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Albanians
Aristion
Armatoloi
Arvanitika
Author_Sarah F. Green
Balkan Federation
Balkan Wars
Balkanization
Balkans
Border
Border area
Bosnian crisis
Breakup of Yugoslavia
Bulgarians
Byzantine Empire
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Circassians
Colonialism
Cultural heritage
Culture of Greece
Epirus
Epirus (region)
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European studies
Geography of Greece
Greek Civil War
Greek name
Greek Resistance
Greek War of Independence
Greeks
Greeks in Albania
Hellenic studies
Ideology
Imperialism
Ioannina
James Gleick
Kakavia (border crossing)
Katharevousa
Land degradation
Land grant
Macedonia (region)
Member state
Modernism
Modernity
Multiculturalism
Northern Epirus
Occidentalism
Ottoman Empire
Pastoralism
Pogoni
Politician
Population exchange between Greece and Turkey
Postmodernism
Republic of Macedonia
Romani people
Sarakatsani
Serbian nationalism
Serbians
Slovenia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Southeast Europe
Statistic
Subsidy
Surname
Thesprotia
Transhumance
Transliteration
Transnationalism
United States
Vlach (Ottoman social class)
Westernization
Yugoslav Wars
Zagori
Product details
- ISBN 9780691121994
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jul 2005
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Sarah F. Green is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, and has spent over ten years researching the Greek-Albanian border area in Epirus, northwestern Greece. She is the author of "Urban Amazons" (Macmillan).
