The Macedonian Question: Cultural, Historiography, Politics

by Roudometof, Victor

• ISBN13: 9780880334518
• ISBN10: 0880334517
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

In the aftermath of the Kosovo Crisis, it is said that Macedonia will be next. This volume provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of the Macedonian Question. Illustrating the intimate connections between culture and ethnic politics in Macedonia, essays cover the construction of Macedonian national identity in Australia and Northern Greece; the ideological perspectives of opposing camps in the historiography of Macedonia; the interplay between politics and history writing in the Republic of Macedonia; the question of a Macedonian national minority in the Pirin region of Bulgaria; and the political and social relations between Albanians and Macedonians in the Republic of Macedonia.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Culture, Identity, and the Macedonian Question: An Introduction	1	(24)
Victor Roudometof
Ecclesiastical Nationalism and the Macedonian Question in the Australian Diaspora	25	(30)
Loring Danforth
Transforming Identity, Constructing Consciousness: Coercion and Homogeneity in Northwestern Greece	55	(44)
Anastasia Karakasidou
The Pen and the Sword: Reviewing the Historiography of the Macedonian Question	99	(44)
Vassilis Gounaris
Iakovos Mihailidis
A Rising to Count On: Ilinden Between Politics and History in Post-Yugoslav Macedonia	143	(30)
Keith Brown
The Modern Macedonian Standard Language and Its Relation to Modern Macedonian Identity	173	(34)
Victor A. Friedman
Perceptions of Ethnicity in the Bulgarian Political Culture: Misunderstanding and Distortion	207	(30)
Stephan E. Nikolov
In Search of ``Bigfoot'': Competing Identities in Pirin Macedonia, Bulgaria	237	(22)
Bonka Stoyanova-Boneva
Stephan E. Nikolov
Victor Roudometof
Conflicting Ambitions and Shared Fates: The Past, Present, and Future of Albanians and Macedonians	259	(42)
Duncan Perry
About the Authors	301