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Albania: a denial of the Ottoman past : (School textbooks and politics of memory)
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dc.contributor.author | Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-06T13:30:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-12-06T13:30:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-12-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Kamusella , T D 2016 , ' Albania: a denial of the Ottoman past : (School textbooks and politics of memory) ' , Revista de Etnologie şi Culturologie , vol. 20 , pp. 96-105 . | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2537-6152 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 248129840 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: a0889f4a-fc28-43dc-bc29-831bf219ba71 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-3484-8352/work/42102764 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/9940 | |
dc.description.abstract | In post-communist Albania’s schools, alongside regular textbooks of history for teaching the subject, school atlases of history are also employed as a prescribed or adjunct textbook. In the stories and facts related through texts and maps, the Ottoman past is curiously warped and marginalized. As a result, the average Albanian is left incapable of explaining why Albania is a predominantly Muslim polity, but with a considerable degree of tolerant poly-confessionalism. Furthermore, school history education in Albania propagates the unreflective anti-Ottoman feeling encapsulated by the stereotypes of ‘Turkish yoke’ or ‘the five centuries of Turkish occupation.’ This simplistic anti-Ottomanism of Albanian culture and public discourse is strangely at variance with the Muslim and polyconfessional character of Albania. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Revista de Etnologie şi Culturologie | en |
dc.rights | Copyright 2016 the Authors. This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. | en |
dc.subject | Albania | en |
dc.subject | Ottoman Empire | en |
dc.subject | National master narrative | en |
dc.subject | School history education | en |
dc.subject | School atlases of history | en |
dc.subject | Politics of history | en |
dc.subject | Politics of memory | en |
dc.title | Albania: a denial of the Ottoman past : (School textbooks and politics of memory) | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of History | en |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | http://ethnology.asm.md/archives/ | en |
dc.identifier.url | http://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_MPkqI9kqE1VTRobnM1ZHBHMkE/view | en |
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