Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe – serie
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New Ottoman Greece in History and Fiction
Häftad, 2019
832 kr
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This book explores the increasing interest in the Ottoman past in contemporary Greek society and its cultural sphere. It considers how the changing geo-political balances in South-East Europe since 1989 have offered Greek society an occasion to re-examine the transition from cultural diversity in …
Nostalgia, Loss and Creativity in South-East Europe
Political and Cultural Representations of the Past
Häftad, 2019
1225 kr
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Where nostalgia was once dismissed a wistful dream of a never-never land, the academic focus has shifted to how pieces of the past are assembled as the elements in alternative political thinking as well as in artistic expression. The creative use of the past points to the complexities of the …
Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania
The Criterion Association
Inbunden, 2019
1225 kr
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In 1930s Bucharest, some of the country’s most brilliant young intellectuals converged to form the Criterion Association. Bound by friendship and the dream of a new, modern Romania, their members included historian Mircea Eliade, critic Petru Comarnescu, Jewish playwright Mihail Sebastian and a …
Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania
The Criterion Association
Häftad, 2020
1225 kr
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In 1930s Bucharest, some of the country’s most brilliant young intellectuals converged to form the Criterion Association. Bound by friendship and the dream of a new, modern Romania, their members included historian Mircea Eliade, critic Petru Comarnescu, Jewish playwright Mihail Sebastian and a …
Orthodox Church and National Identity in Post-Communist Romania
Inbunden, 2020
545 kr
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This book explores the Romanian Orthodox Church’s arguments on national identity to legitimize its own place in a post-communist Romania. The work traces the clergy’s deployment of the concepts of Christian Orthodoxy and Latin legacy as part of an uncharted constellation of arguments in …
Orthodox Church and National Identity in Post-Communist Romania
Häftad, 2021
545 kr
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This book explores the Romanian Orthodox Church’s arguments on national identity to legitimize its own place in a post-communist Romania. The work traces the clergy’s deployment of the concepts of Christian Orthodoxy and Latin legacy as part of an uncharted constellation of arguments in …
Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia
Inbunden, 2020
1557 kr
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This book is the first historical work to examine the notion of national territories in Yugoslavia – a concept fundamental for the understanding of Yugoslav history. Exploring the intertwined histories of geography as an emerging discipline in the South Slavic lands and geographical works …
Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia
Häftad, 2021
1557 kr
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This book is the first historical work to examine the notion of national territories in Yugoslavia – a concept fundamental for the understanding of Yugoslav history. Exploring the intertwined histories of geography as an emerging discipline in the South Slavic lands and geographical works …
Narrated Empires
Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism
Av Johanna Chovanec, Olof Heilo
Inbunden, 2021
1446 kr
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This book examines the role of imperial narratives of multinationalism as alternative ideologies to nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East from the revolutions of 1848 up to the defeat and subsequent downfall of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires in 1918. During …
Narrated Empires
Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism
Av Johanna Chovanec, Olof Heilo
Häftad, 2022
1446 kr
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This book examines the role of imperial narratives of multinationalism as alternative ideologies to nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East from the revolutions of 1848 up to the defeat and subsequent downfall of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires in 1918. During …
Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania
Nostalgia for Paradise Lost
Inbunden, 2020
545 kr
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This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its …
Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania
Nostalgia for Paradise Lost
Häftad, 2021
545 kr
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This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its …
New Social Movements and the Armenian Question in Turkey
Civil Society vs. the State
Inbunden, 2020
838 kr
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This book explores and comparatively assesses how Armenians as minorities have been represented in modern Turkey from the twentieth century through to the present day, with a particular focus on the period since the first electoral victory of the AKP (Justice and Development Party) in 2002. It …
Nationalism and the Politicization of History in the Former Yugoslavia
Av Gorana Ognjenovic, Jasna Jozelic
Inbunden, 2021
1557 kr
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“This book is very timely: the instrumentalization of history for political goals has become a pressing issue and worrisome feature of many polities, to the point of challenging even the most consolidated democracies. Focusing on Yugoslavia’s fragile successor states, the authors explore plurifold …
Nationalism and the Politicization of History in the Former Yugoslavia
Av Gorana Ognjenovic, Jasna Jozelic
Häftad, 2022
1557 kr
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“This book is very timely: the instrumentalization of history for political goals has become a pressing issue and worrisome feature of many polities, to the point of challenging even the most consolidated democracies. Focusing on Yugoslavia’s fragile successor states, the authors explore plurifold …
Cultural History of the 1984 Winter Olympics
The Making of Olympic Sarajevo
Inbunden, 2021
1225 kr
