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Analyzes the processes of nation-building in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century south-eastern Europe. A product of transnational comparative teamwork, this collection represents a coordinated interpretation based on ten varied academic cultures and traditions.

Nationalism --- Balkan Peninsula --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Politics and government --- Balkan, Identity, Modernization, Nation-building, Nationalism, Political studies, South-east Europe.

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In recent years, western discourse about the Balkans, or “balkanism,” has risen in prominence. Characteristically, this strand of research sidelines the academic input in the production of western representations and Balkan self-understanding. Looking at the Balkans from the vantage point of “balkanism” has therefore contributed to its further marginalization as an object of research and the evisceration of its agency. This book reverses the perspective and looks at the Balkans primarily inside-out, from within the Balkans towards its “self” and the outside world, where the west is important but not the sole referent.The book unravels attempts at regional identity-building and construction of regional discourses across various generations and academic subcultures, with the aim of reconstructing the conceptualizations of the Balkans that have emerged from academically embedded discursive practices and political usages. It thus seeks to reinstate the subjectivity of “the Balkans” and the responsibility of the Balkan intellectual elites for the concept and the images it conveys. The book then looks beyond the Balkans, inviting us to rethink the relationship between national and transnational (self-)representation and the communication between local and exogenous – Western, Central and Eastern European – concepts and definitions more generally. It thus contributes to the ongoing debates related to the creation of space and historical regions, which feed into rethinking the premises of the “new area studies.” Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making will interest researchers and students of transnationalism, politics, historical geography, border and area studies. (Provided by publisher)

Regionalism --- Transnationalism --- Balkan Peninsula --- Europe --- Study and teaching. --- Research. --- Historical geography. --- Relations

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It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions—supra-national geographical designations such as “Scandinavia,” “Eastern Europe,” and “the Balkans.” Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realities rather than a series of shifting, overlapping, and historically constructed concepts. This volume is the first to provide a synthetic account of these concepts and the historical and intellectual contexts in which they emerged. Bringing together prominent international scholars from across multiple disciplines, it systematically and comprehensively explores how such “meso-regions” have been conceptualized throughout modern European history.

Borderlands --- Regionalism --- Political geography --- Geography, Political --- Human geography --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Europe --- History. --- Historical geography. --- Europe, Historical Geography, Meso-Regions, Regional Frameworks, Conceptual History.

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The last volume of the Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945 series presents 46 texts under the heading of "antimodernism". In a dynamic relationship with modernism, from the 1880s to the 1940s, and especially during the interwar period, the antimodernist political discourse in the region offered complex ideological constructions of national identification. These texts rejected the linear vision of progress and instead offered alternative models of temporality, such as the cyclical one as well as various narratives of decline. This shift was closely connected to the rejection of liberal democratic institutionalism, and the preference for organicist models of social existence, emphasizing the role of the elites (and charismatic leaders) shaping the whole body politic. Along these lines, antimodernist authors also formulated alternative visions of symbolic geography: rejecting the symbolic hierarchies that focused on the normativity of Western European models, they stressed the cultural and political autarchy of their own national community, which in some cases was also coupled with the reevaluation of the Orient. At the same time, this antimodernist turn should not be confused with rightwing radicalism—in fact, the dialogue with the modernist tradition was often very subtle and the anthology also contains texts which offered a criticism of 'modern' totalitarianism in an antimodernist key.

Nationalism --- Ethnicity --- History --- Europe, Eastern --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- East Europe --- Eastern Europe --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- National characteristics, European --- European national characteristics --- Aesthetics --- Intellectual life. --- National characteristics, European. --- History. --- E-books --- National characteristics. --- Characteristics, National --- Images, National --- National images --- National psychology --- Psychology, National --- Anthropology --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Ethnopsychology --- Exceptionalism --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Balkan, Ethnicity, Habsburg Empire, Identity, Nation-building, Nationalism, Ottoman Empire, Sources. --- Fascism, Identity, Islam, Modernity, Myths, Nationalism, Nazism, Peasants, Ideologies, Sources. --- Group identity-Europe, Central. --- Group identity-Balkan Peninsula.

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