Pål Kolstø - Strategies of Symbolic Nation-building in South Eastern Europe

STRATEGIES OF SYMBOLIC NATION-BUILDING IN
SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE

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Strategies of Symbolic
Nation-building in
South Eastern Europe

Edited by

PL KOLST
University of Oslo, Norway

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Strategies of symbolic nation-building in South Eastern Europe / edited by Pl Kolst.

pages cm. (Southeast European studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-1916-3 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4724-1917-0 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-4724-1918-7 (epub)

1. Nation-buildingBalkan Peninsula. 2. Balkan Peninsula Politics and government 1989 I. Kolst, Pl, author, editor of compilation.

JN97.A58S77 2014

327.11dc23

2013032313

ISBN 9781472419163 (hbk)

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Pl Kolst

Vjeran Pavlakovi

Ana Devi

Vladan Jovanovi

Jelena Danki

Vjollca Krasniqi

Ljupcho S. Risteski and Armanda Kodra Hysa

Cecilie Endresen

Pl Kolst and Vatroslav Jelovica

Ana Devi PhD in sociology from the University of California at San Diego, is lecturer at Dogus University in Istanbul. Her research interests are the sociology and politics of ethnic divisions, nationalism, and social movements, and in the consequences of Western interventions in the region of former Yugoslavia. She has published in a number of international journals and has edited the volume Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Democracy (2002); The Politics of Mass Graves and Deceased Persons in V. Perica and D. Gavrilovi (eds) Political Myths in Former Yugoslavia and Successor States: A Shared Narrative (2011).

Jelena Danki (b. 1982), PhD, University of Cambridge, is Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Research interests include citizenship, nationalism, EU integration, Western Balkans. She has published: Cutting the mists of the Black Mountain: cleavages in Montenegros divide over statehood and identity, Nationalities Papers, 41(3):41330; Understanding citizenship in Montenegro, Citizenship Studies, 16(34): 33651; Montenegros minorities in the tangles of citizenship, participation, and access to rights, Journal of Minorities and Ethnopolitics in Europe, 11(2): 130 and Bipolar worlds of nation and state in Montenegro, CEU Political Science Journal: Nationalism and International Relations, 2(2): 192212.

Cecilie Endresen (b. 1974), PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oslo. Research interests include history of religion, the Balkans, nationalism, Islam and Christianity, Albania, Romania, religion and politics and identities. She has published Is the Albanians Religion Really Albanianism? Religion and Nation According to Muslim and Christian Leaders in Albania (2012).

Armanda Kodra Hysa (b. 1978), PhD, Alexander Nash Fellow in Albanian Studies, at School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Research interests include urban Ottoman heritage in the Balkans, with special focus on bazaars past and present nationalism and ethnic relations in Western Balkans, with special focus on ethnic and religious mixed marriages among Serbs and Albanians. Among others, she has published Ethnography in Communist Albania: Nationalist Discourse and Relations with History, Historini Seminar 8/2010, SASA: Ljubjana and History, Form and Function of the Old Bazaar of Tirana in A. Hemming, G. Kera and E. Pandelejmoni (eds) Albania, Family, Society and Culture (2012).

Vatroslav Jelovica (b. 1985), MA in Psychology from University of Zagreb, is an intern at the Center for Applied Psychology, University of Zagreb. His research interests are cognitive psychology and psychometrics. He has published: tulhofer, A., Jelovica, V., Rui, J. (2008) Is Early Exposure to Pornography a Risk Factor for Sexual Compulsivity? Findings From an Online Survey Among Young Heterosexual Adults, in International Journal of Sexual Health, 20(4): 27080.

Vladan Jovanovi (b. 1968), PhD is a research fellow at the Institute for the Recent History of Serbia (Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije). Research interests include national identities, Macedonia and Kosovo in Yugoslavia, forced migration, integration of the formerly Ottoman territories into the Yugoslav state. He has published Jugoslovenska drava i Juna Srbija 19181929. Makedonija, Sandak, Kosovo i Metohija u Kraljevini SHS (2002) and Vardarska banovina 19291941 (2011).

Pl Kolst (b. 1953), professor of Russian and East European studies, University of Oslo. He specialises in nationalism, nation-building, ethnic conflicts and de facto states in the Western Balkans and the former Soviet Union. Has edited two volumes on the Western Balkans: