The Balkans : mission possible / Maria Todorova

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todorova, Marii︠a︡ Nikolaeva, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balkan Peninsula--History.

Balkan Peninsula.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

illustration

Place of Publication:

Budapest : CEU Press, [2026]

Summary:

"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"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Tracing the Balkans, or mission possible : fallout

Measuring the Balkans, or mission possible : dead reckoning

Framing Balkan biographies, or mission possible : rogue nation

Postface : rappel

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed September 10, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Todorova, Marii︠a︡ Nikolaeva Balkans

ISBN:

9789048574063

9048574064

9789048574070

9048574072

OCLC:

1582278131

Publisher Number:

CIPO000420126

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license