1st Edition
Imagining Regions Hegemony and Emancipation in Europe and Asia
Acknowledgments vii
List of contributors viii
List of illustrations x
Introduction 1
OLGA LOMOVÁ, ZORA HESOVÁ, AND PAVEL BARŠA
PART I
Proto-national regional imagination 21
1 East or Chinese Turkistan? Pan-Turkism in Uyghur nation-building in Xinjiang, 1912–1949 23
ONDŘEJ KLIMEŠ, ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
2 Between East and West: Pan-Islamism in the nationalisation of Bosnian Muslims 45
ZORA HESOVÁ, CHARLES UNIVERSITY
3 Residual pan-Slavism in Putin’s Russia: Communitarian geopolitics and populist ideology 70
MIKHAIL SUSLOV
4 Scandinavian: From a political category to a demonym 90
HELENA BŘEZINOVÁ, CHARLES UNIVERSITY
PART II
Hegemonic constructions of regions in Europe 117
5 East of the EU, west of Eurasia: Central and Eastern Europe adrift between the emerging world-systems 119
MARTIN HÁLA, CHARLES UNIVERSITY
6 Regional imagination between two refugee crises: Emergence and dissolution of Central Europe as the Visegrad Group, 2015–2022 136
PAVEL BARŠA AND ONDŘEJ SLAČÁLEK, CHARLES UNIVERSITY
7 ‘Western Balkans’: Political dimensions and performative functions of the EU-emitted discourses toward the region 161
JASMIN HASIĆ, SARAJEVO SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND AMER KURTOVIĆ, IBU SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER
PART III
Imperial geopolitics and regional imagination in Asia 181
8 ‘A lofty Asia and the profound East’: Nehru, India, and the ideas of Asia 183
SHARINEE L. JAGTIANI11, GIGA INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN STUDIES
9 Between China and Japan: The shifting center of Asianist imaginations in Manchukuo, 1932–45 202
MARTIN BLAHOTA, ORIENTAL INSTITUTE, CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
10 “Overseas Chinese” and “Sinophone”: A region in making and breaking 217
OLGA LOMOVÁ, CHARLES UNIVERSITY
Index 233
Biography
Olga Lomová is Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the International Sinological Center at Charles University in Prague. She is author and co-author of several research monographs and translations from Chinese. She focuses on medieval Chinese poetry, the history of Chinese literature and of sinology, and the intellectual transformation of China under Western influence in the early 20th century.
Zora Hesová is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Charles University, Prague. She works on the Islamic intellectual tradition, modern Islam in Europe, and, more generally, on religion in contemporary politics, with a particular focus on Central and South-Eastern Europe.
