The Trap of Backwardness: Modernity, Temporality, and the Study of Eastern European Nationalism

Todorova, Maria

doi:10.2307/3650070

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“…The method of associating difference with temporal discontinuity is perhaps best represented by the work of Johannes Fabian (1983) whose account of the ‘denial of coevalness’ (or a denial of a ‘shared time’) has been a touchstone for work exploring the uses of time in practices of inclusion and exclusion. Other work in the study showed how similar mechanisms operated in relation to Romani peoples (Trumpener, 1992), Indigenous Australians (Lloyd, 2000) and more broadly in relation to Eastern Europe (Todorova, 2005) and indeed all ‘developing’ peoples (Helliwell and Hindess, 2005). An important subtlety here is that the denial of coevalness might posit that an excluded group is capable of change, but has simply not ‘kept up’ with Western societies and so are disjointed from the community, or there might be stronger claims that the group in question is incapable of change and is therefore completely discontinuous from the community (Frink et al., 2002; Jordan, 1995).…”

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Time and community: A scoping study

Bastian

2014

Time & Society

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This paper reports on the results of a commissioned scoping study that explored the extent of research available on time and community. Using a range of techniques designed to provide a rapid overview of this relatively indistinct research area, 885 studies were identified for inclusion in the study. Importantly, only 85 of these were identified as 'highly relevant' to the study's focus. An analysis of these articles revealed 11 core themes in work on time and community. Two cross-cutting themes that arose from the full range of included studies were then selected for further analysis. These were the role of time in inclusion and exclusion and 'critical temporalities', that is, work that develops critical temporal responses as part of addressing social inequalities. This broader analysis suggested three overarching concerns shared by both cross-cutting themes: past, present and future; continuity and discontinuity; and multiple rhythms of time use. After exploring how these concerns are addressed in the literature, the paper concludes with an outline of the gaps in research on time and community, as well as recommendations for further research.

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Section: Cross-cutting Themesmentioning

confidence: 68%

Time and community: A scoping study

Bastian

2014

Time & Society

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“…Some argue that Brexit has interrupted the potential futures of EU citizens in the UK, a temporal disjuncture to their continued security as citizens (Lulle et al, 2017). Yet others highlight the feeling of being "left behind" and excluded is not new and reflects a long-standing discourse of the "backwardness" of Eastern Europeans (Todorova, 2005).…”

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Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit

Botterill

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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Community is a nebulous, contested concept in geography spanning research on social networks, encounters, mobilities, citizenship and belonging. However, its use as a discursive trope in public, policy and academic work points to continued relevance as an analytical category, particularly as meanings of community in Europe are being tested by Brexit. This paper combines diverse scholarship on the geographies of encounter, mobility and citizenship to revisit the concept of “community” using a relational lens. This is explored through an original empirical analysis of the community practices of Polish nationals in Scotland in the context of Brexit. Using biographical‐narrative data collected before and after the UK referendum on EU membership, the paper discusses three forms of community practised by Polish nationals: community centre, a cyber community and a community festival. I advance a relational perspective on community that overcomes spatially and temporally rigid dichotomies of communal experience, emphasising community as a dynamic, interconnected and power‐laden process involving multiple temporalities.

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“…Un'altra prospettiva che ci sembra promettente è quella di uscire dall'ottica centro-periferia, che a lungo ha dominato gli studi storici sull'Europa del Sud-Est, in base alla quale questa regione sarebbe un angolo del continente marginale e passivo, dominato da legami prepolitici basati sul sangue e la religione, mero ricettacolo di discorsi e pratiche politiche elaborate altrove. Gli studi sul «balcanismo» hanno invece sottolineato i caratteri transnazionali delle tradizioni politiche balcaniche, che si inseriscono in contesti più ampi 5 . Anche le forme di governance elaborate tra le due guerre in Jugoslavia possono essere lette alla luce del contesto europeo e del Mediterraneo orientale.…”

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Oltre il fallimento. La prima Jugoslavia, una storia europea

Giomi¹,

Petrungaro²

2020

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Beyond Failure. The first Yugoslavia, a European history According to an established scholarship, the history of interwar Yugoslavia can be mainly interpreted through the lens of the national question and authoritarianism. This contribution aims at challenging this view, stressing how this country was also the stage of innovative forms of governance, shaped by complex interactions between state and non-state actors. What emerges is an original Yugoslav response to the crisis of European liberalism.

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The Trap of Backwardness: Modernity, Temporality, and the Study of Eastern European Nationalism

Cited by 58 publications

References 12 publications

Time and community: A scoping study

Time and community: A scoping study

Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit

Oltre il fallimento. La prima Jugoslavia, una storia europea

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