Loring M. Danforth

The Macedonian Conflict (eBook, ePUB)

Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Greeks and Macedonians are presently engaged in an often heated dispute involving competing claims to a single identity. Each group asserts that they, and they alone, have the right to identify themselves as Macedonians. The Greek government denies the existence of a Macedonian nation and insists that all Macedonians are Greeks, while Macedonians vehemently assert their existence as a unique people. Here Loring Danforth examines the Macedonian conflict in light of contemporary theoretical work on ethnic nationalism, the construction of national identities and cultures, the invention of tradition, and the role of the state in the process of building a nation. The conflict is set in the broader context of Balkan history and in the more narrow context of the recent disintegration of Yugoslavia.

Danforth focuses on the transnational dimension of the "global cultural war" taking place between Greeks and Macedonians both in the Balkans and in the diaspora. He analyzes two issues in particular: the struggle for human rights of the Macedonian minority in northern Greece and the campaign for international recognition of the newly independent Republic of Macedonia. The book concludes with a detailed analysis of the construction of identity at an individual level among immigrants from northern Greece who have settled in Australia, where multiculturalism is an official policy. People from the same villages, members of the same families, living in the northern suburbs of Melbourne have adopted different national identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691221717
• Artikelnr.: 60203619

Autorenporträt

Loring M. Danforth is Professor of Anthropology at Bates College. He is the author of The Death Rituals of Rural Greece and Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement, both available from Princeton University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Preface
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
3
Ch. I
Ethnic Nationalism: The Construction of National Identities and
Cultures
11
Ch. II
Conflicting Claims to Macedonian Identity and History
28
Ch. III
The Construction of a Macedonian National Identity
56
Ch. IV
Transnational National Communities
79
Ch. V
The Macedonian Human Rights Movement
108
Ch. VI
National Symbols and the International Recognition of the Republic
of Macedonia
142
Ch. VII
Ted Yannas: A Macedonian in Australia
185
Ch. VIII
The Construction of National Identity among Immigrants to
Australia from Northern Greece
197
Bibliography
253
Index
271

Rezensionen

Loring Danforth humanizes the Macedonian conflict, shows us real people as they live this conflict, and makes clear that, despite its unique features, this struggle over ethnic and national identity is shared with other groups throughout the world. A good, rapid read filled with the fruit of first-rate, on-the-scene digging into people's lives.