{"id":54031,"date":"2026-06-11T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54031"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:19:12","slug":"call-for-book-chapters-alternatives-to-the-nation-state-federalism-autonomy-and-post-imperial-imaginaries-in-the-mediterranean-long-nineteenth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54031","title":{"rendered":"Call for Book Chapters: Alternatives to the Nation-State: Federalism, Autonomy, and Post-Imperial Imaginaries in the Mediterranean Long Nineteenth Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Workshop <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date: September 24, 2026 – September 25, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location: Greece<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subject Fields: Intellectual History, Modern European History \/ Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                                    Call for Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                          Alternatives to the Nation-State:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Federalism, Autonomy, and Post-Imperial Imaginaries in the Mediterranean Long Nineteenth Century<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                              Edited by Erkjad Kajo<\/strong> & Alexandros S. Balatsoukas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The long nineteenth-century Mediterranean has too often been narrated as a periphery where the nation-state arrived belatedly or imperfectly, against the grain of plural, layered, and overlapping forms of political life. This volume reverses that perspective. Rather than treating Mediterranean diversity as a residue awaiting modernization, it argues that the region functioned as a generative laboratory in which the most sophisticated nineteenth-century critiques of, and alternatives to, the nation-state were elaborated. From federalist projects to imperial decentralization schemes, from non-territorial autonomies to constitutional experiments and exile internationalisms, Mediterranean actors developed a shared idiom of post-imperial and trans-confessional political thought that national historiographies have systematically marginalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building on recent scholarship that has rehabilitated empire as a durable form of political organization, recovered internationalism as a constitutive nineteenth-century project, and re-examined late-Ottoman, late-Habsburg, and post-imperial governance, the volume gathers contributions that map the Mediterranean as a connected space of political imagination. It seeks to move beyond the confines of national, institutional, or strictly Western European frames in order to recover the federations debated, the autonomies negotiated, the constitutions drafted, and the political programs circulated across imperial and confessional boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We welcome chapter proposals on themes including, but not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n