Normalizing The Balkans

Author : Dušan I. Bjelic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317086710

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Normalizing the Balkans argues that, following the historical patterns of colonial psychoanalysis and psychiatry in British India and French Africa as well as Nazi psychoanalysis and psychiatry, the psychoanalysis and psychiatry of the Balkans during the 1990s deployed the language of psychic normality to represent the space of the Other as insane geography and to justify its military, or its symbolic, takeover. Freud's self-analysis, influenced by his journeys through the Balkans, was a harbinger of orientalism as articulated by Said. However, whereas Said intended Orientalism to be a critique of the historical construction of the Orient by, and in relation to, the West, for Freud it constituted a medical and psychic truth. Freud’s self-orientalization became the structural foundation of psychoanalytic language, which had tragic consequences in the Balkans when a demonic conjunction developed between the ingrained self-orientalizing structure of psychoanalysis and the Balkans' own propensity for self-orientalization. In the 1990s, in the ex-Yugoslav cultural space, psychoanalytic language was used by the Serb psychiatrist-politicians Drs. Raškovic and Karadzic as conceptual justification for inter-ethnic violence. Kristeva's discourse on abject geography and Zizek's conceptualization of the Balkans as the Real have done violence to the region in an intellectual register on behalf of universal subjectivity. Following Gramsci’s and Said’s 'discourse-geography' Bjelic transmutes the psychoanalytic topos of the imaginary geography of the Balkans into the geopolitics inherent in psychoanalytic language itself, and takes to task the practices of normalization that underpin the Balkans’ politics of madness.

Author : Dušan I. Bjelić
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 131559854X

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Author : Professor Dušan I Bjelic
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409494720

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Normalizing the Balkans by Professor Dušan I Bjelic Pdf

Normalizing the Balkans argues that, following the historical patterns of colonial psychoanalysis and psychiatry in British India and French Africa as well as Nazi psychoanalysis and psychiatry, the psychoanalysis and psychiatry of the Balkans during the 1990s deployed the language of psychic normality to represent the space of the Other as insane geography and to justify its military, or its symbolic, takeover. Freud's self-analysis, influenced by his journeys through the Balkans, was a harbinger of orientalism as articulated by Said. However, whereas Said intended Orientalism to be a critique of the historical construction of the Orient by, and in relation to, the West, for Freud it constituted a medical and psychic truth. Freud’s self-orientalization became the structural foundation of psychoanalytic language, which had tragic consequences in the Balkans when a demonic conjunction developed between the ingrained self-orientalizing structure of psychoanalysis and the Balkans' own propensity for self-orientalization. In the 1990s, in the ex-Yugoslav cultural space, psychoanalytic language was used by the Serb psychiatrist-politicians Drs. Raškovic and Karadžic as conceptual justification for inter-ethnic violence. Kristeva's discourse on abject geography and Žižek's conceptualization of the Balkans as the Real have done violence to the region in an intellectual register on behalf of universal subjectivity. Following Gramsci’s and Said’s 'discourse-geography' Bjelic transmutes the psychoanalytic topos of the “imaginary geography” of the Balkans into the geopolitics inherent in psychoanalytic language itself, and takes to task the practices of normalization that underpin the Balkans’ politics of madness.

Author : Dušan I. Bjelić
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429594007

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Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe by Dušan I. Bjelić Pdf

Offering a fresh look at the ways in which neoliberalism has claimed to cure the Balkan region of its ethnic particularities under the pretext of Europeanization, this book shows how the reconfiguration of the economic, political, and cultural landscape of the region has resulted in its functioning as Europe’s neocolony. The contributors to this volume engage in postcolonial analysis of the Balkans’ past and present coloniality by way of interrogating race, racism, trauma, film, and global capitalism. They challenge the idea of a United Europe that rests on the assumption that the European Union’s ‘newness’ represents both a clean slate and the right to shift ownership of its colonial histories to former colonial subjects and their national histories. Taken as a whole, the volume seeks to transform Europe’s colonial amnesia into postcolonial awareness and to speak from within the Balkans as a site of Europe’s neocolony. As it critically interrogates a neocolonial reconfiguration of the Balkans as a massive social overhaul, which includes at once global integration and local social disintegration, this book will be of interest to those studying the region, as well as postcolonialism in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Author : V. Calotychos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137336804

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The Balkan Prospect by V. Calotychos Pdf

Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, the borders hitherto separating Greek culture and society from its contiguous Balkan polities came down, and Greeks had to reorient themselves toward their immediate neighbors and redefine their place within Europe and the new, more fluid global order. Projecting the political foresight and mustering the modernization policies to succeed in such an undertaking turned out to be no small feat, especially as the regional conflicts that had lain dormant during the Cold War were revived. Synthesizing the cultural, political, and historical into a sophisticated, interdisciplinary analysis, this innovative study untangles the prolonged 'historical moment' in which Greece and Europe were effectively held hostage to events in the Balkans - just at the time when both hoped to serve as the region's welcoming hosts.

