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Author:   Dimitrios Theodossopoulos ,  Dimitrios Theodosspoulos
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9780415564267

ISBN 10:   0415564263
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   29 September 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The ‘Turks’ in the imagination of the Greeks Dimitrios Theodossopoulos 2. How Greeks think: about Turks, for example Vassos Argyrou 3. Tourkokratia: history and the image of Turks in Greek literature Iraklis Millas 4. Knowledge of diversity: towards a more differentiated set of ‘Greek’ perceptions of ‘Turks’ Renée Hirschon 5. Beyond the Greek and Turkish dichotomy: the Rum-Polites of Istanbul and Athens Ilay Romain Örs 6. Constructing 'the Turk' as an enemy: the complexity of stereotypes in children’s everyday worlds Spyros Spyrou 7. Guarding each others’ dead, mourning one’s own: the problem of missing persons and missing pasts in Cyprus Paul Sant Cassia 8. Writing about Turks and powerful others: journalistic heteroglossia in Western Thrace Fotini Tsibiridou 9. Ethnic Turks and ‘Muslims’, and the performance of multiculturalism: the case of the Dromeno in Thrace Vassiliki Yiakoumaki 10. Phantom menace: what junior Greek army officers have to say about Turks and Turkey Elisabeth Kirtsoglou 11. Bicommunal initiatives and their contribution to improved relations between Turkish and Greek Cypriots Peter Loizos 12. Politics of friendship, worldviews of mistrust: the Greek-Turkish rapprochement in local conversation Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

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Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Bristol. He is author of Troubles with turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment in a Greek Island (2003, Berghahn Books) and Mythical Lands, Legal Boundaries: Land, Law and Environment (2000, Pluto Press). He is teaching courses on ethnic identity and nationalism at the undergraduate and MA level, and he is the supervisor of an active team of research students working on identity issues. His most recent research is concerned with Greco-Turkish relations and the anthropology of conflict and nationalism in the Balkans. Theodossopoulos has recently edited two journal special issues [History & Anthropology 15(1), and Journal of Mediterranean Studies 14(1)] focusing on the work of ethnic stereotypes in Southeast Europe.

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