Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations: Figuring Out the Enemy

ISBN-13: 9781138574830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 234 str.

Aleksandar Pavlovic (University of Belgr;Gazela Pudar Drasko (University of Belg; Pol Rigels Halili (University of Warsaw

Opis

Challenging Serbian-Albanian hostility by reinvestigating recent and historical events and discourses, this volume identifies and elaborates common views, ideas and traditions. Scholars and intellectuals from Serbia, Kosovo and Albania put forward critically oriented initiatives and alternatives to shed light on a range of relations and perspectives. Tracing the roots of the two ethnic groups' political divisions, contemporary practices and actions each chapter reconsiders mutually held negative perceptions and seeks to identify elements of a common, shared past. Examples of past and current cooperation are used to offer a critical analysis of Serbian, Kosovar and Albanian society. This interdisciplinary publication brings together historiographical, literary, sociological, political, anthropological and philosophical analyses and enquiries and will be of interest to in sociology, politics, cultural studies, history or anthropology academics working in Slavonic and East European studies.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 – Forging the Enemy: the Transformation of Common Serbian-Albanian Traits into Enmity and Political Hostility Chapter 2 – Producing Old Serbia: in the Footsteps of Travel Writers, on the Path of Folklore Chapter 3 – "Reconquista of Old Serbia": On the Continuity of Territorial and Demographic Policy in Kosovo Chapter 4 The Burden of Systemic Legitimization in Socialist Yugoslavia: Discursive Reduction of Kosovo Protests Chapter 5 Seeing Each Other: Nesting Orientalisms and Internal Balkanism among the Albanians and South Slavs in the Former Yugoslavia Chapter 6 – Conflicted Narratives: The 1998-1999 Kosovo War in History Textbooks in Kosovo and Serbia Chapter 7 – Figure of the Other as an Open Project: Literary Works of Albanian Authors from Albania and Kosovo Translated in Serbia Chapter 8 – We, Sons of the Nation: Intellectuals as Generators of Albanian and Serbian National Ideas and Programs Chapter 9 – The Symbolism of Impotence: Intellectuals and Serbian-Albanian Relations in the Post-Yugoslav Period Chapter 10 – Serbian-Albanian Mixed Marriages: When Patriarchy Breaks Nationalist Barriers Chapter 11 – Cultural Heritage in Kosovo: Strengthening Exclusion through Inclusive Legislation Chapter 12 – "Face to Face:" Serbian-Albanian Cultural Cooperation in the Media Chapter 13 – The Community of the Dispossessed: Women's Peace Coalition