- Hardcover: 184 pages
- Publisher: Pluto Press (20 Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0745315941
- ISBN-13: 978-0745315942
- Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 14 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Macedonia has been contested by its three neighbours – Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece – during and since the demise of the Ottoman Empire. But the Macedonian Question extends far beyond the contested borders of Macedonia to immigrant communities in Europe, Australia and North America. The contributors to this collection explore the contemporary repercussions of the Macedonian Question, which has long been at the heart of Balkan politics. The volume recognises Macedonia as a global issue, and focuses on the politics of identity and difference in both homeland and diaspora.
The contributors argue that Macedonia as place and as concept is forged within a transnational network of diasporas, local communities, states and international institutions. They examine the increasingly important role of transnational bodies – including the European Union and human rights NGOs – in regulating relationships between states and minority groups, as well as in promoting multiculturalism and civic participation. They consider the role of scholarship and the media in defining Macedonia and its inhabitants. They also draw attention to the struggles of individuals in constructing, negotiating and even transforming their identities in the face of competing nationalisms and memories. In the process, they re-evaluate ‘ethnicity’ as a conceptual tool for understanding difference in the region, and raise questions about the implications of recognising, and not recognising, difference at the political level.
The contributors argue that Macedonia as place and as concept is forged within a transnational network of diasporas, local communities, states and international institutions. They examine the increasingly important role of transnational bodies – including the European Union and human rights NGOs – in regulating relationships between states and minority groups, as well as in promoting multiculturalism and civic participation. They consider the role of scholarship and the media in defining Macedonia and its inhabitants. They also draw attention to the struggles of individuals in constructing, negotiating and even transforming their identities in the face of competing nationalisms and memories. In the process, they re-evaluate ‘ethnicity’ as a conceptual tool for understanding difference in the region, and raise questions about the implications of recognising, and not recognising, difference at the political level.
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Jane K. Cowan teaches anthropology in the School of Cultural and Community Studies at the University of Sussex.
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There can never be any rational and documented argument to support the claim that Macedonia has nothing to do with Greece. Ancient Macedonians were as Greek as Spartans or Athenians were, worshiped the same gods, had the same customs and, of course, spoke the same language, as every single archaeological evidence has clearly shown. On the contrary, sixty years of systematic propaganda based on the falsification of ancient and recent history did not produce even a single piece of evidence or a logical argument to support the illogical connection between the ancient Macedonians and the people of Slav origin that live today in FYROM, speaking essentially the Bulgarian language, for the simple reason that Slavs came to this area from the north ten centuries after Alexander the Great. The country that has been appropriating for over fifty years Greek history, symbols and national heroes, is spread over the ancient region of Paeonia that was not part of the Greek world. Moreover,only a very small part of the geographic region of the ancient Macedonia is part of this country today. Why should FYROM have any claim to the Greek name Macedonia, and the history and culture it implies, when the actual adjective Macedonian could not describe any of the various ethnic groups that make up its population, and does not correspond even to the geography of the region it occupies?
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