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- Title
The New German-speaking School of Balkankompetenzen: Knowledge production and truth claims in postcolonial post-communist context.
- Authors
Doja, Albert
- Abstract
In this paper, I show how some strands of contemporary Western scholarship in Albanian studies reproduce substantive empirical and methodological flaws and perpetuate imperial attitudes and othering stereotypes. In particular, I level a number of criticisms at what I refer to as the New German-speaking School of Balkankompetenzen that has colonized Albanian and more generally Southeastern European issues. I argue that disregard and patronizing of local scholars, and occasionally over-reliance on essentialized, insufficient or misinterpreted research outcomes, can be shown in the writings of various scholars that are representative of strategic othering, methodological essentialism, dubious deconstructionism and outright misinterpretation of Albanian foundational myths, national history, social structures, and cultural behavior. Arguably, this methodological imperialism reproduces a discourse of Western superiority that serves to legitimate Western political, economic and social control.
- Subjects
GERMAN-speaking students; POSTCOMMUNISM; SCHOLARSHIPS; DECONSTRUCTION; SOCIAL control
- Publication
New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central & East European Politics & International Relations, 2022, Vol 30, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
2336-825X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/2336825X211065569