Idei în Agora
XXXII
Beyond Balkanism? From Symbolic Geographies to Politics
Diana Mishkova talks to Sorin Antohi.
12 octombrie 2018, 18:00, Casa Filipescu-Cesianu, Calea Victoriei 151
Over the las decades, a transnational debate on the Balkans and on Balkanism (as a concept/trope that is simultaneously defined, promoted, embraced, dreaded,
Orientalized, and deconstructed) has yielded an impressive and sophisticated series of ideas, conferences, and publications. The books of Maria Todorova and Larry Wolff
have shown how ‘Balkans’ and ‘Eastern Europe’ have gradually crystallized during the Enlightenment, and how they have evolved over time, both in the West (their
site of emergence) and in the relevant geocultural areas. A more thorough and complex debate on historical regions that has taken place more recently has largely
de-dramatized and de-stigmatized the various peripheries of our continent, making transregional comparative research possible, and overarching interpretations
plausible. All the more, time has come to take stock of this debate and to revisit it critically.
Starting from her brilliant recent book, Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making (New York: Routledge, 2018), Diana Mishkova talks to Sorin Antohi
about the sources, concepts, discourses, and contexts of Balkanism, and about the chances of moving beyond.
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