Citizens Of An Empty Nation

Author : Azra Hromadžic,Azra Hromadžić
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812291223

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Citizens of an Empty Nation by Azra Hromadžic,Azra Hromadžić Pdf

In the wake of devastating conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the polarizing effects of everyday ethnic divisions, combined with hardened allegiances to ethnic nationalism and the rigid arrangements imposed in international peace-building agreements, have produced what Azra Hromadžić calls an "empty nation." Hromadžić explores the void created by unresolved tensions between mandated reunification initiatives and the segregation institutionalized by power-sharing democracy, and how these conditions are experienced by youths who have come of age in postconflict Bosnia-Herzegovina. Building on long-term ethnographic research at the first integrated school of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Citizens of an Empty Nation offers a ground-level view of how the processes of reunification play out at the Mostar Gymnasium. Hromadžić details the local effects of the tensions and contradictions inherent in the processes of postwar state-making, shedding light on the larger projects of humanitarian intervention, social cohesion, cross-ethnic negotiations, and citizenship. In this careful ethnography, the Mostar Gymnasium becomes a powerful symbol for the state's simultaneous segregation and integration as the school's shared halls, bathrooms, and computer labs foster dynamic spaces for a rich cross-ethnic citizenship—or else remain empty.

Author : Renata Summa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030558178

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Everyday Boundaries, Borders and Post Conflict Societies by Renata Summa Pdf

This book provides an in-depth analysis of border and boundary enactments in post-war and “deeply divided” societies. By exploring everyday places in post-conflict societies, it critically examines official narratives of how ethno-national divisions arise and are sustained. It challenges traditional accounts regarding the role that international intervention has in producing and/or weakening boundaries in such societies, while questioning clear-cut distinctions between the local and the international.

Author : Devin P. Singh,Randal Joy Thompson,Kathleen A. Curran
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839095269

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Reimagining Leadership on the Commons by Devin P. Singh,Randal Joy Thompson,Kathleen A. Curran Pdf

Reimagining Leadership on the Commons examines leadership approaches derived from an, open, whole systems perspective and a more collaborative paradigm that recognizes that rather than being individualist self-maximizers, people prefer to work together to share benefits and found a society based on equality and justice.

Author : National Education Association of the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Education
ISBN : UGA:32108026432768

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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting - National Education Association of the United States by National Education Association of the United States Pdf

Author : Susan Forde
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319926605

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Movement as Conflict Transformation by Susan Forde Pdf

This book presents narratives of the social use of space in the divided city of Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Through the narratives of movement in the city, the work demonstrates how residents engage informally with conflict transformation through new movement and use of spaces. This book will appeal across the social sciences, and in particular to students, academics, and researchers in the fields of peace and conflict studies, political sociology, and human geography.

Author : David W. Montgomery
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Ivan Gusic
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030280918

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Contesting Peace in the Postwar City by Ivan Gusic Pdf

“Contesting Peace in the Postwar City is key reading for urban and peace and conflict scholars. In this impressive and meticulously researched book, Gusic reflects on the ways in which divisions are routinised in the everyday landscape of divided cities and skilfully investigates how change and continuity are governed in postwar urban spaces. The book provides rich empirical material from the cities of Mostar, Mitrovica and Belfast, drawing on nuanced fieldwork insights.” —Stefanie Kappler, Durham University, UK “Ivan Gusic sets out a powerful, theoretically critical and empirically rich account of the trajectories of cities after war. The strength of the work is that it brings an understanding of the urban condition into relation with ethno-national conflict and the survival of violence. Gusic unsettles dominant narratives in peace studies by offering a grounded evaluation of three cities coming out of violence and points to the importance of place in peacebuilding processes.” —Brendan Murtagh, Queen’s University Belfast, UK “Detailed case studies of Belfast, Mitrovica and Mostar show how cities are often engines of what Ivan Gusic calls ‘war in peace’. This on-trend study combines the latest research from critical urban studies with peace and conflict studies to produce a very accessible and internationally relevant book. It is highly recommended.” —Roger Mac Ginty, Durham University, UK This book explores why the postwar city reinforces rather than transcends its continuities of war in peace. It theorises war-to-peace transitions as conflicts over how to socio-politically order society and then analyses different urban conflicts over peace(s) in postwar Belfast (Northern Ireland), Mitrovica (Kosovo) and Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina). Focusing on themes such as educational segregation, clientelism, fear, paramilitaries, and infrastructure, it shows how conflict lines from war are perpetuated in and by the postwar city. Yet it also discovers instances where antagonisms are bridged by utilising the postwar city’s transcending potential. While written in the nexus between peace research and urban studies, this book also speaks to political geography, international relations, anthropology, and planning.

