Drakulić, Slavenka; Morley, David G.; Krajina, Zlatan and Blanuša, Nebojša. 2016. Can Western Europe be at home in the Balkans? In: Zlatan Krajina and Nebojša Blanuša, eds. EU, Europe, Unfinished: Mediating Europe and the Balkans in a Time of Crisis. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, pp. 217-238. ISBN 9781783489787 [Book Section]

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As the title of this final chapter suggests, we wish to reverse the position that runs through much of the existing literature, of whether and how the Balkans have been seeking a home in Europe. Guided by Julia Kristeva’s important idea that it is only at the point at which we can imagine ourselves as strangers that we can start dealing with difference productively (as an enrichment of rather than threat to identity), we suggest that, as far as imagining a future Europe as “united in difference” goes, we need to think not only about the Balkans as part of a “growing” Europe but also of Europe as being at home in the Balkans....

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Balkans, Europe
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event September 2016 Published
Item ID:	26022
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2019 09:59
Last Modified:	14 Mar 2019 09:59
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/26022

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