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(De)Touring Europe: The Balkan, The Postcolonial and Christos Tsiolkas’s Dead Europe
No full textThis article will interrogate the fictional mobilisation of ‘the Balkan’ as a trope in Christos Tsiolkas’s novel Dead Europe. Reversing the conventions of European travel writing, the novel stages a shambolic Grand Tour of vampiric contamination, which exposes the vacuity of Europe’s self-professed ideals of progress, rationality and liberalism. Whilst bearing the imprint of a recognisable Balkanist rhetoric which locates the origins of racial prejudice in a Second World War Greek village and the excesses of conspicuous consumption in a contemporary Athens, Dead Europe also presents ‘the Balkan’ as a disruptive medium which jostles the Australian protagonist out of his political complacency and awakens him to his own visceral, if spectral, relation to prejudice. ‘The Balkan’ in this set-up does not function as a mere backdrop to identify against; rather, it is a site of a radical interrogation of the coherence, boundedness and erasures of the (Australian and European) self – an interrogation that confronts without offering a solution or redemption
İsmet Balkan ile sözlü tarih görüşmesi
No full textBu görüşme, Aziz Elbas ve Ahmet Erdönmez koordinatörlüğünde Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi bünyesindeki Bursa Araştırmaları Merkezi tarafından Merinos projesi başlığı altında gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu proje kapsamında yapılan görüşmelerin sayısı 59'dur.1937 yılında Bursa’da doğan İsmet Balkan, 1956 yılında Merinos Fabrikası’nda çalışmaya başlar. İlk olarak boyahanede çalışan Balkan, 1 sene usta muavini olarak görev yapar. Daha sonra da çift büküm bölümünde ustabaşı olarak çalışır. İşçilerin çalışma sisteminden ve aldığı ücretlerden bahsettikten sonra fabrikanın çalışma sistemine de değinir. Fabrikanın anlam ve önemini ve üretilen kumaşların kalitesini anlatır. Son olarak çalıştığı yıllara ait bazı anılarını aktarır.Bursa Büyükşehir BelediyesiMerinos. editör Aziz Elbas. Bursa: Bursa Kültür A.Ş., 2015
Mehmet Balkan ile sözlü tarih görüşmesi
No full textBu görüşme, Aziz Elbas ve Ahmet Erdönmez koordinatörlüğünde Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi bünyesindeki Bursa Araştırmaları Merkezi tarafından Çarşının Öyküsü projesi başlığı altında gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu proje kapsamında yapılan görüşmelerin sayısı 170'dir.1938 yılında Bursa’da doğan Mehmet Balkan, ilkokul eğitimini İstiklal Okulu'nda alır. 16 yaşına kadar Kapalıçarşı'da çıraklık yapan Balkan, 1958 yangınından önce başka bir lokantada kalfa olarak çalışmaya başlar. Esnaf gelenekleri hakkında bilgiler verdikten sonra göçlerin şehri olumsuz etkilediğini ve ilişkileri bozduğunu ifade eder.Bursa Büyükşehir BelediyesiÇarşının öyküsü. editör Aziz Elbas. Bursa: Bursa Kültür A.Ş., 2010
Through the Balkan States: Home movies as travel texts and tourism histories in the Mediterranean, c.1923-39
No full textNewly available lightweight cine camera equipment provided affluent British holidaymakers with an innovative travel accessory in the mid 1920s. Travel narratives produced by early camera-touting enthusiasts may be likened to preceding forms of travel experience depicted in art and written form, but important differences occur too. This discussion explores issues of place representation, ethnography and perceptions of regional identities, cultures, and histories through reference to amateur holiday footage filmed in the Balkans in 1934. Analysis of rural and urban scenes, traditions, and itinerary, as well as the cinematic processes found within this filmic travelogue, are related to earlier outsiders’ responses and contemporary travel texts including guides, diaries and other genres of travel literature. Contemporary debates on post-conflict identity in the Balkan region and tourism history within the Mediterranean, as well as socio-cultural and aesthetic aspects of non-professional film-making form a wider context for this focus upon Balkan imagery
Convergence and Inequality of income: the case of Western Balkan countries
No full textThis paper analyses the convergence process of inequality in income among five Balkan countries in the 1989-2008 period. This study is carried out in comparison with the situation in the European Union of 27 countries. The originality of our approach is to consider the convergence of countries' contributions to the international income inequality. The model allows simultaneously to test the convergence process of income and inequality. The results indicate a real convergence process between Balkan countries, while persistence is detected between European Union countries. However, the thorough investigations stress that there are differences in the pace of convergence across sub-periods. Thus, income and inequality convergence are higher during the 2000s for the EU-27, while the majority of convergence took place during the second half of the 1990s for Balkan countries. Accordingly, the development gap between Balkans and European Union remains important.Convergence, Inequality, Panel Data, Balkan countries, European Union
Greek banks in the Balkan countries: conclusion derived from analysis of their balance sheets
No full textDuring the 1990s the Greek economy has flourished, with the help of the banking system, which, at the same period, has undergone considerable deregulation. The stock market “explosion” at the end of the decade has provided the necessary funds for the expansion of many Greek Banks in various countries and particularly those of the Balkan area. Some Greek companies had already expanded their business activities in these countries, which at the time were in the process of transition to the market economy, thus giving to the Greek Banks the incentive to follow their clientele. The expansion of Greek banks in the Balkans was such that they obtained significant market shares in some of the area’s countries. In the current paper we make an effort to examine the feasibility of the expansion of Greek banks in these countries, focusing especially on their financial efficiency. To that end the Balance Sheets of the parent banks, as well as those of their Balkan subsidiaries and associate companies where they held an equity share were studied and analyzed. Our main conclusion is that the activities of the Geek banks in the area were successful and had positive effects to their profitability and they reinforced their overall financial state.Banking System, balance sheets, financial analysis, profitability, efficiency, Balkan area.
