Balkan Life Courses

Author : Klaus Roth,Milena Benovska
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643910264

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Balkan Life Courses. Part 1 by Klaus Roth,Milena Benovska Pdf

The historical upheavals in Southeast Europe since the early 20th century brought about deep transformations of people's everyday lives and their life courses. The concept of ‘life course’ enables the understanding of human lives within their socio-cultural and political contexts, stressing agency and people’s everyday experience. Balkan contexts invite for analyses that bridge political and social changes and their influence on individual life courses. The papers discuss problems such as family life and parenthood, ages and ageing, life-cycle rituals and the artistic expressions devoted to them. The authors present manifestations of the social differentiation and cultural multiplicity under post-socialist or post-colonial conditions – from developing contemporary global life styles among the emerging urban middle class to the ghettoization of some social or age groups. This volume focusses on developing family cultures, on experiencing socialization and age, on ‘old’ and ‘new’ life cycle rituals and their artistic representations in contemporary Southeast Europe.

Author : Klaus Roth, Milena Benovska (Eds.)
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 9783643910936

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Balkan Life Courses by Klaus Roth, Milena Benovska (Eds.) Pdf

The historical upheavals in Southeast Europe since the early 20th century brought about deep transformations of people’s life courses. The concept of 'life course' enables the understanding of human lives within their socio-cultural and political contexts, stressing people’s everyday experiences and agency. The papers in this volume discuss problems such as the impact of migration and mobility on families, such as economic migration transforming traditional structures into individualistic strategies. Other papers give examples of ruptures of life worlds caused by the impact of dramatic historical events. Demonstrating the agency of actors instead of presenting them as passive victims, some authors present approaches that are innovative for the region. Apart from various forms of migration and their impact on life courses, the volume also includes contributions on the role of religion and social memory in the family.

Author : Klaus Roth,Milena Benovska-Săbkova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1074917134

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Balkan Life Courses by Klaus Roth,Milena Benovska-Săbkova Pdf

Author : David W. Montgomery
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253038197

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Everyday Life in the Balkans by David W. Montgomery Pdf

Everyday Life in the Balkans gathers the work of leading scholars across disciplines to provide a broad overview of the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey. This region has long been characterized as a place of instability and political turmoil, from World War I, through the Yugoslav Wars, and even today as debate continues over issues such as the influx of refugees or the expansion of the European Union. However, the work gathered here moves beyond the images of war and post-socialist stagnation which dominate Western media coverage of the region to instead focus on the lived experiences of the people in these countries. Contributors consider a wide range of issues including family dynamics, gay rights, war memory, religion, cinema, fashion, and politics. Using clear language and engaging examples, Everyday Life in the Balkans provides the background context necessary for an enlightened conversation about the policies, economics, and culture of the region.

Author : Ema Miljkovic
Publisher : Livre de Lyon
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9782490773459

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The Balkans Everyday Life and Culture by Ema Miljkovic Pdf

In the series of the monographs under the title “The Balkans” (publisher Livre de Lyon, Lyon, France), one volume has been dedicated to the everyday life and culture. This volume consists of four chapters examining the various phenomena in everyday life in the Balkans during the Ottoman era or phenomena still existing in the modern Balkan societies, as a result of the Oriental - Ottoman heritage in this region. This book presents one big step forward in research of the everyday life in the Ottoman Empire and especially the Balkans, since this is still one of the less elaborated and at the same time very important topics of the Balkan and Ottoman history, as well.

Author : Vassilis Nitsiakos,Ioannis Manos,Georgios Agelopoulos,Aliki Angelidou,Vassilis Dalkavoukis
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643904300

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Balkan Border Crossings by Vassilis Nitsiakos,Ioannis Manos,Georgios Agelopoulos,Aliki Angelidou,Vassilis Dalkavoukis Pdf

