1st Edition

Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe

Edited By Dušan I. Bjelić Copyright 2019
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Offering a fresh look at the ways in which neoliberalism has claimed to cure the Balkan region of its ethnic particularities under the pretext of Europeanization, this book shows how the reconfiguration of the economic, political, and cultural landscape of the region has resulted in its functioning as Europe’s neocolony. The contributors to this volume engage in postcolonial analysis of the... Read more

Introduction: Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe  1. Postcoloniality Without Race? Racial Exceptionalism and Southeast European Cultural Studies  2. Rethinking East-European Socialism: Notes Toward an Anti-Capitalist Decolonial Methodology  3. Foreign Investment Inflows to Former Socialist Countries in the Balkans: Mapping Global Capitalism  4. Race in the Balkans: The Case of Erased Residents of Slovenia  5. Roma Filmic Representation as Postcolonial "Object"  6. Financialization in the Crypto-Colonies: Greece and Thailand  7. The Migrant Crypt: Cultural Translation Across the Balkans  8. Toward a Genealogy of the Balkan Discourses on Race  9. The Politics of Postcolonial Erasure in Sarajevo

Biography



Dušan I. Bjelić is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Criminology at the University of Maine, Portland, USA. He has published extensively in the area of Balkan Studies, including the books Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation (2002, ed. with Obrad Savić) and Normalizing the Balkans: Geopolitics of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (2011).