National Histories, Natural States: Nationalism and the Politics of Place in Greece

National Histories, Natural States

Nationalism and the Politics of Place in Greece
 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Number of Volumes: Paperback
 
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ISBN13:9781350180147
ISBN10:1350180149
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:240 pages
Size:234x156 mm
Weight:345 g
Language:English
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Recent conflicts in southeast Europe have drawn attention to the close relationship between place and national identity. In this book Robert Shannan Peckham explores the conscious link between identity and homeland as this was articulated in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Greece, a period important to the understanding of the present Balkan crisis. He demonstrates how territory was appropriated through a range of social practices and institutional activities: writing fiction, identifying folklore, sponsoring archaeology, studying geography and cartography. The particularities of place, Peckham argues, were construed both as underpinning a territorial expansion and as a resistance to the homogenizing drive of a state-sponsored nationalism. This book makes an innovative theoretical contribution to the debate on nationalism and nationhood and suggests new ways of thinking about geography and cultural politics.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Mapping The Nation: Language, Geography, and the New Ethnography
2. Cultural Landscapes and the Formation of the Greek State
3. Frontier Fictions
4. Folklores of Modernity
5. Local Knowledge, National History
6. Islands Apart: Rural Fictions
7. Life Underground: Archaeology and the Recovery of the Present
8. Map Mania
Conclusion: Nationalism and the Location of Culture