Author : Jody Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000378856

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Memory Politics and Populism in Southeastern Europe by Jody Jensen Pdf

This book explores the politics of memory in Southeastern Europe in the context of rising populisms and their hegemonic grip on official memory and politics. It speaks to the increased political, media and academic attention paid to the rise of discontent, frustration and cultural resistance from below across the European continent and the world. In order to demonstrate the complexities of these processes, the volume transcends disciplinary boundaries to explore memory politics, examining the interconnections between memory and populism. It shows how memory politics has become one of the most important fields of symbolic struggle in the contemporary process of "meaning-making," providing space for actors, movements and other mnemonic entrepreneurs who challenge and point to incoherencies in the official narratives of memory and forgetting. Charting the contemporary rise of populist movements, the volume will be of particular interest to regional specialists in Southeastern Europe, Balkan and postcommunist studies, as well as researchers, activists, policy-makers and politicians at the national and EU levels and academics in the fields of political science, sociology, history, cultural heritage and management, conflict and peace studies.

Author : Kristin Doughty
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812247831

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Remediation in Rwanda by Kristin Doughty Pdf

This book examines how Rwandans navigated their encounters with grassroots courts purportedly designed to rebuild the social fabric in the wake of the 1994 genocide.--From the publisher.

Author : Maria-Adriana Deiana
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137593788

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Gender and Citizenship by Maria-Adriana Deiana Pdf

This book examines the remaking of women’s citizenship in the aftermath of conflict and international intervention. It develops a feminist critique of consociationalism as the dominant model of post-conflict governance by tracking the gendered implications of the Dayton Peace Agreement. It illustrates how the legitimisation of ethnonationalist power enabled by the agreement has reduced citizenship to an all-encompassing logic of ethnonational belonging and implicitly reproduced its attendant patriarchal gender order. Foregrounding women’s diverse experiences, the book reveals gendered ramifications produced at the intersection of conflict, ethno-nationalism and international peacebuilding. Deploying a multidimensional feminist approach centred around women’s narratives of belonging, exclusion, and agency, this book offers a critical interrogation of the promises of peace and explores individual/collective efforts to re-imagine citizenship.

Author : Larisa Jašarevic
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253023858

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Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market by Larisa Jašarevic Pdf

Larisa Jasarevic offers an unforgettable look at the everyday experiences of people living in post-socialist, post-war Bosnia. Not at all existing on the world's margins, Bosnians today are concerned with the good life and are as entangled in consumer debt as everyone else. The insecurities of living in an economy dominated by informal networks of trade, personal credit, and indebtedness are experienced by Bosnians in terms of physical ailments, some not recognized by Western medical science. Jasarevic follows ordinary Bosnians in their search for treatment—from use of pharmaceuticals to alternative medicines and folk healers of various kinds. Financial well-being and health are woven together for Bosnians, and Jasarevic adeptly traces the links between the two realms. In the process, she addresses a number of themes that have been important in studies of life under neoliberalism in other parts of the world.

Author : Alexandra Schwell,Micha? Buchowski,Malgorzata Kowalska,Nina Szogs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781137516985

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New Ethnographies of Football in Europe by Alexandra Schwell,Micha? Buchowski,Malgorzata Kowalska,Nina Szogs Pdf

Football has emerged as an important symbolic field through which various social, cultural, political, economic, and historical dimensions and antagonisms are negotiated. This volume covers a variety of themes illuminating the multiple ways that football impacts on people's everyday lives. Using anthropological research methods and data collected from ethnographic fieldwork, the contributors scrutinize not only the social fields of football fans and the specific socio-cultural contexts in which they are embedded, but also other actors beyond the pitch, and the possibilities for both agency and subversion. Taking into account processes of Europeanization, globalization, commercialization and migration, the collection offers fresh insights into fan identity formations and practices and highlights the importance of anthropology's self-reflexive and actor-centred perspective.

Author : National Education Association of the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Education
ISBN : UCAL:B3433509

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Proceedings, Abstracts of Lectures and a Brief Report of the Discussions of the National Teachers' Association, the National Association of School Superintendents and the American Normal School Association by National Education Association of the United States Pdf

Author : National Education Association of the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39076007018356

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Journal of Proceeding and Addresses by National Education Association of the United States Pdf

Vols. for 1866-70 include Proceedings of the American Normal School Association; 1866-69 include Proceedings of the National Association of School Superintendents; 1870 includes Addresses and journal of proceedings of the Central College Association.

Author : Alexandra Halkias
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0822333236

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The Empty Cradle of Democracy by Alexandra Halkias Pdf

DIVAn ethnographic study that shows how similar national and cultural beliefs about gender, sexuality, and Greekness are the basis of both the public condemnation of abortion and its prevalence in Greece./div