This book is the third publication of the Konitsa Summer School in Anthropology, Ethnography, and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans, containing the proceedings of the years 2009 and 2010. It includes papers written by members of the teaching staff, papers delivered as lectures or especially prepared for the book, papers written by students based principally on their fieldwork exercises in Greece and Albania, presentations of ongoing PhD theses, and, finally, the syllabi of the subjects of instruction. Contents include: Varieties of Capitalism and Varieties of Economic Anthropology * Towards the Road: Urban Spacialities of Political Transition in Gjirokaster * Border Narratives: Testimonies of Albanian Immigrants in Greece * The Utopia of Dialogue in Intercultural Encounters * A Glocal Testament: The Case of the Rizarios Foundation * When Boundaries Define Memory * Dreaming the Privatized Skopje * Methodological Insights in Dance Anthropology: Embodying Indentities in Dance Celebrations in the Context of Metamorphosis of Sotiros in Sotira, South Albania * The Cambas Estate: The Polyphony of a "Vital" Space * The "Mykonos" of Albania: Touristic Development in the City of Saranda * How Many Meters Does It Take to Change a Country? Identity, Borders and Migration in a Greek Minority Village of Albania (Series: Balkan Border Crossings - Vol. 3)

Author : Maria N. Todorova
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155053863

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Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern by Maria N. Todorova Pdf

This study, which is an updated, extended, and revised version of the out-of-print 1993 edition, reassesses the traditional stereotype of the place of the Balkans in the model of the European family in the nineteenth century on the basis of new source material and by synthesizing existing research. The work first analyzes family structure and demographic variables as they appear in population registers and other sources, and the impact of these findings on theoretical syntheses of the European family pattern. On most features, such as population structure, marriage and nuptiality, birth and fertility, death and mortality rates, family and household size and structure, as well as inheritance patterns, the Balkans show an enormous deal of internal variety. This variability is put in a comparative European context by matching the quantifiable results with comparable figures and patterns in other parts of Europe. The second section of the book is a contribution to the long-standing debate over the zadruga, the complex, collective, joint or extended family in the Balkans. Finally, the book considers ideology and mythology and the ways it has adversely affected scholarship on the family, and broadly on population history.

Author : Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015021956753

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Balkan Home-life by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett Pdf

Author : Bato Tomasevic,Nebojša Bato Tomašević
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1850659133

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Life and Death in the Balkans by Bato Tomasevic,Nebojša Bato Tomašević Pdf

This compellingly written autobiography covers the past century and more in the life of Bato Tomasevic's Montenegrin family in the harsh and ever-turbulent mountains of southern Yugoslavia. The narrative begins some fifty years before the Balkan wars (1912-1913) and recounts the harrowing experiences of the Tomasevic clan in the twentieth century's two World Wars. The author conveys vividly the hardships of life in under Italian and German occupation: the daily executions, the heroism of underground workers and the effects of occupation on ordinary people. Bato Tomasevic was a boy soldier with the Partisans and experienced the horrors of warfare against the Chetniks, cheating death in an ambush in Eastern Bosnia.Just as vivid are his accounts of, inter alia, post-war Yugoslavia, his narrow escape in the Munich air disaster, life in Belgrade in the hopeful sixties and seventies, the break-up of the Federation after Tito's death, and the efforts of extreme nationalists to create a Greater Serbia and a Greater Croatia through armed might and ethnic cleansing. The family saga ends with Tomasevic's experience of the NATO bombing of Serbia in March 1999 and the downfall and imprisonment of President Milosevic. Tomasevic's story is at once fascinating, heroic, tragic, sometimes even funny, but unquestionably moving, such as his description of he and his mother finding his dead brother's skull or of witnessing a suicide by a young German prisoner of war of roughly the same age as him. It is a story as remembered by a young boy, whose family, like his country, was drawn into a violent and brutal conflict that it could not escape.

Author : Irwin T. Sanders
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813194943

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Balkan Village by Irwin T. Sanders Pdf

In the Balkans today Communism, with its dynamic drive for power and sense of mission, is charging against the Balkan peasant mass, a patient, religious, tradition-bound people tilling their beloved soil. Dragalevtsy, the Balkan village described by Mr. Sanders, brings this struggle into focus. The book details the way of life of a tranquil rural folk clinging to a Bulgarian mountainside, in the shadow of a twelfth- century monastery—their history, economic system, marriage customs, family life, and reluctant yielding to the ways of the western world. On September 6, 1944, Dragalevtsy peasants awoke to find posters in the streets proclaiming the advent of Communism. The concluding chapters of the book give a vital, personalized insight into the economic and social forces now at work in the Balkans.

