11 research outputs found
The Risk of War: Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia. By Vasiliki P. Neofotistos. The Ethnography of Political Violence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 205 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Photographs. Maps. $55.00, hard bound.
Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States, Dru C. Gladney, ed. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), 376 pp., 19.95 paper.
On the Border: Transborder Mobility, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries on the Albanian-Greek Frontier. By Vassilis Nitsiakos. Balkan Border Crossings: Contributions to Balkan Ethnography, no. 1. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2010. 498 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Figures. €49.95, paper.
The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination. By László Kürti. SUNY Series in National Identities. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xi, 259 pp. Notes. Glossary. Index. Photographs. 21.95, paper.
Making Peace Prevail: Preventing Violent Conflict in Macedonia. By Alice Ackermann. Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000. ix, 217 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. Maps. 24.95, paper.
Not MY Flag!” Citizenship and Nationhood in the Margins of Europe (Greece, October 2000/2003)
This article critically examines the generation of discourses on Greek identity following an episode that took place in northern Greece (2000/2003) when an Albanian student was elected flag-carrier in a commemorative parade. Three versions of Greek identity emerged in this context: the first was based on civic understandings of identity, promoting the current Europeanist project of citizenship as belonging. The second version drew upon the notion of “culture” as an all-encompassing concept to promote ideas of Greek cultural “purity” that have roots in Greek ethnogenesis. The third version adopted an understanding of the “nation” in terms of racial affiliation, transforming it thus into a natural category. The argument put forward is that in the context of the 2000/2003 episode (a) Greek self-perceptions are affected by the problematic economic and cultural position of Greece within Europe and (b) Greek discourses of identity are a form of resistance to processes of Europeanization that threaten traditional “imagined communities” embedded in history