Ivan Kalmar

Kalmar argues that dismissive attitudes towards ‘Eastern Europeans’ are a form of racism and explores the close relation between racism towards Central Europeans and racism by Central Europeans: a people white but not quite.

WORK 02

Maria Todorova

Todorova describes Balkanism not as a form of Orientalism but as an independent construction having to do with the representation of the Balkans.^[2][3] Her distinction is partially based on the “crucial” formal distinction between European colonialism abroad and subordination within.^[4] In her view, contrary to the Orient which serves as Europe’s polar opposite, Balkan is Europe’s “Other within” in an interstitial position of being neither here nor there