Southeastern Europe is often portrayed as an area plagued by endemic nationalisms, a view that seems to be confirmed by the break-up of Yugoslavia. However, a closer look shows that the nation is not the only territorial unit of identification. Regions play an important role as well, especially those that look back on traditions that differ from those of the national state. Thus, the end of socialism also brought forward regional movements which articulated opposition to the dominance of the centralized state. These developments are furthered by the integration into the European Union, whose policy of a „Europe of the Regions“ demands strong regional centres for the administration of structural funds and for the empowerment of the regions.
The contributions to this volume address the dynamics of regions, regionalism and regional identities in present Southeast Europe, but also look into the history of individual regions. They provide ample material for understanding the complex nature of territorial identification in this rapidly changing part of Europe.
TABLE of CONTENTS
Editorial
Regions and Regionalism in Southeast Europe
Klaus Roth, MunichWhat’s in a Region? Southeast European Regions Between Globalization, EU-Integration and Marginalization
Christian Giordano, FribourgEthnic versus Cosmopolitan Regionalism? For a Political Anthropology of Local Identity Constructions in a Globalized World-System
Pamela Ballinger, Brunswick, MaineBeyond the “New” Regional Question? Regions, Territoriality, and the Space of Anthropology in Southeastern Europe
Borderlands and Identities
Claire Norton, LondonNationalism and the Re-Invention of Early-Modern Identities in the Ottoman-Habsburg Borderlands
Wolfgang Aschauer, ChemnitzEthnizität und grenzüberschreitende ökonomische Beziehungen in der ungarisch-slowakischen Grenzregion
Region, Ethnicity and Religion
Alexander Maxwell, WellingtonSlavic Macedonian Nationalism: From “Regional” to “Ethnic”
Bianca Botea, LyonPratiques de la coexistence en milieu multiethnique transylvain et nouvelles mobilisations régionales
Aleksandra Djurić, BelgradeThe Cross With Four Pillars as the Centre of Religious Gathering: Discussing Micro Regional Identity
Magdalena Lubańska, WarsawNarratives About Dissenter Neighbours and Their Place in the Cultural Strategy of Coexistence in the Western Rhodope Region of Bulgaria
Articulations of Belonging
Dimitrije Pešić, BelgradeMagazines as a Way of Maintaining Regional Intra-Ethnic Communication. The Case of Balkan Jewish Periodicals
Rozita Dimova, BerlinBalkanBeats Berlin: Producing Cosmopolitanism, Consuming Primitivism
Eli Milošeska, PrilepMask Customs and Identity in the Region of Southeast Europe. The Case of Macedonia
European Integration and Regions
Petruţa Teampău, Cluj Napoca, Kristof van Assche, MinnesotaSulina – The Dying City in a Vital Region. Social Memory and the Nostalgia for the European Future
Dragutin Tošić, Marija Maksin-Mičić, BelgradeThe Problems and Potentials for the Regionalisation of Serbia
Addresses of authors and editors
Instructions to Authors