{"title":"A Contribution to the Sudies of the History, Languages and Cultures in Southeast Europe","authors":"T. Ilieva, Galina Galabova","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.20","url":null,"abstract":"The review analytically presents the volume entitled \"Southeast Europe through the Centuries: Social History, Contacts of Languages and Cultures\". It contains 25 articles grouped in three sections: “Trade in Southeast Europe,” “Sources, History, New Interpretations,” “Linguistic and Literary Contacts”. The diverse topics of the articles outline both diachronically and mosaically the picture of the European south-east. The century-long culture of the region is studied from various research perspectives in order to outline the complicated and multi-layered essence of this phenomenon of the Balkans and its dynamics together with the intertwined divergent relations that modeled this civilizational continuum in the past and that unite it today.","PeriodicalId":345221,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOURCES OF MOBILISATION","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131126472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading Practices and Reading Norms: are Mobilizations Possible?","authors":"Aleksander Kiossev","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.2","url":null,"abstract":"The paper explores what individual readers mean by \"to read enough\" and \"to read properly\", i.e. the norm that governs reading practices. The hypothesis is that in recent decades, the normative ideas have been extremely diverse, they detached themselves to a certain extend from the reading practices and spread in different directions. This dispersal, the hypothesis states, is also associated with a reduction of the cultural imperative to read. The question is whether mobilizations are thinkable – i.e. whether it is possible to encourage the heterogeneous readers and reading communities to follow a more coherent reading norm as well as what the content of this norm could be.","PeriodicalId":345221,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOURCES OF MOBILISATION","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129558001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}