JSB_SLAV51 Balkans and Europe in Each Other's Eyes: Images and Stereotypes Across Centuries

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught online.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavel Pilch, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 18:00–19:40 B2.44
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Předmět bude v semestru podzim 2020 vyučován online přes MS Teams.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
What was the role of Balkans in creation of European identity? How did a cradle of Europe become a cursed periphery? How is Europe perceived in its South-Eastern part? Aim of this course is to map the pictures and stereotypes connected with Balkans, their historical background, causes of their rise and means of usage. Focus will be given on searching for answer to one question: How are these imaginations influencing thinking of Europeans, including those living in peninsula called by their Northern neighbours Balkans two centuries ago?
Learning outcomes
Based on lectures, audio-visual material and home reading, student will be introduced to causes, forms and outcomes of constructing Balkans as a sum of negative pictures and stereotypes in the minds of Europeans. Student will be able to put this knowledge to a wider theoretical frame based on Post-Colonial Criticism and imagology.
Syllabus
  • 1) Balkan as a name: Origin and usage
  • 2) Between the reality and imagination: Is there any Balkan "per se"?
  • 3) Geographical Balkan: Where does it lie and to where does it reach?
  • 4) "Turkey in Europe": Balkan as an Ottoman legacy
  • 5) Creation of Eastern Europe: Balkan as a concept
  • 6) From Orientalism to Balkanism: Balkan from the point of view of Post-Colonial Criticism
  • 7) Pictures and stereotypes: Balkan in the optics of imagology
  • 8) Imaginary Balkan: When, how and why was it created?
  • 9) Balkan and the others: Is there a Balkan identity?
  • 10) Gypsies, brass music and violence: Balkan and autocolonialism
Literature
  • TODOROVA, Marija Nikolaeva. Imagining the Balkans. Updated edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, xi, 273. ISBN 9780195387865. info
  • LUKETIĆ, Katarina. Balkan : od geografije do fantazije. Zagreb: Algoritam, 2013, 463 s. ISBN 9789533166186. info
  • BAKIĆ-HAYDEN, Milica – HAYDEN, Robert: Orientalist Variations on the Theme “Balkans”: Symbolic Geography in Recent Yugoslav Cultural Politics. Slavic Review 51 (1992): 1-15.
  • BAKIĆ-HAYDEN, Milica: Nesting Orientalisms: The Case of Former Yugoslavia. Slavic Review 54 (1995): 917–931.
  • GOLDSWORTHY, Vesna. Inventing Ruritania : the imperialism of the imagination. revised and updated edition. London: Hurst & Company, 2013, xxxi, 302. ISBN 9781849042529. info
  • NORRIS, David A. In the wake of the Balkan myth : questions of identity and modernity. First published. Houndmills: Macmillan Press LTD, 1999, xii, 182. ISBN 9780333751688. info
  • Balkan as metaphor : between globalization and fragmentation. Edited by Dušan I. Bjelić - Obrad Savić. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2002, xii, 382. ISBN 0262524481. info
  • MAZOWER, Mark. The Balkans : from the end of Byzantium to the present day. pbk ed. London: Phoenix, 2001, viii, 176. ISBN 9781842125441. info
  • Europe and its other : notes on the Balkans. Edited by Alenka Bartulović - Rajko Muršič - Božidar Jezernik. Ljubljana: Oddelek za etnologijo in kulturno antropologijo, Filozofska fakulteta, 2007, 226 s. ISBN 9789612372040. info
  • JEZERNIK, Božidar: Wild Europe: The Balkans in the Gaze of Western Travellers. London 2004.
  • HAMMOND, Andrew (ed.): The Balkans and the West: Constructing the European Other, 1945–2003. London – New York 2004.
  • Uses of the other"The East" in European identity formation. Edited by Iver B. Neumann. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999, xv, 281 p. ISBN 0816630836. info
  • MIŠKOVA, Diana. Beyond Balkanism : the scholarly politics of region making. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019, x, 282. ISBN 9780815376705. info
  • The Balkans as Europe, 1821-1914. Edited by Timothy Snyder - Katherine Younger. First published. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2018, 171 stran. ISBN 9781580469159. info
  • STOIANOVICH, Traian. Balkan worlds : the first and last Europe. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015, xix, 433. ISBN 9781563240324. info
  • Heikki Mikkeli: Europe as an Idea and an Identity, New York: St. Martin's 1998.
  • Roberta Guerrina: Europe: History, Ideas, and Ideologies, London: Arnold 2002.
  • DELANTY, Gerard. Inventing Europe : idea, identity, reality. First published. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1995, x, 187. ISBN 9780333622032. info
  • WOLFF, Larry. Inventing Eastern Europe : the map of civilization on the mind of the enlightement. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994, xiv, 419. ISBN 0804723141. info
  • SAID, Edward W. Orientalism. Repr. London: Penguin Books, 2003, xxv, 396. ISBN 9780141187426. info
  • The Routledge companion to postcolonial studies. Edited by John McLeod. London: Routledge, 2007, xiii, 252. ISBN 9780415324977. info
  • Imagology : the cultural construction and literary representation of national characters : a critical survey. Edited by Manfred Beller - Joep Leerssen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007, xvi, 476. ISBN 9789042023185. info
  • Kako vidimo strane zemlje : uvod u imagologiju. Edited by Davor Dukić. Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 2009, 203 s. ISBN 9789536979684. info
  • ŠÍSTEK, František. Junáci, horalé a lenoši : obraz Černé Hory a Černohorců v české společnosti, 1830-2006. Praha: Historický ústav, 2011, 290 stran. ISBN 9788072861842. info
  • Jitka Malečková: “The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Brill 2020.
  • MILUTINOVIĆ, Zoran. Getting over Europe : the construction of Europe in Serbian culture. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011, 287 stran. ISBN 9789042032712. info
  • Greece and the Balkans : identities, perceptions and cultural encounters since the Enlightenment. Edited by Dīmītrīs Tziovas. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, viii, 280. ISBN 0754609987. info
  • FLEMING, K. E. The Muslim Bonaparte : diplomacy and orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999, xii, 206. ISBN 0691001944. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, audio-visual materials, class discussion, essay.
Assessment methods
Regular attendance, active participation in lessons, essay (minimum range 3 standard pages).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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