The Romance-Speaking Balkans. Language and the Politics of Identity

The edited volume “Language and the Politics of Identity. The Romance-Speaking Balkans” is the result of the efforts of the Balkan History Association in Bucharest and aims to contribute to a better understanding of the issues related to the languages of the various Romance-speaking communities on the Balkan peninsula. The relationship between language and identity politics is explored by the authors in a number of countries in Southeastern Europe (including Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Serbia, as well as Moldova and Hungary) and in various Romance-speaking communities: Vlachs, Aromanians, Bayash, Sephardic Jews, Istro-Romanians, in a strongly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing history, sociolinguistics, anthropology and even psychology. The sources used to examine this relationship range from oral history (collected through ethnographic fieldwork) to online Facebook pages, from literary sources to official language policies.