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Author Green, Sarah F

Title Notes from the Balkans : Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (334 pages)
Series Princeton Modern Greek Studies
Princeton modern Greek studies.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps and Figures ; List of Tables ; Acknowledgments ; Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Pseudonyms ; CHAPTER 1 Marginal Margins ; CHAPTER 2 Travels ; CHAPTER 3 Moving Mountains ; CHAPTER 4 The Balkan Fractal ; CHAPTER 5 Counting
CHAPTER 6 Embodied Recounting CHAPTER 7 Developments ; APPENDIX Tables ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
Summary 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
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Subject Marginality, Social -- Greece -- Pōgōni (Region)
Cultural fusion -- Epirus (Greece and Albania)
Greeks -- Epirus (Greece and Albania) -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Boundaries
Cultural fusion
Ethnic relations
Greeks
Marginality, Social
Social conditions
SUBJECT Pōgōni (Greece : Region) -- Social conditions
Epirus (Greece and Albania) -- Ethnic relations
Greece -- Boundaries
Albania -- Boundaries
Subject Albania
Europe -- Epirus
Greece
Greece -- Pōgōni (Region)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400884353
1400884357