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The Macedonian Conflict : Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World / Loring M. Danforth.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 15 halftones 7 maps 2 line illusContent type:
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  • 9780691221717
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Ethnic Nationalism: The Construction of National Identities and Cultures -- Chapter II. Conflicting Claims to Macedonian Identity and History -- Chapter III. The Construction of a Macedonian National Identity -- Chapter IV. Transnational National Communities -- Chapter V. The Macedonian Human Rights Movement -- Chapter VI. National Symbols and the International Recognition of the Republic of Macedonia -- Chapter VII. Ted Yannas: A Macedonian in Australia -- Chapter VIII. The Construction of National Identity among Immigrants to Australia from Northen Greece -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Greeks and Macedonians are presently engaged in an often heated dispute involving competing claims to a single identity. Each group asserts that they, and they alone, have the right to identify themselves as Macedonians. The Greek government denies the existence of a Macedonian nation and insists that all Macedonians are Greeks, while Macedonians vehemently assert their existence as a unique people. Here Loring Danforth examines the Macedonian conflict in light of contemporary theoretical work on ethnic nationalism, the construction of national identities and cultures, the invention of tradition, and the role of the state in the process of building a nation. The conflict is set in the broader context of Balkan history and in the more narrow context of the recent disintegration of Yugoslavia. Danforth focuses on the transnational dimension of the "global cultural war" taking place between Greeks and Macedonians both in the Balkans and in the diaspora. He analyzes two issues in particular: the struggle for human rights of the Macedonian minority in northern Greece and the campaign for international recognition of the newly independent Republic of Macedonia. The book concludes with a detailed analysis of the construction of identity at an individual level among immigrants from northern Greece who have settled in Australia, where multiculturalism is an official policy. People from the same villages, members of the same families, living in the northern suburbs of Melbourne have adopted different national identities.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Ethnic Nationalism: The Construction of National Identities and Cultures -- Chapter II. Conflicting Claims to Macedonian Identity and History -- Chapter III. The Construction of a Macedonian National Identity -- Chapter IV. Transnational National Communities -- Chapter V. The Macedonian Human Rights Movement -- Chapter VI. National Symbols and the International Recognition of the Republic of Macedonia -- Chapter VII. Ted Yannas: A Macedonian in Australia -- Chapter VIII. The Construction of National Identity among Immigrants to Australia from Northen Greece -- Bibliography -- Index

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Greeks and Macedonians are presently engaged in an often heated dispute involving competing claims to a single identity. Each group asserts that they, and they alone, have the right to identify themselves as Macedonians. The Greek government denies the existence of a Macedonian nation and insists that all Macedonians are Greeks, while Macedonians vehemently assert their existence as a unique people. Here Loring Danforth examines the Macedonian conflict in light of contemporary theoretical work on ethnic nationalism, the construction of national identities and cultures, the invention of tradition, and the role of the state in the process of building a nation. The conflict is set in the broader context of Balkan history and in the more narrow context of the recent disintegration of Yugoslavia. Danforth focuses on the transnational dimension of the "global cultural war" taking place between Greeks and Macedonians both in the Balkans and in the diaspora. He analyzes two issues in particular: the struggle for human rights of the Macedonian minority in northern Greece and the campaign for international recognition of the newly independent Republic of Macedonia. The book concludes with a detailed analysis of the construction of identity at an individual level among immigrants from northern Greece who have settled in Australia, where multiculturalism is an official policy. People from the same villages, members of the same families, living in the northern suburbs of Melbourne have adopted different national identities.

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