The Balkans, Europe's Distant Back Yard: Identity - Alterity, Necessity - Arbitrariness

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

In this paper we are trying to re-examine the importance of role of the Balkans in the imagery of (Western) Europe. We want to shed light on three points. Necessity of Europe’s through the Otherness, peculiarities of Europe’s perception of the Balkans and influence of this allegedly unitary outside identity construction of the Balkans on self-perception of peoples from the peninsula. In the paper an effort is made, to point out how internal complexity of the European identity directly and inevitably affected of other, not only Balkanic cultural Others, and how specificity of the Balkans is that they are not recognized as sufficiently different Otherness.

Object Details

• ISSN: 2285-4916
• Extent: Seite(n): 18-34
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities, 2(2)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Politikwissenschaft ; Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft ; Südosteuropa ; kulturelle Identität ; kulturelle Differenz ; Wahrnehmung ; Westeuropa ; europäische Identität

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Koprivitsa, Chaslav D.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (when): 2013

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-342048
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST