Instructor: M. Velikonja
Balkan studies are recently developed discipline between social sciences and humanities that deals with different aspects of history and present of the Balkans, and with its ideological construction and reception. Although the region is scientifically researched in different ways for a long time, this new approach was established some fifteen years ago with the ground-breaking study of Maria Todorova “Imagining the Balkans” (1997).
Main research topics of the Balkan studies is not only the present situation in the Balkans, but mainly ideology of Balkanism as a discourse and practice of negative and stereotypical views on the Balkans in different fields of social reality: (pop) culture, politics, ethnicity, religious affiliation, and mentalities.
