All in all, Komšić book constitutes an important source which provides the reader with additional perspectives and insights about the war in BiH. The only criticism is of editorial nature: Except for the documentation part, where many of the documents are accompanied by comments from the author, the diary itself is presented as ‘raw material’, without explanatory notes. For readers not too familiar with BiH, this makes the diary not an easy read, as many different persons, organisations, places and events appear in the text which are not necessarily known to the reader. It would therefore have been useful to add explanatory footnotes within the text, or at least, in the index of names, the functions pertaining to the mentioned individuals. Also, a map of BiH showing specifically the towns and regions which are mentioned would have been useful for a better orientation.
{"title":"The Revival of Islam in the Balkans","authors":"X. Bougarel","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2016-0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2016-0035","url":null,"abstract":"All in all, Komšić book constitutes an important source which provides the reader with additional perspectives and insights about the war in BiH. The only criticism is of editorial nature: Except for the documentation part, where many of the documents are accompanied by comments from the author, the diary itself is presented as ‘raw material’, without explanatory notes. For readers not too familiar with BiH, this makes the diary not an easy read, as many different persons, organisations, places and events appear in the text which are not necessarily known to the reader. It would therefore have been useful to add explanatory footnotes within the text, or at least, in the index of names, the functions pertaining to the mentioned individuals. Also, a map of BiH showing specifically the towns and regions which are mentioned would have been useful for a better orientation.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"64 1","pages":"257 - 421 - 422"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2016-0035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67295597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workers and Revolution in Serbia. From Tito to Milošević","authors":"S. Rutar","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2016-0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2016-0039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"64 1","pages":"160 - 429 - 432"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2016-0039","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67295752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engineering Revolution. The Paradox of Democracy Promotion in Serbia","authors":"Johanna K. Bockman","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2016-0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2016-0052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"64 1","pages":"256 - 584 - 586"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2016-0052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67296952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article is based on the life stories of about 100 women and men born in the 1920s and 1930s in Bulgaria. The stories were elicited in oral history interviews enquiring into their lives under the communist regime. The starting hypothesis was that, in the absence of a shared public narrative about the socialist past, as is the case in present-day Bulgaria, people would struggle to make sense of their lives during the time of socialism and have difficulty producing meaningful autobiographical accounts. The article explores the narrative strategies the interviewees adopted to let them present their lives as meaningfully seamless and coherent, despite the change in frame of reference. Four such strategies are discussed: sameness (unbroken loyalty to the former regime); biographical revisionism (distancing the self from the regime but retaining loyalty to the ideology); reversed temporality (privileging the past); and steering away (focusing on private life while ignoring its context).
{"title":"Negotiating Socialist Lives after the Fall. Narrative Resources and Strategies of the First Socialist Generation in Bulgaria","authors":"D. Koleva","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2016-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2016-0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article is based on the life stories of about 100 women and men born in the 1920s and 1930s in Bulgaria. The stories were elicited in oral history interviews enquiring into their lives under the communist regime. The starting hypothesis was that, in the absence of a shared public narrative about the socialist past, as is the case in present-day Bulgaria, people would struggle to make sense of their lives during the time of socialism and have difficulty producing meaningful autobiographical accounts. The article explores the narrative strategies the interviewees adopted to let them present their lives as meaningfully seamless and coherent, despite the change in frame of reference. Four such strategies are discussed: sameness (unbroken loyalty to the former regime); biographical revisionism (distancing the self from the regime but retaining loyalty to the ideology); reversed temporality (privileging the past); and steering away (focusing on private life while ignoring its context).","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"64 1","pages":"344 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2016-0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67295401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Erhard Busek, former special coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe, assesses the present European crises—the refugee crisis, the financial crisis, the Greek crisis, the Ukrainian crisis, the Brexit crisis—from a Southeast European perspective, and from the perspective of one who has worked substantively toward the stabilization of the postwar societies of the successor states of Yugoslavia in the 2000s. This stabilization process has been a long and arduous task, albeit one that has borne fruit in spite of all the remaining fragilities. It would be a great mistake to forfeit what has been achieved, and not to take the achievement as a lesson for meeting the present challenges: developing a real conflict and crisis management process is a worthwhile endeavor.