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This book examines the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games. It tells the story of the extensive infrastructural transformation of the city and its changing global image in relation to hosting of the Games. Reviewing different cultural representations of Sarajevo in the period from the 1960s to the …
Cultural History of the 1984 Winter Olympics
The Making of Olympic Sarajevo
Häftad, 2022
1004 kr
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This book examines the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games. It tells the story of the extensive infrastructural transformation of the city and its changing global image in relation to hosting of the Games. Reviewing different cultural representations of Sarajevo in the period from the 1960s to the …
Turkish Jews and their Diasporas
Entanglements and Separations
Av Kerem Öktem, Ipek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu
Inbunden, 2022
1668 kr
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This book introduces the reader to the past and present of Jewish life in Turkey and to Turkish Jewish diaspora communities in Israel, Europe, Latin America and the United States. It surveys the history of Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, examining the survival of Jewish …
Turkish Jews and their Diasporas
Entanglements and Separations
Av Kerem Öktem, Ipek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu
Häftad, 2023
1668 kr
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This book introduces the reader to the past and present of Jewish life in Turkey and to Turkish Jewish diaspora communities in Israel, Europe, Latin America and the United States. It surveys the history of Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, examining the survival of Jewish …
Internationalism and the New Turkey
American Peace Education in the Kemalist Republic, 1923-1933
Av Erik Sjöberg
Inbunden, 2022
1114 kr
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This book examines international education in Turkey after World War I. In this period, a movement for peace and international education among American educators emerged. This effort, however, had to be reconciled with the nationalist projects of new nation-states emerging from the war. In the case …
Internationalism and the New Turkey
American Peace Education in the Kemalist Republic, 1923-1933
Av Erik Sjöberg
Häftad, 2023
1114 kr
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This book examines international education in Turkey after World War I. In this period, a movement for peace and international education among American educators emerged. This effort, however, had to be reconciled with the nationalist projects of new nation-states emerging from the war. In the case …
Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey
Av Catharina Raudvere, Petek Onur
Inbunden, 2022
1560 kr
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This book presents gendered readings of cultural manifestations that relate to the Ottoman era as a preferred past and a model for the future. By means of claims of authenticity and the distribution of imaginaries of a homogenous desirable alternative to everyday concerns, as well as invoking an …
Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey
Av Catharina Raudvere, Petek Onur
Häftad, 2023
1560 kr
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This book presents gendered readings of cultural manifestations that relate to the Ottoman era as a preferred past and a model for the future. By means of claims of authenticity and the distribution of imaginaries of a homogenous desirable alternative to everyday concerns, as well as invoking an …
Marginal Spaces and Cultures of Dissent in Socialist Romania's Black Sea
Inbunden, 2023
1227 kr
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This book analyzes two Romanian villages – 2 Mai and Vama Veche – as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule. This microhistorical study refutes simplistic views of the communist past which focus on political figures and events, and instead explores ordinary people and …
Marginal Spaces and Cultures of Dissent in Socialist Romania's Black Sea
Häftad, 2024
1227 kr
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This book analyzes two Romanian villages – 2 Mai and Vama Veche – as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule. This microhistorical study refutes simplistic views of the communist past which focus on political figures and events, and instead explores ordinary people and …
Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey
A Critical Reading
Av Petek Onur
Inbunden, 2024
1405 kr
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This book provides a meta-reading of how ethnographic discourses on women and Islam in Turkey have changed since their emergence in 1983. It analyses the published ethnographic works in three discursive periods and shows that paradigm shifts in social sciences, processes of neo-liberal …
Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey
A Critical Reading
Av Petek Onur
Häftad, 2025
1446 kr
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This book provides a meta-reading of how ethnographic discourses on women and Islam in Turkey have changed since their emergence in 1983. It analyses the published ethnographic works in three discursive periods and shows that paradigm shifts in social sciences, processes of neo-liberal …
Ottoman Nationalism in Transition from Empire to Republic, 1908–1931
Inbunden, 2024
1446 kr
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This book deals with the complex process of national identity formation in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, during a crucial period characterized by transformative events that reshaped both the state and society. These events included revolutions, wars, mass migrations, ethnic …
Ottoman Nationalism in Transition from Empire to Republic, 1908–1931
Häftad, 2025
1446 kr
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This book deals with the complex process of national identity formation in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, during a crucial period characterized by transformative events that reshaped both the state and society. These events included revolutions, wars, mass migrations, ethnic …
Nostalgia, Loss and Creativity in South-East Europe
Political and Cultural Representations of the Past
Inbunden, 2018
1225 kr
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Where nostalgia was once dismissed a wistful dream of a never-never land, the academic focus has shifted to how pieces of the past are assembled as the elements in alternative political thinking as well as in artistic expression. The creative use of the past points to the complexities of the …
