Knjiga je prva publikacija projekta MACAUTH<\/strong>, koji financira Europsko istra\u017eiva\u010dko vije\u0107e (ERC), a vodi ga glavni istra\u017eiva\u010d projekta dr. sc. Tasos Kostopoulos. Projekt okuplja istra\u017eiva\u010de iz Bugarske, Gr\u010dke, Sjeverne Makedonije, Rumunjske i Srbije<\/strong>. Tijekom gotovo \u010detiri godine istra\u017eiva\u010dki je tim prou\u010davao \u201emakedonsko pitanje\u201c kroz prizmu njegova utjecaja na unutarnji dru\u0161tveno-politi\u010dki \u017eivot balkanskih dr\u017eava, uklju\u010duju\u0107i Osmansko Carstvo i Republiku Tursku. Prou\u010davanje dr\u017eavnog nadzora, provjeravanja identiteta i klasifikacije pojedinaca i skupina stanovni\u0161tva predstavlja jednu od glavnih analiti\u010dkih osi projekta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Knjiga je podijeljena na \u010detiri dijela i sadr\u017ei ukupno 12 poglavlja, koja su zasnovana na istra\u017eivanjima predstavljenima na radionicama odr\u017eanim u Retimnu (2023. godine) i Skoplju (2024. godine).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prvi dio, Monitoring and certifying<\/strong>, istra\u017euje administrativne prakse pra\u0107enja i potvr\u0111ivanja identiteta u Bugarskoj, Gr\u010dkoj i me\u0111uratnoj jugoslavenskoj Makedoniji ili Vardarskoj Makedoniji. Drugi dio, Perception and stereotypes<\/strong>, bavi se utjecajem stereotipa i pogre\u0161nih predod\u017ebi naslije\u0111enih krajem 19. i po\u010detkom 20. stolje\u0107a na dr\u017eavne politike pra\u0107enja gra\u0111ana. Tre\u0107i dio, Apparatuses, central and local<\/strong>, istra\u017euje razli\u010dite aparate dr\u017eavne administracije, na centralnoj i lokalnoj razini, koji su se bavili nadzorom i klasifikacijom aktivnosti i uvjerenja gra\u0111ana kao sastavnim dijelom njihovog doprinosa dr\u017eavnoj sigurnosti i izgradnji nacije. \u010cetvrti dio, Beyond the fatherland: Diaspora screening<\/strong>, istra\u017euje na\u010din na koji su prakse nadzora iz Makedonije i balkanskih nacionalnih dr\u017eava prenesene na njihove postoje\u0107e ili potencijalne dijaspore u prekomorskim zemljama.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Knjiga se mo\u017ee slobodno preuzeti na sljede\u0107oj poveznici:<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/macauth.ims.forth.gr\/publications.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sljede\u0107a publikacija istra\u017eiva\u010dkih aktivnosti projekta MACAUTH planirana je za po\u010detak naredne godine i bit \u0107e objavljena kao specijalni broj u beogradskom \u010dasopisu Tokovi istorije<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Taxonomies of Loyalty: Identity Screening as a Tool for Sociopolitical Control, Nation-Building and Cleansing in the Balkans and Anatolia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Surveillance, monitoring and classification of citizens constitute important areas of inquiry in democratic societies, raising fundamental questions about human rights, political control, citizenship, and democratic governance. With the increasing use of digital technologies and the internet, the capacity of states and political institutions to collect, process, and classify information about individuals has expanded considerably. These developments have intensified debates about privacy, individual rights, state power, and the institutional safeguards necessary to prevent the abuse of surveillance practices and the erosion of democratic principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, state surveillance and the classification of populations are not exclusively contemporary phenomena. They developed alongside the formation and consolidation of modern states. These practices served not only purposes of state security and administrative governance, but were also closely connected to processes of nation-building, the definition of political and national belonging, and the identification and production of loyalty to the state and the nation. The classification of populations could therefore become an important instrument through which states distinguished between those perceived as loyal members of the political community and those regarded as potentially disloyal, suspect, or outside the boundaries of national belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These historical practices of surveillance, screening, and classification in the Balkan states are examined in the book Taxonomies of Loyalty: Identity Screening as a Tool for Sociopolitical Control, Nation-Building and Cleansing in the Balkans and Anatolia<\/strong> edited by Dr. Tasos Kostopoulos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The book is the first publication of the MACAUTH<\/strong> project funded by European Research Council (ERC) led by the project principal investigator dr. Tasos Kostopoulos. The project brings together researchers from Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia<\/strong>. For almost four years, the research team has examined the \u201cMacedonian question\u201d through the lens of its impact on the domestic socio-political life of the Balkan states, including Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The study of state surveillance, identity screening, and classification of individuals and populations constitutes one of the project\u2019s principal analytical axes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The book is divided into four sections and comprises a total of 12 chapters, which are based on research presented at workshops held in Rethymno (2023) and Skopje (2024). The first part, Monitoring and certifying<\/strong> explores the administrative practice of identity monitoring and certification in Bulgaria, Greece and interwar Yugoslav Macedonia. The second part, Perception and stereotypes<\/strong> explores the influence of stereotypes and misconceptions inherited from the end of the 19th<\/sup> and early 20th<\/sup> centuries on state policies of monitoring citizens. The third part, Apparatuses, central and local<\/strong> explores several apparatuses of the state administration at both the central and local level of surveillance and classification of citizens\u2019 activities and beliefs as integral part of their contribution to state security and nation-building. The fourth part, Beyond the fatherland: Diaspora screening<\/strong> explores how the surveillance practices were exported from Macedonia and Balkan nation-states to the latter\u2019s actual or prospective diasporas overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The book can be downloaded on the following link https:\/\/macauth.ims.forth.gr\/publications.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The next publication of the MACAUTH research activities is planned for beginning of the next year in the journal Tokovi istorije<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Obavijest o knjizi objavljena je i na portalu Historiografija.ba<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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