Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2009
Publication Title
South Atlantic Quarterly
Keywords
Geopolitics, Hegemony, Balkan Peninsula, Social Conditions, USM
Abstract
This essay focuses on Balkan discourse geography as a hidden contingency of the intellectual work of Slavoj Žižek and Julia Kristeva. It takes into account the extent to which their self-proclaimed cosmopolitanism and universalism reflect disidentification with their Balkan origins. This disidentification alerts one to the unacknowledged centrality of Kristeva's and Žižek's Balkan origins to their writing about the region, and it also points to the Balkanist character of their intellectual production.
Recommended Citation
Bjelić, D. I. (2009). The Balkans: Radical Conservatism and Desire. South Atlantic Quarterly, 108(2), 285-304.
COinS
Comments
Copyright of South Atlantic Quarterly is the property of Duke University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract.
Article may be found full text: http://saq.dukejournals.org/content/108/2/285.full.pdf+html
doi: 10.1215/00382876-2008-034