SudosteuropaPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2017-0025
Oskar Roginer
{"title":"A Concise History of Bosnia","authors":"Oskar Roginer","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67297186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SudosteuropaPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2017-0029
Wim van Meurs
{"title":"Fragile Loyalität zur Republik Moldau. Sowjetnostalgie und ‘Heimatlosigkeit’ unter den russischen und ukrainischen Minderheiten","authors":"Wim van Meurs","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67297329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SudosteuropaPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2017-0003
M. Potter
{"title":"Europeanization and minority policies in post-conflict Kosovo. Genuine inclusion or window dressing?","authors":"M. Potter","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines the position of minorities in Kosovo in the light of Kosovo’s potential candidacy as a member state of the European Union (EU). The paper contends that although the international community has constructed a comprehensive suite of protections and guarantees for minorities, nation-building by internal actors in Kosovo has followed an exclusively ethnocentric dominant narrative, running counter to the state-building project, which promotes a multiethnic Kosovo. The paper considers this dichotomy in the context of Kosovo’s Europeanization. It is concluded that the conditionality principle is not sufficiently defined or measurable in order to set criteria relating to the inclusion or exclusion of minorities in Kosovo to significantly influence decisions on EU membership.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67296640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SudosteuropaPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2017-0039
Lorik Pustina
{"title":"Civic and Uncivic Values in Kosovo. History, Politics and Value Transformation","authors":"Lorik Pustina","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0039","url":null,"abstract":"of research. At the same time, a critical approach to statehood, democratic institutions, and the term ‘justice’, which isn’t discussed at all, would have contributed to a bett er-grounded analysis of gender relations and how they are embedded in power relations. In sum, through its (without exception) well-researched articles, the book occupies a fruitful ground and opens up the chance for further research and discussion: e.g., on theoretical questions, the dominance of human rights as the political grounds for progressive policies in postsocialist countries, or the role of supranational institutions and international forces in postconfl ict societies.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0039","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67297049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SudosteuropaPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2017-0028
Delila Bikic
{"title":"Minorities under Attack. Othering and Right-Wing Extremism in Southeast European Societies","authors":"Delila Bikic","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67297272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SudosteuropaPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2017-0010
P. Kreuter
{"title":"Anthems and the making of nation states. Identity and nationalism in the Balkans","authors":"P. Kreuter","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67296835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SudosteuropaPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2017-0040
W. van Meurs
{"title":"Entangled Histories of the Balkans. Volume Three. Shared Pasts, Disputed Legacies","authors":"W. van Meurs","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67297070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SudosteuropaPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2016-0040
Orli Fridman, K. Rácz
{"title":"Memories and Narratives of the 1999 NATO Bombing in Serbia","authors":"Orli Fridman, K. Rácz","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2016-0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2016-0040","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses how NATO’s bombing of Serbia has been officially commemorated in that country. Initially, it provides an overview of the commemorations performed between 2000 and 2013, covering both the commemorative practices and policies of leading Serbian politicians and alternative voices. The focus then turns to the fifteenth anniversary of the bombing in 2014. Just as in previous commemorations, there was no central ceremony, but, rather, a series of commemorative events held all over the country. The controversies that these aroused are then discussed, in particular those surrounding the commemoration of Radio Television Serbia’s employees and the spontaneous commemorative acts that took place in Serbian schools. Marija Mandić is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, and a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018) at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin. ‘– How did the bombing affect you? – Well, after it, and particularly after I experienced a three-ton bomb dropped on Straževica Hill in Belgrade, when I thought I was going to die, I decided to marry my long-term boyfriend.’ (From my conversation with Eve Ann Prentice, war correspondent for The Times) Theoretical Framework: the Politics of Memory, Discourse, and Media The connection between social groups and collective memory has been the starting point for memory research in the modern humanities ever since Maurice Halbwachs argued that every memory is carried by a specific social group, limited in space and time.1 The politics of memory, however, is concerned with 1 Maurice Halbwachs, La mémoire collective. Ouvrage posthume publié par Mme Jeanne Alexandre née Halbwachs, Paris 1950 [1925]; Alon Confino, Collective Memory and Cultural History. Problems of Method, The American Historical Review 102, no. 5 (1997), 1386-1403, 1392. Südosteuropa 64 (2016), no. 4, pp. 460-481 MEMORIES AND NARRATIVES OF THE 1999 NATO BOMBING 461 Official Commemoration of the NATO Bombing the role politics has in shaping collective memory. It is reflected in the ways historical events are represented by politicians, talked about in governmentcontrolled media, or transmitted through the school system.2 The present article focuses specifically on commemoration as a form of remembrance. According to Assmann, cultural memory is memory which has periodically stabilized with the help of anniversaries and which can thus extend over a very long period. Commemoration is also an opportunity for collective re-staging: communities of memory make use of commemorations to represent themselves in the way they would like to see themselves—in the way they aspire to be.3 Paul Connerton stresses the interrelationship: ‘If there is such a thing as social memory, I shall argue, we are likely to find it in commemorative ceremonies; but commemorative ceremonies prove to be commemorative only in so far as they are performative; ","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2016-0040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67295848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SudosteuropaPub Date : 2016-03-01DOI: 10.1515/SOEU-2016-0005
Domna Michail, Anastasia Christou
{"title":"East European Migrant Women in Greece. Intergenerational Cultural Knowledge Transfer and Adaptation in a Context of Crisis","authors":"Domna Michail, Anastasia Christou","doi":"10.1515/SOEU-2016-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/SOEU-2016-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper draws on a larger oral history project entitled ‘Gendered Histories of Resilience and Resistance: East European Women’s Narratives of Mobility and Survival’, a narrative ethnography of Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Polish immigrant women living in Greece. The paper explores intergenerational cultural knowledge transfer and adaptation in a context of crisis with an analysis contextualised within the current crisis in Greece. We consider here the degree of uncertainty and the emotional challenges and constraints, but consider also the creativity and agency that participants display. Following on from that we aim to unravel the impact of ‘family and cultural values’ on migrants’ everyday lives in the diaspora.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/SOEU-2016-0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67294614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SudosteuropaPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2016-0007
J. Kilian
{"title":"The Greek ‘Forced Loan’ during the Second World War. Demand for Reparations or Restitution?","authors":"J. Kilian","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2016-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2016-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the wake of the discussions in the European Union about how to cope with Greek indebtedness, Greece has insisted on German repayment of the ‘Forced Loan’ (Zwangsanleihe) transacted during the Second World War. As yet, the legal and economic status of this financial transaction has not been clearly determined. Clarification in this regard would represent an important prerequisite for assessing the lawfulness of Greek claims. Instead, the lack of definition of the ‘Forced Loan’ has led to fierce arguments in the media; even in academic discourse, interpretation of the historical documents has been characterised by emotional opinions and rhetorical attacks. The author contributes to the discussion by offering in-depth insights into the historical context by considering sources that until now have received little to no attention.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2016-0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67294947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}