The Commodification of Otherness and the Ethnic Unit in the Balkans: How to Think About Albanians
The Commodification of Otherness and the Ethnic Unit in the Balkans: How to Think About Albanians
Author(s): Isa BlumiSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Identity of Collectives, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Balkans; ethnocentrism; postcommunist Balkans; international community; Balkan conflicts; Albanians;
Summary/Abstract: Since Edward Said's Orientalism, segments of the academy have become increasingly sensitive to the ethnocentrism and the subtle undertones of racism that have come to be synonymous with the study of the non-Western world. Despite this postmodernist discourse, I will demonstrate how a number of important residuals of the cultural and economic vision polemicized by Said, among others, and the tendency to write for "the market, " have taken root in the production of academic and diplomatic analyses of the post-communist Balkans. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 12/1998
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 527-569
- Page Count: 43
- Language: English
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