" or "Balkan" as mentioned in this paper.
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Cultural policy frameworks (Re) constructing national and supranational identities: The Balkans and the European Union
TL;DR: In this paper, Brkic's analysis of the role of cultural networks in helping Europe serve people is both a wake-up call for European authorities which support cultural networks and a tool for cultural networks themselves to check that they are fulfilling their European and intercultural remit as well as they should.
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Imagining the Balkans
TL;DR: In this paper, Imagining the Balkans covers the Balkan's most formative years, from the down fall of the Ottoman Empire through the turbulent nationalist years of the nineteenth century, up to World War I, the idea of the Balkans was fiercely, often violently, contested.
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Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
TL;DR: The authors argues that this conceptual reorientation from the previously accepted "Northern" and "Southern" was a work of cultural construction and intellectual artifice created by the philosophes of the Enlightenment, who viewed the continent from the perspective of Paris and deliberately cultivated an idea of the backwardness of "Eastern Europe" the more readily to affirm the importance of "Western Europe".
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Imagining the Balkans
TL;DR: Todorova as discussed by the authors, Imagining the Balkans: A History of the Balkans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xi +257 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
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Occidentalism, The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies:
TL;DR: Buruma and Margalit as mentioned in this paper argue that the most recent manifestation of hostility toward the west is part of a much broader phenomenon, one that has a history stretching far beyond the confines of the Middle East, of Islam, or of specific political circumstances or policy choices.