Author: Jana BachevaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Recognition of the Macedonian Identity
Author: Jana BachevaMacedonia
Author: Jane K. CowanPublisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745315898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Macedonia has been contested by its three neighbours – Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece – during and since the demise of the Ottoman Empire. But the Macedonian Question extends far beyond the contested borders of Macedonia to immigrant communities in Europe, Australia and North America. The contributors to this collection explore the contemporary repercussions of the Macedonian Question, which has long been at the heart of Balkan politics. The volume recognises Macedonia as a global issue, and focuses on the politics of identity and difference in both homeland and diaspora.The contributors argue that Macedonia as place and as concept is forged within a transnational network of diasporas, local communities, states and international institutions. They examine the increasingly important role of transnational bodies – including the European Union and human rights NGOs – in regulating relationships between states and minority groups, as well as in promoting multiculturalism and civic participation. They consider the role of scholarship and the media in defining Macedonia and its inhabitants. They also draw attention to the struggles of individuals in constructing, negotiating and even transforming their identities in the face of competing nationalisms and memories. In the process, they re-evaluate ‘ethnicity’ as a conceptual tool for understanding difference in the region, and raise questions about the implications of recognising, and not recognising, difference at the political level.
Denying Ethnic Identity
Author: Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.)Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564321329
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
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The Contest for Macedonian Identity 1870-1912
Author: Nick AnastasovskiPublisher:
ISBN: 9780980476309
Category : Macedonia
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Contest For Macedonian Identity 1870-1912 is a scholarly book detailing the ongoing campaigns to divide and conquer the Macedonian people - first by the Ottoman Empire under which Macedonia was colonized by Muslims and many Macedonians converted to Islam; and then by Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria as they fought to turn Macedonians into Greeks, Serbs and Bulgarians using State-sponsored teachers, priests, bandits and terrorists. The Contest For Macedonian Identity examines in detail this fierce competition, and how it was fought at the political, religious, educational, and day-to-day village level. It analyzes Ottoman, Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian and other sources and introduces new and original research by the author from the Bitola region, western Macedonia, and many other parts of ethnic and Ottoman Macedonia. This is a definitive work on the occupation of Macedonia in the modern era and the development and defence of the Macedonian identity. With 520 pages and a large format, The Contest for Macedonian Identity 1870-1912 is a big, generous book, well researched and easy to read.
The Macedonian Conflict
Author: Loring M. DanforthPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691221715
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Greeks and Macedonians are presently engaged in an often heated dispute involving competing claims to a single identity. Each group asserts that they, and they alone, have the right to identify themselves as Macedonians. The Greek government denies the existence of a Macedonian nation and insists that all Macedonians are Greeks, while Macedonians vehemently assert their existence as a unique people. Here Loring Danforth examines the Macedonian conflict in light of contemporary theoretical work on ethnic nationalism, the construction of national identities and cultures, the invention of tradition, and the role of the state in the process of building a nation. The conflict is set in the broader context of Balkan history and in the more narrow context of the recent disintegration of Yugoslavia. Danforth focuses on the transnational dimension of the "global cultural war" taking place between Greeks and Macedonians both in the Balkans and in the diaspora. He analyzes two issues in particular: the struggle for human rights of the Macedonian minority in northern Greece and the campaign for international recognition of the newly independent Republic of Macedonia. The book concludes with a detailed analysis of the construction of identity at an individual level among immigrants from northern Greece who have settled in Australia, where multiculturalism is an official policy. People from the same villages, members of the same families, living in the northern suburbs of Melbourne have adopted different national identities.
Macedonia and the Macedonians
Author: Andrew RossosPublisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 081794883X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Throughout history, every power that has aspired to dominate the Balkans, a crucial crossroads between Europe, Asia, and Africa, has sought to control Macedonia. But although Macedonia has figured prominently in history, its name was largely absent from the historical stage, representing only a disputed territory of indeterminate boundaries, until the nineteenth century. Successive invaders— Roman, Gothic, Hun, Slav, Ottoman— passed through or subjugated the area and incorporated it into their respective dynastic or territorial empires. This detailed volume surveys the history of Macedonia from 600 BC to the present day, with an emphasis on the past two centuries. It reveals how the "Macedonian question" has long dominated Balkan politics and how, for nearly two centuries, it was the central issue dividing Balkan peoples, as neighboring nations struggled for possession of Macedonia and denied any distinct Macedonian identity— territorial, political, ethnic, or national. The author concludes that Balkan acceptance of a Macedonian identity, nation, and state has become a necessity for stability in the Balkans and in a united Europe.
Between Nationalism and Europeanisation
Author: Nevena NanchevaPublisher: ECPR Press
ISBN: 1785521845
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Why do we need European integration in increasingly fragmented and antagonised European societies? How can European integration relate to the national stories we carry about who we are as a nation and where we belong? What to do with the national stories that tell traumatising tales of past loss and sacrifice, and depict others as villains or foes? Can we still claim that our national states are the most legitimate way of organising European political communities today? Engaging with these big questions of European politics, Nevena Nancheva tells a small story from the periphery of Europe. Looking at two post-communist Balkan states – Bulgaria and Macedonia – she explores how their narratives of national identity have changed in the context of Europeanisation and EU membership preparations. In doing so, Nancheva suggests that national identity and European integration might be more relevant than previously thought.
Taking Stock of Ethnic Group Identity in a Town in Greek Macedonia
Author: Constantinos KaltsoudasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The question addressed in this thesis is whether the local identity of a group of individuals who define themselves as Dopii Makedones (a subgroup of Greek Macedonians) living in the region of Greek Macedonia in northern Greece, constitute an ethnic group. Dopii are not considered an ethnic group by Greek society or by officials of the Greek state. The recognition of their ethnic group status by Greek society is complicated by their role in the Macedonian Question. According to the anthropological literature, the development of Dopian identity was influenced by the Greek state's nation-building process in the region during the 19 th and 20 th centuries. It was also reinforced by their economic and societal marginalization by state representatives and by wider society. It has been observed that in addition to their local ethnic identity, a small fraction of this group have adopted a Macedonian national identity rather than a Greek one. A number of factors have been defined as being conducive to the maintenance of Dopian identity, such as lack of upward mobility, personal experiences with society and the state, and local interethnic relations. In the town of Pentalofos, the ethnic group identity of Dopii was largely symbolic. Intermarriage was singled out as the factor that had supplanted ethnic group stratification and relations. Their group identity was based on their notion of shared ethnic origins, their ability to speak the dialect of Dopika, and their collective historical experience. The transmission of their dialect is on the wane, as young adults do not speak it.
Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict
Author: Victor RoudometofPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This is an analysis of inter-ethnic relations in the Southern Balkans. It examines the evolution of the "Macedonian question" and the production of rival national narratives by Greeks, Bulgarians and Macedonians. It deconstructs the national narratives to show their limitations and biases.
The Macedonian Question
Author: Victor RoudometofPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the aftermath of the Kosovo Crisis, it is said that Macedonia will be next. This volume provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of the Macedonian Question. The essays included illustrate the intimate connections between culture and ethnic politics in Macedonia