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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Central European University Press
- Date of Publication 31 July 2026
- ISBN 9789048574056
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 Illustrations, black & white 700
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Long description:
In this incisive book, Maria Todorova revisits the region she famously theorized, asking not only what has changed in the past thirty years but whether the conceptual tools used to understand the Balkans still make sense. Treating the Balkans as a historically contingent and ultimately transient construct, Todorova traces their rise, transformations, and anticipated exhaustion, while confronting long-standing silences—especially around race. She then turns a critical eye to Balkan studies itself, examining its institutionalization and the allure, limits, and misapplications of post- and decolonial frameworks. The final section shifts scale dramatically, using brief biographies to reveal how individuals are shaped—and distorted—by scholarly and political frames. Subtle, unsparing, and deeply reflective, this book reopens the epistemological question of the Balkans at a moment when easy paradigms have become impossible to sustain.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Preface: Ascent
I. Tracing the Balkans or Mission Possible: Fallout
The Beginning of the Balkans
Race as a Category of Analysis
The End of the Balkans
II. Measuring the Balkans or Mission Possible: Dead Reckoning
Institutionalization of Balkan Studies and Dominant Trends
The Zeitgeists of Empire, Coloniality, and Their Derivatives
On Decoloniality
Do the Balkans Need Their Own Epistemology?
III. Framing Balkan Biographies or Mission Possible: Rogue Nation
Pancho Vladigerov: Art Music? World Music? National Music?
Christian Rakovsky: Cosmopolitanism and the World Revolution
The Chronocoenosis of Angelina Boneva
Postface: Rappel
Bibliography
Index
