2 On the Privilege of the Peripheral Point of View: A Beginner’s Guide to the Study and Practice of Balkanism

Obad, Orlanda

doi:10.1163/9789004275089_003

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“…Furthermore, orientalisation is never a one-sided process. It also entails a dialectical construction of ideas about the West both by those who are depicted in orientalist ideas and by those who are involved in the production of knowledge in the West (Obad 2014). Both occidentalist and orientalist representations are dependent on politics in the societies that produce such interpretations, including power hierarchies of race, gender, religion and so on.…”

Section: Why Europe and European Peripheries?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Theory from the Peripheries

Kojanić

2020

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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This article argues for the benefits of a relational approach to understanding centres and peripheries across scales in anthropology, as opposed to an approach based on substantive notions of geographic areas. Based on an extensive literature review, I expose how the salience of the division into Western and Eastern Europe, and, increasingly, into Northern and Southern Europe, obscures the divisions on other scales within and across these divisions. Instead, I argue for thinking relationally about centres and peripheries, highlighting two relevant contributions that the anthropology of postsocialism can make to a European anthropology: one is based on analyses of how places become peripheral, while the other starts from analyses of political-economic changes and their social impacts after the collapse of socialism.

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Section: Why Europe and European Peripheries?mentioning

confidence: 99%