Albania and Apulia Contribution to European Identity

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dc.contributor.author Onofrio Romano
dc.date 2013-06-15 06:38:04
dc.date.accessioned 2013-07-15T11:22:07Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-11-23T16:08:42Z
dc.date.available 2013-07-15T11:22:07Z
dc.date.available 2015-11-23T16:08:42Z
dc.date.issued 2013-07-15
dc.identifier http://ecs.epoka.edu.al/index.php/ices/ices2009/paper/view/711
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/410
dc.description.abstract The contribution focuses on the identity issue with reference to the European integration process.To this aim, the case of the Southern Adriatic area - covering the Italian South-East and South western Balkans (namely Apulia and Albania) - will be highlighted. This region shows many reasons of interest for the whole process of European integration, as it represents a kind of hinge between Western civilization and the East, Europe and the Mediterranean, North and South of the World. Our thesis is that, despite the different traditions, cultural heritage, histories, political dominion etc., the societies facing on the two sides of the lower Adriatic sea share common core attitudes. They were forged on the basis of a similar existentialframework: the secular (or centuryold?) condition of marginalisation in relation to the hubs of political power. So, the lower Adriatic inhabitants have acquired a particular skill to win the grace of the ruler in office, whoever he was, building, at the same time,a hidden orb in which to preserve their authenticity, their original cultural references.This framework has produced, in the long run, an anti-identitarian people's constitution, i.e. an "anthropology of the absence", consisting of two complementary dimensions: mimicry and the vernacular order. This ensures both the merger of dissimilarities and the preservation of an impregnable singularity. The anthropology ofthe absence still emerges strongly in relation to the new political focus with which this region relates nowadays: the European Union.
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dc.publisher International Conference on European Studies
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dc.source International Conference on European Studies; 2nd International Conference on European Studies
dc.title Albania and Apulia Contribution to European Identity
dc.type Peer-reviewed Paper


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