Romania - layers of collective identity in the 19th and the 20th centuries: An outline until the interwar period
Romania - layers of collective identity in the 19th and the 20th centuries: An outline until the interwar period
Author(s): Radu BaltasiuSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Eikon
Summary/Abstract: There is no simple answer to the question of the development of the Romanian modernity. The paradigm of multiple modernities is a good starting point in understanding the issue since it acknowledges the right of the East to appropriate modernity and the global system on their own (Eisenstadt, Transformation and Transposition of the Thematic Multiple Modernities in the Era of Globalization, 2005, 43), i.e. considering its own development as normal. But, there is more at stake than multiple realities. The 19h century is for Romania the....
Journal: Sociologie Românească
- Issue Year: 7/2009
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 138-154
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English