Everyday Life in the Balkans

Montgomery, David W. (EDT)

Indiana University Press（2018/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 422 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780253026170

Full Description

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.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Seeing Everyday Life in the Balkans / David W. Montgomery

Section I: The (Historical) Context of Everyday Life

2. Early Balkan Everyday Life / Andrew Wachtel

3. Crimes and Misdemeanors: Scenes of Everyday Life among the Gendarmerie in Ottoman Macedonia, ca. 1900 / Ipek K. Yosmaoğlu

4. It's What's Inside That Counts: Furnishing the Modern in the Apartments of Socialist Yugoslavia / Patrick Hyder Patterson

5. Consuming Lives: Inside the Balkan Kafene / Mary Neuburger

6. Burek, Da! Sociality, Context, and Idiom in Macedonia and Beyond / Keith Brown

Section II: The Home(s) of Everyday Life

7. Kinship and Safety Nets in Croatia and Kosovo / Carolin Leutloff-Grandits

8. "This Much We Know": Domestic Remedies and Quotidian Tricks since Tito's Bosnia / Larisa Jašarević

9. Femininity, Fashion, and Feminism: Women's Activists in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Elissa Helms

10. That Black Cloud upon Our Family: Everyday Life of Gays and Lesbians in Slovenia / Roman Kuhar

11. Between Past and Future: Young People's Strategies for Living a "Normal Life" in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina / Monika Palmberger

12. "But Where Else Could They Go?" The State, Family, and Private Care in a Bosnian Town / Azra Hromadžić

Section III: The Livelihoods of Everyday Life

13. Cars, Coffee, and "The Crisis": Balkan Migration in Precarious Times / Ana Croegaert

14. "We Don't Belong Anywhere": Everyday Life in a Serbian Town Where Immigrants Are Former Refugees / Mila Dragojević

15. Neoliberal Spaces of Immorality: The Creation of a Bulgarian Land Market and "Land-grabbing" Foreign Investors / Deema Kaneff

16. Making Ends Meet in a Rural Community: The Life and Times of Aleksandar Živojinović / Andrew Konitzer

17. A Lot of Sweat, a Little Bit of Fun, and Not Entirely "Hard Men": Worker's Masculinity in the Uljanik Shipyard / Andrea Matošević

18. Perceptions of Balkan Belonging in Post-dictatorship Greece / Daniel M. Knight

Section IV: The Politics of Everyday Life

19. Neither the Balkans nor Europe: The "Where" and "When" in Present-day Albania / Nataša Gregorič Bon

20. Growing Up in Montenegro: A Story of Transformation and Resistance / Jelena Džankić

21. War Criminals, National Heroes, and Transitional Justice in Macedonia / Vasiliki P. Neofotistos

22. A Lively Border / Čarna Brković and Stef Jansen

23. "Politicians Are All Crooks!" Everyday Politics in Bulgaria / Emilia Zankina

24. Life among Statues in Skopje / Ilká Thiessen

Section V: The Religion(s) of Everyday Life

25. "The Hardest Time was the Time without Morality": Religion, Transition, and Social Navigation in Albania / David W. Montgomery

26. Ramadan in Prizren / Frances Trix

27. The Cross at the Crossroads: The Feast of Slava between Faith and Custom / Milica Bakić-Hayden

28. Boundaries of Freedom, Boundaries of Responsibility: Everyday Religious Life of Croatian Catholic Women / Slavica Jakelić

29. Religious Boundaries, Komsholuk, and Sharing Sacred Spaces in Bulgaria / Magdalena Lubanska

30. The Everyday of Religion and Politics in the Balkans / Albert Doja

Section VI: The Art of Everyday Life

31. Unintentional Memorials: Everyday Places of Memory in Post-transition Bucharest / Alyssa Grossman

32. Between East and West, Folk and Pop, State and Market: Changing Landscapes of Bulgarian Folk Music / Carol Silverman

33. Mothers in Balkan Film / Yana Hashamova

34. Memories of Foreign Love / Ervin Hatibi

35. The Sound of Charcoal Rustling: Drawing from Life in Belgrade / Marko Živković

Postface / David W. Montgomery

Index