Self-Orientalization in South East Europe
The collapse of communist systems in South East Europe resulted in a landscape to be newly arranged. Diverse forces compete to capture the popular energies released by the embrace of old and new identities. Deficits of modernization in a post communist nexus have deepened cultural asymmetries and challenge EU integration in new ways. Drives to rule of the 'strong hand', feod-like patron-client relations, 'self-orientalization' as result of dilettante 'social engineering' and unrealistic cultural politics increase the entropy of transition. Plamen K. Georgiev discusses the most controversial issues of a possible accession of Turkey into EU and its impact on a number of collective identities as Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Croatia, vulnerable to Islamic fundamentalism, but also new breeds of nationalisms. This comparative study prompts apt ideas for EU coordinated national politics, fostering its cultural homogeneity and integrity in a global world of rising risks and new responsibilities
eBook, English, 2012
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2012
1 online resource
9783531932712, 9783531177588, 3531932713, 3531177583
801438560
Printed edition:
Crisis of Identities
Chalga, Turbo Folk and Manele
Machism, Feod-lile Patronage and Political Sultanism
'Shifting' and/or Bargained Identities
Self Orientalization and Modern 'Barbarization'
Cultural engineering Diletantis
Coping with The Euro-Musslim Brother(hoods)
SE Europe between Europeanisation and a New Cosmopolitanism