EU, Europe Unfinished : mediating Europe and the Balkans in a time of crisis / edited by Zlatan Krajina and Nebojša Blanuša.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krajina, Zlatan, editor.

Blanuša, Nebojša, 1974- editor.

Series:

Radical cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

International relations.

Balkan Peninsula--Foreign relations--European Union countries.

Balkan Peninsula.

European Union countries--Foreign relations--Balkan Peninsula.

European Union countries.

Balkan Peninsula--Politics and government--1989-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

ix, 245 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]

Summary:

What is the meaning of the Balkans in the early twenty-first century? Former Yugoslav countries seek a self-flattering alliance with 'the West' via EU membership, while the Union's citizens increasingly declare to be 'Eurosceptic'. At the same time, economic turmoil in countries like Greece confronts massive incoming waves of refugees, for whom Europe's south-eastern borders are the nearest shelter. In this time of crisis, the Balkans return on the agenda as a parable of Europe's haunting questions about its future. EU, Europe Unfinished brings together established and emerging media and cultural scholars to explore colliding visions of space and identity within a declining continent. Whereas Europe imagines the Balkans to be the source of its nearest trouble, the region envisions Europe as a refuge from ongoing post-socialist transition. The book adopts a variety of critical perspectives - from media and policy analysis to anthropology, art history and autobiography - to investigate where Europe is headed with the Balkans in its skein, 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Book jacket.

Contents:

Why the Balkans, why now, who cares? / Zlatan Krajina

Re-assembling and disciplining social Europe : turbulent moments and fragile f(r)ictions / Noémi Lendvai and Paul Stubbs

European media policy limitations in the Balkans : observations on TV Pink BH / Monika Metykova

The renaming machine in the Balkans as a strategy of "accumulation by dispossession" / Suzana Milevska

Balkan mimesis : kitsch as a geographic concept / Ivaylo Ditchev

"Europe unfinished" in Bosnia and Herzegovina : the 2014 protests in the international media / Eunice Castro Seixas

The Balkans go global : Mikhail Veshim's The English neighbour and the post-socialist variations on "the Balkan" theme / Milena Marinkova

EUrientation anxieties : Islamic sexualities and the construction of Europeanness / Piro Rexhepi

Transitional aesthetics : apprehending time between the Balkans and Europe in contemporary art practices / Uro¿ ?voro

How we survived Europe (and never laughed) : the role of liberal-humanitarian utopia in Croatia's accession to the EU / Orlanda Obad

The foreigners / Claudia Ciobanu

Can Western Europe be at home in the Balkans? : Slavenka Drakulic and David Morley in conversation with Zlatan Krajina and Nebojsa Blanusa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: EU, Europe Unfinished

ISBN:

9781783489787

1783489782

9781783489794

1783489790

OCLC:

957056828

Publisher Number:

99969664701

40026553050