Author : Traian Stoianovich
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0765638517

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Balkan Worlds by Traian Stoianovich Pdf

Encompassing the period from the Neolithic era to the present, this book studies the peoples, societies, and cultures of the area situated between the Adriatic Sea in the west and the Black Sea in the east, between the Alpine region and Danube basin in the north and the Aegean Sea in the south. This is not a conventional history of the Balkans; rather, drawing upon archaeology, anthropology, economics, psychology, and linguistics as well as history, the author has attempted a total history that integrates many areas of the Balkan experience.

Author : M. Hadji-Janev,M. Jankuloska
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781643682334

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Gender Mainstreaming in Counter-terrorism Efforts in the Western Balkans by M. Hadji-Janev,M. Jankuloska Pdf

Amplified by a volatile security environment, technology and globalization, terrorism and violent extremism have become a genuine threat on a global level, and the ability of terrorist groups to capitalize on local issues such as poverty and inequality have helped to fuel the process of radicalization and recruitment. The region of the Western Balkans is not immune to these trends, and the gender component has been recognized as an important aspect in efforts to counter and prevent such practices. This book presents edited contributions delivered at the NATO Advanced Training Course (ATC) “Gender Mainstreaming in Counter-terrorism Efforts in Western Balkans” held from 16 to 21 May 2021. The event was designed to explore gender perspectives in counter-terrorism efforts in the Western Balkans and in the wider security-sector, and to analyze drivers to radicalization through the lens of gender. This ATC brought together more than 50 military and civilian participants from 7 countries in the Western Balkans and south-eastern Europe and 35 expert lecturers. Topics include the legal and political framework of gender mainstreaming; the role of technology; the drivers, motivations and roles of women in radicalization and extremist groups; counter-terrorism and gender; gender-sensitive approaches to counter terrorism; gendered perspectives from the frontline; the prospects for women’s leadership roles in community-based approaches; and challenges to the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in the Western Balkans. Highlighting critical components and providing a unique insight which contributes to the academic debate on gender mainstreaming in P/CVE and CT efforts, the book will be of interest to all those involved in countering the spread of terrorism worldwide.

Author : Traian Stoianovich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317476153

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Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe by Traian Stoianovich Pdf

Encompassing the period from the Neolithic era to the troubled present, this book studies the peoples, societies and cultures of the area situated between the Adriatic Sea in the west and the Black Sea in the east, between the Alpine region and Danube basin in the north and the Aegean Sea in the south. This is not a conventional history of the Balkans. Drawing upon archaeology, anthropology, economics, psychology and linguistics as well as history, the author has attempted a "total history" that integrates as many as possible of the avenues and categories of the Balkan experience.

Author : Katrin Boeckh,Sabine Rutar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319446424

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The Balkan Wars from Contemporary Perception to Historic Memory by Katrin Boeckh,Sabine Rutar Pdf

This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states. This volume shows how these “short” wars profoundly changed the sociopolitical situation in the Balkans, with consequences that are still felt today. More than one hundred years later, the successors of the belligerent states in Southeastern Europe memorialize the wars as heroic highlights of their respective pasts. Furthermore, the metaphor that the Balkans were Europe’s “powder keg”, perpetuated at the beginning of the twentieth century in the face of these wars, was reactivated in both the West and the East up through the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. The authors entangle the hitherto exclusive national master narratives and analyse them cogently and trenchantly for an international readership. They make an indispensable contribution to the proper integration of the Balkan Wars into the European historical memory of twentieth-century warfare.

Author : G. Parissakis,Nikolaos Katsaros
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401101073

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Science Policy and Research Management in the Balkan Countries by G. Parissakis,Nikolaos Katsaros Pdf

During the last years, important geopolitical changes took place in the broader area of Eastern Europe, having as a consequence, among others, the change of policy and strategy in many fields such as social, economical, commercial, scientific e.t.c. It was a contemporary demand to have a meeting of scientists from various countries and especially from countries of the Eastern Europe and the Balkan area, where the various problems concerning the scientific, technological and research fields could be studied and discussed. The goals of this meeting would be: mutual information, broadening of cooperation possibilities through common research programs, as well as possible development of a common policy in certain sections of science and technology of mutual interest. The realization of this meeting, which came true with the initiative, the moral of the NATO Scientific Affairs Division gave the and full economical support pursued results included in the present volume. It was my pleasure to act as the Director of the NATO ARW and I am most grateful to the NATO Scientific Affairs Division for the financial support and especially to its Programme Director, Dr. Alain Jubier, whose contribution to every step of the workshop was essential so that this meeting would be effective.