Self-Orientalization in South East Europe

• Main Author: Georgiev, Plamen K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012.
• Series: CrossCulture
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Knowledge - Discourse.; Sociology, general.

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 ch...

Table of Contents:

• 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.