Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border
()
About this ebook
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.
Read more from Sarah F. Green
Princeton Modern Greek Studies
Related to Notes from the Balkans
Titles in the series (15)
Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCatholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Kazantzakis, Volume 1: Politics of the Spirit Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKazantzakis, Volume 2: Politics of the Spirit Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGeorge Seferis: Collected Poems - Revised Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFirewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDemons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfter the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Fourth Dimension Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In a Different Place: Pilgrimage, Gender, and Politics at a Greek Island Shrine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related ebooks
Egypt in Late Antiquity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis, An Abridgment Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mapping And Imagination In The Great Basin: A Cartographic History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Current Perspectives in the Archaeology of Ghana Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Walking on the Greek Islands - the Cyclades: Naxos and the 50km Naxos Strada, Paros, Amorgos, Santorini Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEtna: A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Byzantines Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past: Invasion, Violence, and Imagination in Indigenous Central Australia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare, and Exchange across the American Southwest and Beyond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPeople in a Sea of Grass: Archaeology's Changing Perspective on Indigenous Plains Communities Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Nile in 1904 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Nuer:: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Geography of Tropical African Development: A Study of Spatial Patterns of Economic Change Since Independence Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Archaeology and Geoinformatics: Case Studies from the Caribbean Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistory of Phoenicia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDe Africa Romaque: Merging cultures across North Africa Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking a New Land: Enviromental Histories of New Zealand Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrail of Story, Traveller’s Path: Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Politics of a South African Frontier: The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries, 1780�1840 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fayum Landscape: Ten Thousand Years of Archaeology, Texts, and Traditions in Egypt Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Northern Horizons of Guy Blanchet: Intrepid Surveyor, 1884-1966 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRelocating Eden: The Image and Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDams, People and Development: The Aswan High Dam Case Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Anthropology For You
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Collected Essays: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, and After Henry Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The White Album: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bullshit Jobs: A Theory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dark Matter of the Mind: The Culturally Articulated Unconscious Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Psychology of Totalitarianism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Regarding the Pain of Others Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future---Updated With a New Epilogue Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Body Language Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5How to Survive in Ancient Egypt Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Serpent and the Rainbow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Trails: An Exploration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Notes from the Balkans
0 ratings0 reviews