THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE: A BALKAN PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The article describes the approach to and condenses some of the main arguments presented in the author’s book Beyond Balkansim: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making. It charts the main phases in the scholarly conceptualization of the Balkans and its characteristics and, against this background, tackles the question: What can we learn from the Balkan case about the actual production of regions?

Keywords

• the Balkans, historical region, symbolic geography, regionalization, ‘balkanism’