Naslov
Can Western Europe be at Home in the Balkans?

Autori
Blanuša, Nebojša ; Drakulić, Slavenka ; Morley, David ; Krajina, Zlatan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
EU, Europe Unfinished Europe and the Balkans in a Time of Crisis

Urednik/ci
Krajina, Zlatan ; Blanuša, Nebojša

Izdavač
Rowman & Littlefield

Grad
London : New York (NY)

Godina
2016

Raspon stranica
217-237

ISBN
978-1-7824-8978-7

Ključne riječi
EU ; Western Europe ; Balkans ; haunting histories ; other

Sažetak
As the title of this final chapter suggests, we wish to reverse the position that runs through much of the existing literature, of whether and how the Balkans have been seeking a home in Europe. Guided by Julia Kristeva’s important idea1 that it is only at the point at which we can imagine ourselves as strangers that we can start dealing with difference productively (as an enrichment of rather than threat to identity), we suggest that, as far as imagining a future Europe as “united in difference” goes, we need to think not only about the Balkans as part of a “growing” Europe but also of Europe as being at home in the Balkans. This approach has inspired us to engage in a conversation with two key cultural commentators of European identities, whose work has greatly contributed to a non-essentialist understanding of Europe, Slavenka Drakulić and David Morley.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Sociologija, Psihologija

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