Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/16503
Title: The presence of the past in the era of the nation state
Authors: Argenti, N
Keywords: Balkans;collective memory;melancholy;nostalgia
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
Citation: Social Analysis, 2018, 61 (1), pp. 1 - 25 (25)
Abstract: With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this special issue proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time. All of the articles in this issue explore themes to do with the transmission of collective memories of post-Ottoman state formation and the malaise associated with a contemporary epoch that, echoing late modernity, we might term ‘late nationalism’. This introductory article examines the several manifestations of this general phenomenon under the rubric of post-Ottoman topologies, suggesting that where history creates a fixed, empiricist record of the past, topologies denote the flux of col
URI: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/16503
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sa.2017.610101
ISSN: 0155-977X
http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sa.2017.610101
Appears in Collections:Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
Fulltext.pdf703.83 kBAdobe PDFView/Open


Items in BURA are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.