Toward European Identity: Role of national historiographies in creating Balkan myths

Stojanovski, Strasko and Ananiev, Jovan (2011) Toward European Identity: Role of national historiographies in creating Balkan myths. In: International conference "Identity in the Era of Globalization and Europeization", 3-4 Nov 2011, Rectorate of University "St. Cirilus and Methodius"- Skopje. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

The rise of the nation and the promotion of national ideology have a key role in the redefinition of the Balkan identities. The new era of modernity is actually offering brand new standards for the definition of Otherness which is a precondition for the construction of the borders among the groups. During the imperial era, the communities were building the vision of the world through religious systems and their obeying as universal criteria. The new conditions of the market economy and citizenship offered the new national state as the only alternative, along with the nationalism, as an accompanying ideology.
However, in order to homogenize the future national entities, it is necessary to create criteria for ethnicity that would be able to create a unique ethical awareness or expulsion on the basis of the so-called mutual collective memory, regardless of the territorial bases or the linguistic-cultural distinctions. Therefore, even during the 19th century the proto-national intelligence would accelerate, establishing the ethnical boundaries, pursuant the myth of the origin and the durability of the discrepancies. This would become an eternal task of the social engineering, as well as a task for the creators who shaped the framework of the Balkan historiographies.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Subjects:	Humanities > History and archaeology Social Sciences > Political Science Social Sciences > Sociology
Divisions:	Faculty of Law
Depositing User:	Strasko Stojanovski
Date Deposited:	23 Nov 2012 10:25
Last Modified:	10 Aug 2015 07:58
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/1805

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