I was honored to present my paper The Return of the Colonial: Understanding the Role of Eastern Europe in Global Colonization Debates and Decolonial Struggles at the opening event of the Decolonize Hellas project and research platform on 19 May, 2021. In my paper, I introduced my world-sytemic approach to conceptualizing semiperipheral Hungarian and Eastern European colonial histories and decolonialism from a global perspective.
Címke: Balkans
Semiperipheral Empire: Hungarian Balkanism in Global Colonialism
In postcolonial studies, Eastern Europe’s colonial experiences and ambitions have been routinely silenced in the literature’s focus on (post)colonial centres and peripheries. The region remains largely absent from mainstream textbooks, which is indicative not only […]
Plotting the Semiperipheral Empire: Hungarian Balkanism and Global Colonialism in Geographical Knowledge, 1867–1948
43rd Annual Conference on the Political Economy of the World-System Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany Topic: 2. The Balkans’ inter-imperial linkages Eastern Europe is the “black sheep” of postcolonial studies: its colonial experiences have been routinely […]
Plotting the semiperipheral empire: Hungarian imperialist imaginaries of Balkan landscapes, 1867–1948
Eastern Europe is the “black sheep” of postcolonial studies: its colonial experiences have been routinely missed out from the relentless focus on (post)colonial centres and peripheries. To be sure, postcolonial literature extended Orientalism as the […]
Zoltán Ginelli 