[Bilimsel Haber] Fwd: Bringing Migration and History into the Equation:Re-Imagining Nationhood and Belonging

[Onur Inal]

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From: Süheyla Schroeder <skirca at bahcesehir.edu.tr>
Date: 2011/6/20
Subject: Bringing Migration and History into the Equation:Re-Imagining
Nationhood and Belonging
To: Onur Inal <onurinal at onurinal.com>


Merhaba Onur bey,

Berlin'de Ekim 2011 tarihinde düzenlenecek "Bringing Migration and History
into the Equation:Re-Imagining Nationhood and Belonging" başlıklı
konferans duyurusunu ekte gönderiyorum. Üyelere gönderebilirseniz
sevinirim. Teşekkürler

İyi çalışmalar dilerim.
Süheyla Schroeder


> From: Isa Blumi [ngapeja at rocketmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 3:26 PM
>
> Dear H-Turk members:
>
> I would like to bring to your attention my new book:
>
> Reinstating the Ottomans: Alternative Balkan Modernities, 1800-1912
> (Palgrave, 2011)
>
> http://us.macmillan.com/reinstatingtheottomans
>
> Product Description
>
> This book is inspired by recent scholarship that reexamines the
> dramatic changes affecting heterogeneous societies in late nineteenth
> century empires. It expands the analysis of transformation beyond
> conventional methods of studying "failed" empires - the emergence of
> ethnonationalism, sharpened class and gendered sectarian differences -
> and restates the need to guard against unnecessary anachronisms that
> have infused post-World War I state-centric historiography. The issues
> specific to the western Balkans constituted in 1820-1912 a confluence
> of autonomous, ever-shifting polities that constantly interacted with
> each other and the larger world in varying degrees through the filter
> of an Ottoman administration, resulting in new kinds of political and
> economic forces that ultimately account for a distinctive regional
> experience of modernity.
>
>
> Comments from Reviewers
>
> "Reinstating the Ottomans will - and it should, I believe - provoke
> strong reactions, but this is only a strength of the book because its
> well-founded conclusions and meticulously established observations -
> if not new facts - is a much needed challenge to any student not only
> of the western Balkans but of the Ottoman Empire as a whole as well as
> of south-eastern Europe. His historical scholarly methodology reflects
> a strict observance of the rigorous basic rules of the modern
> historical science, namely that the historian should show how things
> actually happened. This is what Blumi does. The same basic rules also
> require that the historian should refrain from judging the past. This
> is the tendency Blumi takes to task when questioning the categories
> used by the national historiography.  Blumi fruitfully applies
> insights from social science and literary studies among others in his
> analysis of the sources. This approach enables him to identify - and
> 'give a voice' to - those who were governed." - Mogens Pelt, Associate
> Professor in International History at Saxo Institute, History Section,
> University of Copenhagen
>
> "This book beautifully traces the coincidences and personalities
> during the crucial second half of the nineteenth century when the new
> states emerged, and shows how the Ottoman state responded and how
> states, borders, and bureaucracies descended across the Balkans. By
> focusing on the regions which remained with the Ottoman Empire
> longest, Blumi sketches a rich narrative of people who did not
> identify as Albanians, Ottomans, or Muslims, but whose ambiguity of
> identity was a defining mark of the region at least until the early
> twentieth century. The book is not only a rewarding read for those
> interested in the history of Balkans, but it also helps us understand
> the present in this part of Europe better and forces us to take a hard
> look at the seeming 'normality' of nations today." - Florian Bieber,
> Professor for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz
>
> "Isa Blumi masterfully questions the way Balkan history is often told;
> instead of using national binaries, he revives the fluid affiliations
> of those inhabitants of the Western Balkans that became residents of
> Albania after 1912. His examination of the final years of the Ottoman
> Empire in the Balkans is refreshing in its faithful recovery of the
> conflicting experiences of individuals and communities facing
> fundamental change. This is an excellent contribution to a growing
> body of works that demonstrate the futility of searching for firm
> national identities in the Ottoman Balkans and instead explore the
> local and regional loyalties of the population." - Theodora
> Dragostinova, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio State
> University
>
>
> ###
>
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Associate Prof. Dr. Süheyla Schroeder
Director of Bahçeşehir University in Berlin
WissenschaftsForum
Markgrafenstr. 37
10117 Mitte, Berlin
Office No: 312

Tel: +49 30 20607150
Fax: +49 30 20607149
Email: skirca at bahcesehir.edu.tr
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süheyla Schroeder
Bahcesehir University
Faculty of Communication
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34349 Istanbul, Turkey
Tel: +90(212)381-0402
Email: skirca at bahcesehir.edu.tr
www.bahcesehir.edu.tr
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