Balkan Ülkeleri Arasında Bilimsel ve Kültürel Bilgilerin Korunması ve Yönetiminde İşbirliği
No full textIn this paper the regional and international cooperative programmes carried out to preserve and manage the scientific
and cultural information sources in the Balkan countries
are reviewed. As successful digitization, protection and management of information sources is closely related with the availability of the networking facilities, the Internet infrastructures of the Balkan countries needed to support the “digital science” and “digital culture” are studied to identify applications and services that can be streamlined through cooperative endeavors
Preservation of Scientific and Cultural Heritage in Balkan Countries
No full textThe peoples living in the Balkan Peninsula over centuries have created a very rich cultural heritage and the constant political upheavals in the region have affected the development and preservation of their cultures. This paper aims to review the internet infrastructure and networked readiness levels of the Balkan countries, which are conducive to scientific co-operation and preservation of digitised cultural heritage. It also explores the destructive effects of wars on the cultural riches of the region.
The internet facilities and the scientific production of the Balkan countries were identified using published sources and Thomson’s Web of Science database. A game-theoretic approach was used to expound the consequences of wars and the adverse effects of the nation-building process on cultural heritage artefacts.
Balkan countries lack sound internet infrastructures, hindering their contributions to the world of science and stifling scientific co-operation among themselves in terms of joint papers. The coordinated efforts have yet to exist to streamline the digital preservation of the unique cultural heritage of the Balkan countries.
This paper discusses the impact of the nation-building process on cultural and scientific heritage artefacts using the concepts of the “game theory”. It reinforces the fact that destroying the cultural heritage artefacts during wars is not a “zero-sum game” in which the dominant culture wins and the “other” culture loses. It is not even a “lose-lose game” in which both parties lose. Rather, humanity loses part of its whole cultural heritage forever
Paleo-Balkan and Slavic Contributions to the Genetic Pool of Moldavians
No full textMoldova has a rich historical and cultural heritage, which may be reflected in the current genetic makeup of its population.
To date, no comprehensive studies exist about the population genetic structure of modern Moldavians. To bridge this gap
with respect to paternal lineages, we analyzed 37 binary and 17 multiallelic (STRs) polymorphisms on the non-recombining
portion of the Y chromosome in 125 Moldavian males. In addition, 53 Ukrainians from eastern Moldova and 54 Romanians
from the neighboring eastern Romania were typed using the same set of markers. In Moldavians, 19 Y chromosome
haplogroups were identified, the most common being I-M423 (20.8%), R-M17* (17.6%), R-M458 (12.8%), E-v13 (8.8%), RM269*
and R-M412* (both 7.2%). In Romanians, 14 haplogroups were found including I-M423 (40.7%), R-M17* (16.7%), RM405
(7.4%), E-v13 and R-M412* (both 5.6%). In Ukrainians, 13 haplogroups were identified including R-M17 (34.0%), I-M423
(20.8%), R-M269* (9.4%), N-M178, R-M458 and R-M73 (each 5.7%). Our results show that a significant majority of the
Moldavian paternal gene pool belongs to eastern/central European and Balkan/eastern Mediterranean Y lineages.
Phylogenetic and AMOVA analyses based on Y-STR loci also revealed that Moldavians are close to both eastern/central
European and Balkan-Carpathian populations. The data correlate well with historical accounts and geographical location of
the region and thus allow to hypothesize that extant Moldavian paternal genetic lineages arose from extensive recent
admixture between genetically autochthonous populations of the Balkan-Carpathian zone and neighboring Slavic group
Cooperation in the Preservation and Management of Scientific and Cultural Information among Balkan Countries
No full textContributions of the Balkan countries to the world of
science are limited. Based on the total number of publications listed in citation indexes, Turkey and Greece, each with more than 100,000 publications to their credit, ranks 21st and 22nd, respectively, in the world. Other Balkan countries have fewer publications (Bulgaria: 53,795 publications; Romania: 53,269; and “Yugoslavia”: 49,018).3
The newly established states (after Yugoslavia’s split) published even fewer papers (Slovenia: 25,033; Croatia:
24,116; Serbia: 9,910; Macedonia: 2,272; and Bosnia &
Herzegovina: 1,124). Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo
follow these countries with 780, 317 and 51 papers, respectively
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