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

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
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 16:00–17:40 B2.44, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
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, which could be applied to the research of constructing of images, cultural representations and mental maps of other parts of Europe and the world.
Syllabus
  • 1) Powder keg and oasis of authenticity: The Balkans in the Czech media and political discourse
  • 2) From Orientalism to Balkanism: Constructing mental maps, images and stereotypes
  • 3) The idea of Europe and the search for the "other" across the centuries: Conceptualizing Eastern Europe
  • 4) Crossroads, bullwark and bridge: The Balkans as a borderland
  • 5) From Ottoman Turkish to German Geography: The Balkans as a mame
  • 6) The Balkan Peninsula or Southeast Europe?: The Balkans as a geographical space
  • 7) "Turkey in Europe": The Balkans as a historical heritage
  • 8) Europe and the power of imagination: the Balkans as a mental construct
  • 9) The Balkans are the others: The Balkans as an identity
  • 10) From noble savages to Balkan parties: The Balkans as a positive stereotype
  • 11) Gypsies, brass bands and violence: the Balkans in the sign of 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
  • The Balkans and the West : constructing the European other, 1945-2003. Edited by Andrew Hammond. Farnham: Ashgate, 2004, xxiii, 236. ISBN 9780754632344. 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. First published. London: Saqi, 2004, 320 stran. ISBN 0863565743. info
  • 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
  • GUERRINA, Roberta. Europe : history, ideas and ideologies. First published. London: Arnold, a member of the Hodder Headline Group, 2002, viii, 222. ISBN 9780340763711. info
  • MIKKELI, Heikki. Europe as an idea and an identity. Edited by Jo Campling. Houndmills: Palgrave, 1998, x, 263. ISBN 9780312210397. info
  • 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
  • PETKOV, Kiril. Infidels, Turks, and women : the South Slavs in the German mind, ca. 1400-1600. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1997, 335 stran. ISBN 3631314728. info
  • FOTEVA, Ana. Do the Balkans begin in Vienna? : the geopolitical and imaginary borders between the Balkans and Europe. New York: Peter Lang, 2014, 330 stran. ISBN 9781433115653. 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
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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