Reading Between the Lines: Reflections on Discarded Books and Sociopolitical Transformations in (Post-)Yugoslavia

ISBN-13: 9783838216430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Recenzje

"Dora Komnenovic's book is a convincing academic work, theoretically competent and empirically valid, about one of the most shameful episodes of post-socialist transition, bookicide. It is decisively interdisciplinary in terms of epistemology, theoretical background, and methodological tools and as such presents a comprehensive contribution to fields of transitology, cultural studies of post-socialism, (post-)Yugoslav studies, and ideology criticism. Conceived and accomplished on the productive crossroad of different social sciences and humanities, and combining top-down and bottom-up ways of researching, her book is able to uncover less-known dimensions of the topic and expand existent knowledge about it."-Prof. Dr. Mitja Velikonja, University of Ljubljana

O autorze

Dora Komnenovic obtained her PhD in Social and Cultural Studies at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. She holds a BA in International Relations and Diplomacy (Trieste University, 2010) and an MA in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (Bologna University, 2012). Her research interests revolve around Eastern European history and politics, with a special focus on vanished states such as the former Yugoslavia and the German Democratic Republic. Her recent publications include The Cleansing of Croatian Libraries in the 1990s and Beyond or How (Not) to Discard the Yugoslav Past (in Bevernage, B. and Wouters, N. eds. "The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History after 1945"), London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, and Remembering the 1990s in Croatia: The Potential of Discarded Books on and around Anniversaries (in Newman, J. P. and Apor, B. eds. "Balkan Legacies: The Long Shadow of Conflict and Ideological Experiment in Southeastern Europe"), West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2021.