British School at Athens Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies
Volume 1
Series Editor : Professor Catherine Morgan
Director, British School at Athens, Greece
The study of modern Greek and Byzantine history, language and culture has formed an integral part of the work of the British School at Athens since its foundation. This series continues that pioneering tradition. It aims to explore a wide range of topics within a rich field enquiry which continues to attract readers, writers, and researchers, whether their interest is primarily in contemporary Europe or in one or other of the many dimensions of the long Greek post-classical past.
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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Balkan heritages : negotiating history and culture / edited by Maria Couroucli and Tchavdar Marinov.
pages cm (British School at AthensModern Greek and Byzantine studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-6724-9 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 1. Historic preservationBalkan Peninsula. 2. Historic preservationPolitical aspectsBalkan Peninsula. 3. Cultural propertyProtectionBalkan Peninsula. 4. ArchitectureConservation and restoration--Balkan Peninsula. 5. Cultural landscapesConservation and restorationBalkan Peninsula. 6. NationalismBalkan Peninsula. 7. Balkan PeninsulaAntiquities. 8. Balkan Peninsulapolitics and government. 9. Balkan PeninsulaHistoriography. 10. Balkan PeninsulaHistory, Local.
I. Couroucli, Maria. II. Marinov, Tchavdar.
DR20.B3415 2015
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2015019037
ISBN 9781472467249 (hbk)
Vemund Aarbakke is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. He is currently leading the research project Modernity Battling Tradition: The Introduction of Kemalism to the Muslim Minority of Western Thrace, 19201930. His research is focused on the Balkans during the modern period with an emphasis on themes such as nationalism, irredentism, population movements, refugees, minorities and democratisation. He is the author of Ethnic Rivalry and the Quest for Macedonia 18701913 (Boulder, Co, 2003), internationalisation of the Muslim Minority issue ( Sdost-Forschungen , 71 [2012]) and Pomak language usage and the Spell of Nationalism: The Case of the Pomaks in Greece (in r. Greenberg and M. Nomachi [eds], Slavia Islamica: Language, Religion and Identity [Sapporo, 2012]).
Fanny Arnaud is a doctoral candidate in ethnology and social anthropology at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales and associate member of the institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique in Paris. She is currently completing her dissertation under the direction of Elisabeth Claverie. Her research interests include tourism, nationalism, war and mass violence, ethnic cleansing, collective identities and memory. She is the author of a number of articles, including intgration europenne et mmoire de la guerre en Croatie ( Revue de lUnion europenne , 580 ([JulyAug. 2014]).
Aleksandar Bokovi is Professor of Anthropology at the university of Belgrade and Prometeo researcher, ULEAM, Ecuador. His research interests include anthropological theory, history of anthropology, semiotics, myth and religion. He is the author of Kratak uvod u antropologiju (Zagreb, 2010), editor of Other Peoples Anthropologies (Oxford and New York, 2008) and co-editor with Chris Hann of Anthropological Field on the Margins of Europe, 19451991 (Berlin and Zrich, 2013).
Maria Couroucli is a Senior researcher at the CNRS, Paris, working on modern Greece. Her research interests include ethnic and national representations, shared religious practices in the post-Ottoman world and their relation to community and territory and questions of memory and identity in relation to the Greek Civil War (19459). She was Director of Studies for Modern Studies at the French School at Athens from 2010 to 2015. Her latest book, with Dionigi Albera, is Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean. Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries (Bloomington, IN, 2012).
Raymond Detrez taught history and cultural history of Eastern Europe and modern Greece at the universities of Ghent and l euven in Belgium. His research is focused on pre-national and national identities in the Balkans from the late eighteenth century onward. He is the author of a number of articles and books dealing with nation-building and conflicts in south-eastern Europe and of the Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria (Lanham, MD, 2006).
Ada Hajdu is an assistant professor at the national university of Arts in Bucharest, where she also received her doctorate in art history. Her research interests include the architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Balkan countries, especially national architectural styles and the architecture of health resorts. She is the author of two books on Romanian architecture at the turn of the twentieth century Art Nouveau in Romania (Bucharest, 2008) and The Romanian National Style: Architecture and National Project (Bucharest, 2009) and of several articles on the topic.
Marc Herzog is assistant director of the British institute at Ankara and holds a doctorate from the University of Exeter. He is co-editor with Philip Robins of The Role, Position, and Agency of Cusp States in International Relations (London and New york, 2014) and with Shane Brennan of Turkey and the Politics of National Identity (London and New York, 2014). He has written and contributed to the research fields of Turkish party politics, political Islam, democratization and forms of transnational and global democracy, Turkish foreign policy, the politics of identity, contemporary social movements and the politics of memory.