Identifying and explaining common views, ideas and traditions, this volume challenges the concept of Serbian-Albanian hostility by reinvestigating recent and historical events in the region. The contributors put forward critically oriented initiatives and alternatives to shed light on a range of relations and perspectives.<\/p>\n
The central aim of the book is to \u2018figure out\u2019 the problematic relations between Serbs and Albanians \u2013 that is, to comprehend its origins and the actors involved, and to find ways to resolve and deal with this enmity. Treating the hostility as a construct of a long-running discourse about the Serbian or Albanian \u2018Other\u2019, scholars and intellectuals from Serbia, Kosovo and Albania examine the origins, channels, agents and mediums of this discourse from the 18th century to the present. Tracing the roots of the two ethnic groups’ political divisions, contemporary practices and actions allows the contributors to reconsider mutually held negative perceptions and identify elements of a common, shared history. Examples of past and current cooperation are used to offer a critical analysis of all three societies.<\/p>\n
This interdisciplinary publication brings together historiographical, literary, sociological, political, anthropological and philosophical analyses and enquiries and will be of interest to researchers in the fields of sociology, politics, cultural studies, history or anthropology; and to academics working in Slavonic and East European studies.<\/p>\n
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Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n Chapter 1 \u2013 Forging the Enemy: the Transformation of Common Serbian-Albanian Traits into Enmity and Political Hostility<\/p>\n Aleksandar Pavlovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 2 \u2013 Producing Old Serbia: in the Footsteps of Travel Writers, on the Path of Folklore<\/p>\n Sr\u0111an Atanasovski<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 3 \u2013 “Reconquista of Old Serbia”<\/p>\n On the Continuity of Territorial and Demographic Policy in Kosovo<\/p>\n Vladan Jovanovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 4 The Burden of Systemic Legitimization in Socialist Yugoslavia: Discursive Reduction of Kosovo Protests<\/p>\n Marjan Ivkovi\u0107, Tamara Petrovi\u0107 Trifunovi\u0107 and Sr\u0111an Prodanovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 5 Seeing Each Other: Nesting Orientalisms and Internal Balkanism among the Albanians and South Slavs in the Former Yugoslavia<\/p>\n Atdhe Hetemi<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 6 \u2013 Conflicted Narratives: The 1998-1999 Kosovo War in History Textbooks in Kosovo and Serbia<\/p>\n Shk\u00eblzen Gashi<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 7 \u2013 Figure of the Other as an Open Project: Literary Works of Albanian Authors from Albania and Kosovo Translated in Serbia<\/p>\n Sa\u0161a \u0106iri\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 8 \u2013 We, Sons<\/em> of the Nation<\/em>: Intellectuals as Generators of Albanian and Serbian National Ideas and Programs<\/p>\n Rigels Halili<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 9 \u2013 The Symbolism of Impotence: Intellectuals and Serbian-Albanian Relations in the Post-Yugoslav Period<\/p>\n Gazela Pudar Dra\u0161ko<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 10 \u2013 Serbian-Albanian Mixed Marriages: When Patriarchy Breaks Nationalist Barriers<\/p>\n Armanda Hysa<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 11 \u2013 Cultural Heritage in Kosovo:<\/p>\n Strengthening Exclusion through Inclusive Legislation<\/p>\n Jelena Lon\u010dar<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 12 \u2013 “Face to Face:” Serbian-Albanian Cultural Cooperation in the Media<\/p>\n Ana Bire\u0161ev<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 13 \u2013 The Community of the Dispossessed: Women’s Peace Coalition<\/p>\n Adriana Zaharijevi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Editor(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n Aleksandar Pavlovi\u0107<\/strong> is a researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. He obtained his PhD in Southeast European Studies from the University of Nottingham, and got his BA and MA in Comparative literature and literary theory from the University of Belgrade. He published Epika i politika, and co-edited Politics of Enmity: Can Nation Ever be Emancipatory (2018) and a volume on Serbian-Albanian relations in Serbian and Albanian.<\/p>\n Gazela Pudar Dra\u0161ko<\/strong> works as a Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. She was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Southeast European Studies in Graz and the Centre for East European Studies in Warsaw. She writes on the intellectual engagement, movements and gender.<\/p>\n Rigels Halili<\/strong> is an assistant professor at Centre for East European Studies at University of Warsaw. He has studied philology, cultural anthropology and international relations at the University of Warsaw, where he has also earned his PhD. His research interests include orality and literacy, especially in the Balkans, history of modern nationalism, interaction between memory and culture, and normative customary practices in the Balkans and Central Europe. His latest research project was focused on social and cultural memory of communism in Central and South-east Europe. He published a monograph based on his PhD dissertation in 2012 and co-edited four books in Polish, Serbian and Albanian.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Published June 25, 2019 by Routledge<\/p>\n 234 Pages – 4 B\/W Illustrations<\/p>\n <\/p>\n