TY - BOOK ID - 2986894 TI - Notes from the Balkans : Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border PY - 2016 VL - *3 SN - 0691121990 0691121982 9780691121987 9780691121994 1400884357 9781400884353 PB - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Marginality, Social KW - Cultural fusion KW - Greeks KW - #SBIB:39A72 KW - Ethnology KW - Mediterranean race KW - Culture fusion KW - Fusion, Cultural KW - Hybridism (Social sciences) KW - Hybridity (Social sciences) KW - Cultural relations KW - Acculturation KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Ethnicity KW - Multiculturalism KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Exclusion, Social KW - Marginal peoples KW - Social exclusion KW - Social marginality KW - Culture conflict KW - Social isolation KW - Sociology KW - People with social disabilities KW - History KW - Etnografie: Europa KW - Pōgōni (Greece : Region) KW - Epirus (Greece and Albania) KW - Greece KW - Albania KW - Epir (Greece and Albania) KW - Ípiros (Greece and Albania) KW - Pōgōnion (Greece : Region) KW - Social conditions. KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Boundaries. KW - Pōgōni (Greece : Region) KW - Albanie KW - People's Socialist Republic of Albania KW - People's Republic of Albania KW - Shqipëria KW - Republika Popullore Socialiste e Shqipërisë KW - Republika Popullore e Shqipërisë KW - Albanien KW - Albanija KW - Albaniya KW - Alvania KW - Arnautluk KW - Sheypeni KW - Shkipeni KW - Shqipenia KW - Shqipëri KW - Shqipni KW - Shqipnia KW - Shqipnië KW - Shqipnija KW - Shqipri KW - Shqipria KW - Shqiprija KW - Shqypëni KW - Shqypni KW - PSR of Albania KW - Republika e Shqipërisë KW - Republic of Albania KW - RPS të Shqipërisë KW - RSH KW - Arnavutluk KW - Albaani KW - Albaania KW - Albaanje KW - Albàinia KW - Albani KW - Albanio KW - Albanska KW - Albánsko KW - Albanujo KW - Albanya KW - An Albáin KW - An-ba-ni KW - Arnavutluk Cumhuriyeti KW - Elbanya KW - Lalbanän KW - República d'Albània KW - Shkiperiya KW - République populaire socialiste d'Albanie KW - ألبانيا KW - Arbinishia KW - Republica Arbinishia KW - Avaña KW - Albaniya Respublikası KW - Албанія KW - Albanii︠a︡ KW - Республіка Албанія KW - Respublika Albanii︠a︡ KW - Republikan kan Albanya KW - Албания KW - Република Албания KW - Republika Albanii︠a︡ KW - Албани KW - Republika sa Albanya KW - Albánská republika KW - Gweriniaeth Albania KW - Republikken Albanien KW - Republik Albanien KW - Dziłigaii Bikéyah KW - Republika Albańska KW - Albaania Vabariik KW - Αλβανία KW - Δημοκρατία της Αλβανίας KW - Dēmokratia tēs Alvanias KW - Repóbblica d'l Albanî KW - República de Albania KW - Respubliko Albanio KW - Repúbrica d'Albánia KW - Albaniako Errepublika KW - République d'Albanie KW - Lýðveldið Albania KW - Lýðveldið Albaniu KW - Poblacht na hAlbáine KW - Yn Albaan KW - Pobblaght ny h-Albaan KW - Â-ngì-pâ-nì-â KW - Арнгудин Орн KW - Arngudin Orn KW - 알바니아 KW - ʻAlepania KW - Republika Albanija KW - Repubblica di Albania KW - אלבניה KW - Albanyah KW - רפובליקת אלבניה KW - Republiḳat Albanyah KW - Griechenland KW - Grèce KW - Hellas KW - Yaṿan KW - Vasileion tēs Hellados KW - Hellēnikē Dēmokratia KW - République hellénique KW - Royaume de Grèce KW - Kingdom of Greece KW - Hellenic Republic KW - Ancient Greece KW - Ελλάδα KW - Ellada KW - Ελλάς KW - Ellas KW - Ελληνική Δημοκρατία KW - Ellēnikē Dēmokratia KW - Elliniki Dimokratia KW - Grecia KW - Grčija KW - Hellada KW - アルバニア KW - Arubania KW - Qeverija Demokratike e Shqipërisë KW - اليونان KW - يونان KW - al-Yūnān KW - Yūnān KW - 希腊 KW - Xila KW - Греция KW - Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ KW - Marginality [Social ] KW - Pogoni Region (Greece) KW - 20th century KW - Social conditions KW - Ethnic relations KW - Boundaries KW - Cultural hybridity KW - Transculturalism KW - Transculturation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2986894 AB - Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps"--places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an iconic example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans. Drawing on richly detailed ethnographic research around the Greek-Albanian border, Sarah Green focuses her groundbreaking analysis on the ambiguities of never quite resolving where or what places are. One consequence for some Greek peoples in this border area is a seeming lack of distinction--but in a distinctly "Balkan" way. In gaps (which are never empty), marginality is, in contrast with conventional understandings, not a matter of difference and separation--it is a lack thereof. Notes from the Balkans represents the first ethnographic approach to exploring "the Balkans" as an ideological concept. Green argues that, rather than representing a tension between "West" and "East," the Balkans makes such oppositions ambiguous. This kind of marginality means that such places and peoples can hardly engage with "multiculturalism." Moreover, the region's ambiguity threatens clear, modernist distinctions. The violence so closely associated with the region can therefore be seen as part of continual attempts to resolve the ambiguities by imposing fixed separations. And every time this fails, the region is once again defined as a place that will continually proliferate such dangerous ambiguity, and could spread it somewhere else. ER -