The Politics of Regionalist Science

The Balkans as a Supranational Space in Late Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century Academic Projects

Bibliographic Data

ID6185576
AuthorsDiana Mishkova (0000-0002-4329-522X, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume39
Issue2-3
Pages266-303
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEast Central Europe (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-3037 • E-ISSN: 1876-3308
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/18763308-03903003
OpenAlexW2072294994
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

The article looks into the various scholarly (and disciplinary) conceptualizations of the Balkans/Southeastern Europe, which were spawned within the region itself prior to World War II. These regionalist schemes drew heavily on political values and relied on political support, while at the same time seeking to spearhead and legitimize political decisions or reformulate (geo)political visions. The article discusses the political implications of this scholarship with the idea to underscore notions of the Balkans which differed considerably from the one summarily and, in recent years, persistently conceptualized as mirroring the Western (discourse of) Balkanism. Not only were those notions more subtle and differentiated than an ‘orientalizing perspective’ would make us expect; a remarkable feature of the academic projects discussed here was their counterhegemonic thrust and the assertion that the Balkans are and should be treated as a subject

Assertion · Discipline · Geopolitics · Mirroring · Nexus (standard) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Vision · Anthropology · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society

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