Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices: Performing Europe in the Western Balkans

ISBN-13: 9781032009711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 160 str.

Vjosa Musliu

Opis

This book provides a critical understanding of Europeanization and statebuilding in the Western Balkans, using the notion of everyday practices.

Spis treści

1. Europeanization as statebuilding, statebuilding as Europeanization: Everyday performative acts in the Western Balkans  2. Kosovo: A EUropean state is born  3. Fantasies of Islam and EUrope: The case of public intellectuals in Kosovo  4. Performing Europe through rainbow flags: Of LGBT politics in Pristina  5. Celebrating and fantasizing EUrope in Sarajevo  6. "Tirana will not be Calcutta": European activities and aesthetics in Tirana  7. If only statues could talk!: The making of European Macedonia through Skopje  8. From Western Balkans to the world: Unravelling EUrope and Europeanization

O autorze

Vjosa Musliu is Assistant Professor in the Political Science department at the Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium.