Book Review: Language and Area Studies: East Central and Southeastern Europe, A Survey

1972 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 476-477
Author(s):  
Joshua A. Fishman
Keyword(s):  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central And Southeastern Europe

scholarly journals Making Modern Social Science: The Global Imagination in East Central and Southeastern Europe after Versailles

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Lebow ◽  
Małgorzata Mazurek ◽  
Joanna Wawrzyniak
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Professional Meeting ◽  
Participant Observer ◽  
The Western Pacific ◽  
Central And Southeastern Europe

The events of 1914 initiated the redrawing of many boundaries, both geopolitical and intellectual. At the outbreak of the war the London-based anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski was at a professional meeting in Australia. Technically an ‘enemy alien’ (a Pole of Austro-Hungarian citizenship), he was barred from returning to Britain; stranded in Australia, under surveillance by authorities and with insecure finances, Malinowski began fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands that would result in his groundbreakingArgonauts of the Western Pacific(1922).1Argonauts’ influence rested on its compelling portrait of the anthropologist as ‘participant-observer’, the insider/outsider uniquely poised to decode and recode cultures and meanings.2Malinowski thus adeptly retooled his own ambiguous status into a paradigm of the ethnographer’s optimal subject-position – quipping that he himself was particularly suited to this role, as ‘the Slavonic nature is more plastic and more naturally savage than that of Western Europeans’.3

Secular Power and Sacral Authority in Medieval East-Central Europe

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal History ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
New Research ◽  
Secular Power ◽  
Central And Southeastern Europe

This book brings together a team of scholars representing a broad range of interests and new approaches in medieval studies to explore the interactions of secular power and sacral authority in central and southeastern Europe in the period. Contributors present new research on the region's political and legal history, nobility and government institutions, war and diplomacy, literature and literacy, sacred and secular art, archaeological research, heritage studies, and much more.

The Threat of Selective Democracy. Popular Dissatisfaction and Exclusionary Strategy of Elites in East Central and Southeastern Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihai Varga ◽  
Mihai Varga ◽  
Annette Freyberg-Inan
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Central And Southeastern Europe

The large dissatisfaction of citizens with post-communist democracy in Central and Eastern Europe favors populist and anti-systemic parties and movements. These parties accuse their rivals of various forms of corruption and prescribe anti-systemic cures, including the discretionary exclusion of their rivals from political life. Analyzing the situations in Poland, Romania, and Hungary more closely, we reveal a risk of the development of “selective democracy,” in which key elites and their supporters redefine the borders of the polity in an exclusionary way, denying various groups of “enemies” legitimate access and representation and thereby undermining basic democratic principles.

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