Balkan Heritages

Maria Couroucli is an anthropologist, Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France) and Director of Modern Studies at the Ecole française d'Athènes, Greece; Tchavdar Marinov is a historian dealing with Modern and Contemporary Balkan history and a former fellow of the French School at Athens (Ecole française d’Athènes), Greece.

• Preface / Introduction, Couroucli and Marinov / Part I Modern Nationalism and Its Rooting in Urban Space: Ethnonyms in the pre-national era: what’s in a name?, Detrez / Urban space and Bulgarian-Greek antagonism in Thrace, 1870-1912, Aarbakke / Part II The Invention of National Architecture and Urban Heritage: The pavilions of Greece, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, Hajdu / Constructing Bulgarian heritage: the nationalisation of the Byzantine and Ottoman architectures of Melnik, Marinov / ‘Skopje 2014’: erasing memories, building history, Janev / Part III Destruction of Heritage and the Memories of War: Of bridges and borders: post-war urban geographies in Mostar, Mazzucchelli / Memory of war in Croatia: between tourism and nationalism, Arnaud / Part IV Ottoman Legacy and the Re-Articulation of Islam in the Balkans: Balkan discourses of the European ‘other’: Turkey’s foreign policy in south-eastern Europe under the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Herzog / Beyond the politics of religion: rationalising popular Islam among the Slav-speaking Muslims in Greece, Tsibiridou / Conclusion: Escape from the future: anthropological practice and everyday life, Bošković / Index.