Mirroring Europe: Ideas of Europe and Europeanization in Balkan Societies (Balkan Studies Library, 13)

Mirroring Europe offers refreshing insight into the ways Europe is imagined, negotiated and evoked in Balkan societies in the time of their accession to the European Union. Until now, visions of Europe from the southeast of the continent have been largely overlooked. By examining political and academic discourses, cultural performances, and memory practices, this collection destabilizes supposedly clear and firm division of the continent into East and West, 'old' and 'new' Europe, 'Europe' and 'still-not-Europe'. The essays collected here show Europe to be a dynamic, multifaceted, contested idea built on values, images and metaphors that are widely shared across such geographic and ideological frontiers. Contributors are: Čarna Brkovic, Ildiko Erdei, Ana Hofman, Fabio Mattioli, Marijana Mitrovic, Nermina Mujagic, Orlanda Obad, and Tanja Petrovic. Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Part 1 De-Provincializing Western Europe 1 Introduction: Europeanization and the Balkans 2 On the Privilege of the Peripheral Point of View: A Beginner’s Guide to the Study and Practice of Balkanism Part 2 Performing Europe 3 Balkan Music Awards: Popular Music Industries in the Balkans between Already-Europe and Europe-To-Be 4 Regimes of Aesthetics: Competing Performances Surrounding the Skopje 2014 Plan Part 3 Europe as Nostalgia / Utopia 5 Mourning the Lost Modernity: Industrial Labor, Europe, and (post)Yugoslav Post-socialism 6 IKEA in Serbia: Debates on Modernity, Culture and Democracy in the Pre-Accession Period 7 Nostalgia and Utopia in Post-Yugoslav Feminist Genealogies in the Light of Europeanization Part 4 Europe in Political Imagination 8 The Quest for Legitimacy: Discussing Language and Sexuality in Montenegro 9 The European Union as a Spectacle: The Case of the Slovenian-Croatian Dispute over the Sea Border Index "Mirroring Europe offers refreshing insight into the ways Europe is imagined, negotiated and evoked in Balkan societies in the time of their accession to the European Union. Until now, visions of Europe from the southeast of the continent have been largely overlooked. By examining political and academic discourses, cultural performances, and memory practices, this collection destabilizes supposedly clear and firm division of the continent into East and West, 'old' and 'new' Europe, 'Europe' and 'still-not-Europe.' The essays collected here show Europe to be a dynamic, multifaceted, contested idea built on values, images and metaphors that are widely shared across such geographic and ideological frontiers. Contributors are: Čarna Brković, Ildiko Erdei, Ana Hofman, Fabio Mattioli, Marijana Mitrović, Nermina Mujagić, Orlanda Obad, and Tanja Petrović"--Provided by publisher