Balkan Transnationalism at the Time
of Neoliberal Catastrophe
Offering a fresh look at the ways in which neoliberalism has claimed to cure the Balkan region of its ethnic particularities under the pretext of Europeanization, this book shows how the reconfiguration of the economic, political, and cultural landscape of the region has resulted in its functioning as Europes neocolony.
The contributors to this volume engage in postcolonial analysis of the Balkans past and present coloniality by way of interrogating race, racism, trauma, film, and global capitalism. They challenge the idea of a United Europe that rests on the assumption that the European Unions newness represents both a clean slate and the right to shift ownership of its colonial histories to former colonial subjects and their national histories. Taken as a whole, the volume seeks to transform Europes colonial amnesia into postcolonial awareness and to speak from within the Balkans as a site of Europes neocolony.
As it critically interrogates a neocolonial reconfiguration of the Balkans as a massive social overhaul, which includes at once global integration and local social disintegration, this book will be of interest to those studying the region, as well as postcolonialism in general.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
Duan I. Bjeli is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Criminology at the University of Maine, Portland, USA. He has published extensively in the area of Balkan Studies, including the books Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation (2002, ed. with Obrad Savi) and Normalizing the Balkans: Geopolitics of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (2011).
Balkan Transnationalism at the
Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe
Edited by
Duan I. Bjeli
First published 2019
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Contents
Duan I. Bjeli
Catherine Baker
Nikolay R. Karkov and Zhivka Valiavicharska
Miglena S. Todorova
Sara Pistotnik and David Alexander Brown
Sunnie Rucker-Chang
Radman elmi
Tomislav Z. Longinovi
Duan I. Bjeli
Piro Rexhepi
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Interventions, volume 20, issue 6 (August 2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe
Duan I. Bjeli
Interventions, volume 20, issue 6 (August 2018) pp. 751758
Chapter 1
Postcoloniality Without Race? Racial Exceptionalism and Southeast European Cultural Studies
Catherine Baker
Interventions, volume 20, issue 6 (August 2018) pp. 759784
Chapter 2
Rethinking East-European Socialism: Notes Toward an Anti-Capitalist Decolonial Methodology
Nikolay R. Karkov and Zhivka Valiavicharska
Interventions, volume 20, issue 6 (August 2018) pp. 785813
Chapter 3
Foreign Investment Inflows to Former Socialist Countries in the Balkans: Mapping Global Capitalism
Miglena S. Todorova
Interventions, volume 20, issue 6 (August 2018) pp. 814831
Chapter 4
Race in the Balkans: The Case of Erased Residents of Slovenia
Sara Pistotnik and David Alexander Brown
Interventions, volume 20, issue 6 (August 2018) pp. 832852
Chapter 5
Roma Filmic Representation as Postcolonial Object
Sunnie Rucker-Chang
Interventions, volume 20, issue 6 (August 2018) pp. 853867
Chapter 6
Financialization in the Crypto-Colonies: Greece and Thailand
Radman elmi
Interventions, volume 20, issue 6 (August 2018) pp. 868889
Chapter 7
The Migrant Crypt: Cultural Translation Across the Balkans
Tomislav Z. Longinovi
Interventions, volume 20, issue 6 (August 2018) pp. 890905
Chapter 8
Toward a Genealogy of the Balkan Discourses on Race
Duan I. Bjeli
Interventions, volume 20, issue 6 (August 2018) pp. 906929
Chapter 9
The Politics of Postcolonial Erasure in Sarajevo
Piro Rexhepi
Interventions, volume 20, issue 6 (August 2018) pp. 930945
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Catherine Baker is the School Co-Director of Learning and Teaching and Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History in the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures at the University of Hull, UK. She is a specialist in post-Cold War history, international relations, and cultural studies, including the post-Yugoslav region in a transnational and global context.
Duan I. Bjeli is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Criminology at the University of Maine, Portland, USA. He has published extensively in the area of Balkan Studies, including the books, Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation (2002, ed. with Obrad Savi) and Normalizing the Balkans: Geopolitics of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (2011).
David Alexander Brown is a Graduate Student at the Center for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria.
Nikolay R. Karkov is affiliated with the Department of Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.
Tomislav Z. Longinovi is a Professor in the Slavic Languages and Literature Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His research and language interests include South Slavic literatures and cultures, literary theory, Central and East European literary history, comparative Slavic studies, translation studies, and cultural studies.