Author : Diane O'Donoghue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501327964

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On Dangerous Ground by Diane O'Donoghue Pdf

Winner of the 2019 Robert S. Liebert Award (established jointly by the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research) In the final years of the 19th century, Sigmund Freud began to construct evidence for the workings of an “unconscious.” On Dangerous Ground offers an innovative assessment of the complex role that his encounters with visual cultures-architecture, objects from earlier cultural epochs (“antiquities”), paintings, and illustrated books-played in that process. Diane O'Donoghue introduces, often using unpublished archival sources, the ways in which material phenomena profoundly informed Freud's decisions about what would, and would not, constitute the workings of an inner life. By returning to view content that Freud treated as forgettable, as distinct from repressed, O'Donoghue shows us a realm of experiences that Freud wished to remove from psychical meaning. These erasures form an amnesic core within Freud's psychoanalytic project, an absence that includes difficult aspects of his life narrative, beginning with the dislocations of his early childhood that he declared “not worth remembering.” What is made visible here is far from the inconsequential surface of experience; rather, we are shown a dangerous ground that exceeds the limits of what Freud wished to include within his early model of mind. In Freud's relation to visual cultures we find clues to what he attempted, in crafting his unconscious, to remove from sight.

Author : Diana Mishkova,Balázs Trencsényi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785335853

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European Regions and Boundaries by Diana Mishkova,Balázs Trencsényi Pdf

It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions—supra-national geographical designations such as “Scandinavia,” “Eastern Europe,” and “the Balkans.” Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realities rather than a series of shifting, overlapping, and historically constructed concepts. This volume is the first to provide a synthetic account of these concepts and the historical and intellectual contexts in which they emerged. Bringing together prominent international scholars from across multiple disciplines, it systematically and comprehensively explores how such “meso-regions” have been conceptualized throughout modern European history.

Author : Vjosa Musliu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000393651

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Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices by Vjosa Musliu Pdf

This book provides a critical understanding of Europeanization and statebuilding in the Western Balkans, using the notion of everyday practices. This volume argues that it is everyday and mundane events that provide the entry points to showcase a broader set of practices of Europeanization in countries outside the EU. It does this by tracing notions of Europeanization in the everyday statebuilding of Kosovo, Europe Day celebrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, urban politics in Tirana, and space and place making in Skopje. In doing so, the book shows that everyday events tell us that as much as it is about changing structures, institutions, and economic models, Europeanization is also about changing behaviours and ideas in populations at large. At the same time, the work shows that countries outside the EU use everyday events to perform their belonging to Europe. This book will be of much interest to students of European Studies, Balkan politics, statebuilding, and International Relations generally.

Author : Giustina Selvelli
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783838215372

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The Alphabet of Discord by Giustina Selvelli Pdf

What is the relationship between writing systems and nationalism? How can different alphabets coexist in the same country? What is the destiny of the Cyrillic alphabet in Europe? Giustina Selvelli’s original work provides detailed answers to these far-reaching and potentially divisive questions and many more by examining several intriguing debates on topics of alphabets and national identity in a number of countries from the Balkan area over the course of the last 100 years. Following an encompassing perspective on alphabetic diversity, Selvelli, an expert on Southeast European Studies, reconstructs the ideological context of national discourses connected to the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, also taking a look at the Arabic and Glagolitic scripts, and interweaving issues on the symbolism of the alphabet with the complex recent history of the region, marked by the parallel influences of the East and the West. She also sheds light on the impact of a range of alphabet policies on ethnolinguistic minorities, proposing a new definition of “alphabetic rights” with special regard to the multiethnic legacy of the former Ottoman and Habsburg empires. This comprehensive book makes us discover the privileged role that writing systems played in the region’s delicate post-imperial and post-socialist transitions, leaving us captivated by peculiar stories such as that of the utopian “Yugoslav alphabet”.

Author : Cathie Carmichael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107016156

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A Concise History of Bosnia by Cathie Carmichael Pdf

Focuses on the dynamic and creative aspects of Bosnia's past as well as the contested, tragic and controversial.

Author : Violeta Ferati Bakia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666914542

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The European Union as a Mediator in Post-Conflict Western Balkans by Violeta Ferati Bakia Pdf

This book is among the few publications that analyze the determining conditions, outcome effectiveness and impact of EU mediation utilized as an instrument of conflict resolution that aims to solve protracted conflicts in the post-conflict settings of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Author : Nenad Mladenović,Angelo Sifaleras,Marija Kuzmanović
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030219901

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Advances in Operational Research in the Balkans by Nenad Mladenović,Angelo Sifaleras,Marija Kuzmanović Pdf

This proceedings volume presents recent theoretical and practical advances in operational research (OR). The papers focus on a number of key areas including combinatorial optimization, integer programming, heuristics, and mathematical programming. In addition, this volume highlights OR applications in different areas such as financial decision making, marketing, e-business, project management, scheduling, traffic and transportation. The chapters are based on papers presented at the 13th Balkan Conference on Operations Research (BALCOR). BALCOR is an established biennial conference. The selected papers promote international collaboration among researchers and practitioners, with a particular focus on the Balkan countries.

Author : Maria N. Todorova
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004382305

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Scaling the Balkans by Maria N. Todorova Pdf

Maria Todorova puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkans, Eastern Europe, Ottoman, Habsburg and Russian empires. Applying different perspectives and different methodological approaches, it insists on the heuristic value of scales

Author : Pavlović, Vojislav G.
Publisher : Balkanološki institut SANU
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9788671790734

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The Balkans in the Cold War: Balkan Federations, Cominform, Yugoslav-Soviet Conflict by Pavlović, Vojislav G. Pdf

Author : Cristian Tileagă,Jovan Byford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107034310

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Psychology and History by Cristian Tileagă,Jovan Byford Pdf

Exploring the relationship between psychology and history, this book considers how the disciplines could benefit from a closer dialogue.