Wendy Bracewell Orientalism, Occidentalism and Cosmopolitanism: Balkan Travel Writings on Europe When I was a girl I loved reading travel writing, but it was always a slightly doubtful pleasure. Travel writing was suspiciously fun to read for something that claimed to be non-fiction: it offered all the charms of escapism and vicarious adventure, but…
Read MoreRecep Boztemur (Ankara) Nationalism and the Other: The Making of Nation and Nation-State in the Balkans Summary Throughout the twentieth century, ethnic structures continued to coexist under supranational political organizations not only because of historical legacy of imperial organizations transcending national identities and boundaries, but also due to the ideological coalitions among…
Read MoreYordanka Bibina The Turkish Sight on the West or the Emancipation of the East? Summary The problem of Turkish perception of the West has its deep roots; however we can say that since the Tanzimat the thinly fibers and sporadic touching between these two worlds turn into a lasting interest that finely, accelerated the…
Read MoreAntoaneta Balcheva Occidentalism – rhetorical forms of self-identification Summary Being a subject of admiration, Western Europe and the ascendancy it exercises over the Balkan elites for many years imply the ambivalent manner in which they would treat the national values and universality, as well as their attitude towards the national goals and the liberal-democratic…
Read MoreBoyka Ilieva The image of Italy and Italians in the Bulgarian geography textbooks from the National Revival Summary The desire of the Bulgarians to be a part of the advanced European countries builds socio-political and cultural priorities of the Bulgarian National Revival. The socio-political duties are visible in the fight for clerical independence and…
Read MoreNadejda P. Alexandrova A “European” Gaze to the Turkish Province or What Do Ladies See Summary This paper tries to explore the modes of reversibility of the notion of Europeanness, which do not depend on some clear-cut opposition between Eastern-Western Europe but on dynamic relations, such as those between metropolis and province, culture and…
Read MoreAntoineta Balcheva Digital Era and Nation State Summary The basic interest of this paper is directed at the impact of the new digital era communication technologies on the national state, which to a large extent implies the effects the Internet, because of its capacity and its characteristics, has on the nation state. This concerns…
Read MoreTeodora Bakardjieva Ruse “great and multi-commercial” or is “Modern Ruschuk” really modern Summary Ruse has been labeled a modern city for decades, and the Ruse inhabitants has been defining themselves as modern people, as better Europeans than the other, even in crisis periods. The roots of this demonstrated modernity could be traced back to…
Read MoreRusana Beyleri Socio-linguistic Problems in Albanian Literature Summary The standardization process of the Modern Albanian, which has two main forms, the Tosk and the Gheg, has a long and diverse history during the XX C. It started with the Monastery Congress (Bitola, 1908) when the problem of the Albanian alphabet was finally solved after…
Read MoreRumiana Preshlenova Higher Education in Austro-Hungary and the Bulgarians 1879-1918. New Dispositions and New Opportunities Summary This paper explores the changes in the orientation of Bulgarian university students’ abroad during the period from the establishment of the first Bulgarian government and the First World War. It resumes the outcomes of a research project enhancing…
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