Mirroring Europe

Ideas of Europe and Europeanization in Balkan Societies
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27507-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Balkan Studies Library

Mirroring Europe offers refreshing insight into the ways Europe is imagined, negotiated and evoked in Balkan societies in the time of their accession to the European Union. Until now, visions of Europe from the southeast of the continent have been largely overlooked. By examining political and academic discourses, cultural performances, and memory practices, this collection destabilizes supposedly clear and firm division of the continent into East and West, ‘old’ and ‘new’ Europe, ‘Europe’ and ‘still-not-Europe’. The essays collected here show Europe to be a dynamic, multifaceted, contested idea built on values, images and metaphors that are widely shared across such geographic and ideological frontiers.

Zielgruppe

All interested in anthropology of Europe, European politics, history, cultural studies, and everyone concerned with study of contemporary Balkans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petrovic, Tanja

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

Part I: De-Provincializing Western Europe

1 Tanja Petrovic: Europeanization and the Balkans: An Introduction to the Volume
2 Orlanda Obad: On the Privilege of the Peripheral Point of View: A Beginner’s Guide to Balkanism Studies and Practices

Part II: Performing Europe

3 Ana Hofman: Balkan Music Awards: Popular Music Industries in the Balkans between Already-Europe and Europe-To-Be
4 Fabio Mattioli: Regimes of Aesthetics: Competing Performances Surrounding the Skopje 2014 Plan

Part III: Europe as Nostalgia / Utopia

5 Tanja Petrovic: Mourning the Lost Modernity: Industrial Labor, Europe, and (post)Yugoslav Postsocialism
6 Ildiko Erdei: IKEA in Serbia: Debates on Modernity, Culture and Democracy in the Pre-Accession Period
7 Marijana Mitrovic: Nostalgia and Utopia in Post-Yugoslav Feminist Genealogies in the Light of Europeanization

Part IV: Europe in Political Imagination

8 Carna Brkovic: The Quest for Legitimacy: Discussing the Language and Sexuality in Montenegro
9 Nermina Mujagic: The European Union as a Spectacle: The Case of the Slovenian-Croatian Dispute over the Sea Border

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tanja Petrovic, Ph.D. (1974), is a Senior Research Associate at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She has published monographs, chapters and articles on cultural and linguistic identities and processes in the societies of the former Yugoslavia.