SubsidieMeestersScreening Souls, Building Nations. Macedonia(s) as a Laboratory for Balkan-wide Authoritatianism
The project investigates the Macedonian Question's role in shaping authoritarian state policies in the Balkans, analyzing historical practices of control and their impact on national identity and governance.
Projectdetails
Introduction
The project aims to investigate a little-explored and usually neglected aspect of the Macedonian Question throughout the late nineteenth and most of the twentieth century: namely, the function of the Macedonian Question as a catalyst and a testing ground for the emergence, development, and consolidation of authoritarian state policies on a nation-wide scale in all the Balkan nation-states involved.
Objectives
In other words, how the tools used by the rival nation states to extract national loyalty in late Ottoman Macedonia, where nation had been widely conceived first and foremost as a political party, were subsequently transformed into a far broader method of social and political control.
Research Focus
MACAUTH will examine the transfer of particular administrative practices of surveillance, control, and political indoctrination, as well as state-sponsored violence and its ideological justification in the name of national expediency. This will be analyzed from the initial field of their application in Ottoman and post-Ottoman Macedonia to the mainstream political and social life of:
- Greece
- Bulgaria
- Serbia/Yugoslavia
Additionally, the impact of the same heritage in:
- Romania
- Albania
- The Ottoman Empire and its successor nation state, the Turkish Republic
will also be assessed.
Research Team
The research team consists of historians from all five Balkan countries which have been historically involved in the Macedonian conflict:
- Greece
- North Macedonia
- Bulgaria
- Serbia
- Romania
It also includes experts on Albania and the Ottoman Empire. The team is composed of:
- The Principal Investigator (PI)
- Nine post-doctoral fellows and senior researchers
- Two research assistants
- Two PhD candidates with their supervisors
Expected Outcomes
They will produce:
- A main monograph
- At least a thematic collective volume
- 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals
- Two Ph.D. dissertations
- Three workshops
- An international conference
- A journalists’ conference for the dissemination of the project’s output
- A website
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 1.467.800 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 1.467.800 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-3-2023 |
| Einddatum | 29-2-2028 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2023 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNASpenvoerder
- INSTITUTE OF NATIONAL HISTORY - SKOPJE
- NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH
Land(en)
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