Balkan as metaphor : between globalization and fragmentation /

Pioneering essays on the idea of the Balkan as a body of knowledge and a cultural metaphor. Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political views. M...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bjelić, Dušan I., Savić, Obrad
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Since 1989
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations.
Politics and government
Nationale identiteit.
Culturele identiteit.
Etnische identiteit.
Balkan Peninsula > Politics and government > 1989-
Balkan Peninsula > Ethnic relations.
Balkans > Politique et gouvernement > 1989-
Balkans > Relations interethniques.
Balkan Peninsula.
Balkan.
HUMANITIES/History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Invention and in(ter)vention: the rhetoric of Balkanization / Vesna Goldsworthy
  • Vampires like us: gothic imaginary and "the serbs" [sic] / Tomislav Z. Longinović
  • What's so Byzantine about the Balkans? / Milica Bakić-Hayden
  • The Balkans as an element in ideological mechanisms / Rastko Močnik
  • Carl Schmitt on Kosovo, or, taking war seriously / Grigoris Ananiadis
  • The dark intimacy: maps, identities, acts of identifications / Alexander Kiossev
  • South Slav identity and the ultimate war-reality / Ugo Vlaisavljević
  • The impossible escape: Romanians and the Balkans / Adrian Cioroianu
  • The eros of identity / Ivaylo Ditchev
  • Queer Serbs / Branka Arsić
  • Sexualizing the Serb / Dušan I. Bjelić and Lucinda Cole
  • Muslim women, Croatian women, Serbian women, Albanian women ... / Vesna Kesić
  • Hypnosis and critique (film music for the Balkans) / Stathis Gourgouris
  • Simonides on the Balkans / Petar Ramadanović.

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