Everyday Life in the Balkans

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: David W. Montgomery
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 11/26/2018
Pages: 422
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780253026170

About the Author

Milica Bakic-Hayden teaches at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

 

Čarna Brkovic is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg. She is the author of Managing Ambiguity: How Clientelism, Citizenship and Power Shapes Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina and editor with Stef Jansen and Vanja Čelebičic of Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Semiperipheral Entanglements.

 

Keith Brown teaches in the Department of International Relations at Brown University.

 

Ana Croegaert is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of New Orleans.

 

Albert Doja is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Lille, France, and Chair of Anthropology of the National Academy of Sciences, Albania.

 

Mila Dragojevic is an Associate Professor of Politics at the University of the South. She is the author of The Politics of Social Ties: Immigrants in an Ethnic Homeland.

 

Jelena Dzankic is Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and coordinates the work of the EUI's Global Citizenship Observatory. She is the author of Citizenship in Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro: Effects of Statehood and Identity Challenges.

 

Natasa Gregorič Bon is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) and Assistant Professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU. She is an editor with Jaka Repič of Moving Places: Relations, Return and Belonging and author of Spaces of Discordance: Ethnography of Space and Place in the Village of Dhërmi/Drimades, Southern Albania.

 

Alyssa Grossman is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Artistic Practice at Valand Art Academy, University of Gothenburg.

 

Yana Hashamova is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures and Associate Researcher at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.