{"title":"Europe on the Move. A Commentary","authors":"E. Busek","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2016-0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2016-0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Erhard Busek, former special coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe, assesses the present European crises—the refugee crisis, the financial crisis, the Greek crisis, the Ukrainian crisis, the Brexit crisis—from a Southeast European perspective, and from the perspective of one who has worked substantively toward the stabilization of the postwar societies of the successor states of Yugoslavia in the 2000s. This stabilization process has been a long and arduous task, albeit one that has borne fruit in spite of all the remaining fragilities. It would be a great mistake to forfeit what has been achieved, and not to take the achievement as a lesson for meeting the present challenges: developing a real conflict and crisis management process is a worthwhile endeavor.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"64 1","pages":"365 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2016-0030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67295468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Killing Compartments. The Mentality of Mass Murder","authors":"G. Duijzings","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2016-0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2016-0048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"64 1","pages":"332 - 574 - 576"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2016-0048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67296854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In July 2015 the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies—the home of this journal—hosted its 3rd Annual Conference. The title of the event was ‘Migration in and out of East and Southeastern Europe. Values, Networks, Well-Being’ and it brought together researchers from the social sciences and the humanities, who together clearly demonstrated how much value multiand interdisciplinary approaches add to the study of migration. As befi ts this journal, the contributions to that conference inspired us to assemble migration research focused on Southeastern Europe which looks at present or, rather, recent developments. Three of the fi ve papers in this special issue of Südosteuropa were presented and discussed during that July 2015 conference, while the other two papers, respectively by Nermin Oruč and Amina Tabaković and by Ana Aceska, were specially commissioned for this issue. Whereas the bulk of the scientifi c literature on the topic concentrates on the eff ects of migration within the society immigrated to, both the conference and the papers in this volume look too at the situation in countries emigrated from; in a way the phenomenon of return migration combines both elements along the time axis. Return migration is the topic of the fi rst paper, by Selma Porobić on ‘Bosnian “Returnee Voices” Communicating Experiences of Successful Reintegration. The Social Capital and Sustainable Return Nexus in Bosnia and Herzegovina.’ Porobić conducted illuminating interviews with returned migrants in three municipalities that experienced an enormous amount of war-displacement during the 1990s and substantial subsequent return migration. Clearly, ethnic confl icts in the region are still a major challenge requiring ‘social bridging’ eff orts between groups as well as ‘social bonding’ within homogenous groups. A third dimension, ‘social linking’, looks at the relationship between individuals or groups and state institutions. Porobić critically assesses the roles both of external help by humanitarian organisations such as the UNHCR, and the local and regional organisation of people—what she calls ‘grass-roots acSüdosteuropa 64 (2016), no. 1, pp. 1-4
{"title":"Migration in and out of Southeastern Europe. Values, Networks, Wellbeing","authors":"J. Jerger, Michael Knogler","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2016-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2016-0001","url":null,"abstract":"In July 2015 the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies—the home of this journal—hosted its 3rd Annual Conference. The title of the event was ‘Migration in and out of East and Southeastern Europe. Values, Networks, Well-Being’ and it brought together researchers from the social sciences and the humanities, who together clearly demonstrated how much value multiand interdisciplinary approaches add to the study of migration. As befi ts this journal, the contributions to that conference inspired us to assemble migration research focused on Southeastern Europe which looks at present or, rather, recent developments. Three of the fi ve papers in this special issue of Südosteuropa were presented and discussed during that July 2015 conference, while the other two papers, respectively by Nermin Oruč and Amina Tabaković and by Ana Aceska, were specially commissioned for this issue. Whereas the bulk of the scientifi c literature on the topic concentrates on the eff ects of migration within the society immigrated to, both the conference and the papers in this volume look too at the situation in countries emigrated from; in a way the phenomenon of return migration combines both elements along the time axis. Return migration is the topic of the fi rst paper, by Selma Porobić on ‘Bosnian “Returnee Voices” Communicating Experiences of Successful Reintegration. The Social Capital and Sustainable Return Nexus in Bosnia and Herzegovina.’ Porobić conducted illuminating interviews with returned migrants in three municipalities that experienced an enormous amount of war-displacement during the 1990s and substantial subsequent return migration. Clearly, ethnic confl icts in the region are still a major challenge requiring ‘social bridging’ eff orts between groups as well as ‘social bonding’ within homogenous groups. A third dimension, ‘social linking’, looks at the relationship between individuals or groups and state institutions. Porobić critically assesses the roles both of external help by humanitarian organisations such as the UNHCR, and the local and regional organisation of people—what she calls ‘grass-roots acSüdosteuropa 64 (2016), no. 1, pp. 1-4","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"64 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2016-0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67294272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The Brexit vote was not simply a rejection of the European Union but also of a politics based on calculated self-interest or reasoned idealism. The author outlines how the referendum came about, provides crucial background information, and analyses its results. The reasons for the success of the Leave campaign are concisely presented, including the role of parties other than the Labour and Tory parties and that of the media in promoting, instead of critically assessing, a campaign characterized by exaggerated, even false claims. In his outlook towards the future, the author focuses on the UK/EU relationship and the internal constitutional crisis the Brexit vote has created and the dangers these pose for (further) destabilisation both of Britain and Europe.
{"title":"Brexit and Europe. A Commentary","authors":"J. Breuilly","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2016-0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2016-0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Brexit vote was not simply a rejection of the European Union but also of a politics based on calculated self-interest or reasoned idealism. The author outlines how the referendum came about, provides crucial background information, and analyses its results. The reasons for the success of the Leave campaign are concisely presented, including the role of parties other than the Labour and Tory parties and that of the media in promoting, instead of critically assessing, a campaign characterized by exaggerated, even false claims. In his outlook towards the future, the author focuses on the UK/EU relationship and the internal constitutional crisis the Brexit vote has created and the dangers these pose for (further) destabilisation both of Britain and Europe.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"64 1","pages":"372 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2016-0031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67295031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines the memory and narratives of the 1999 NATO bombings through a spatial lens, discussing how the debates surrounding memorial architecture reflect the multiple, and at times conflicting, understandings of the NATO bombing. By analysing the competition to reconstruct Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) from its ruins, this article discusses the tensions and challenges brought by narratives representing victimhood in Belgrade after 1999. It examines how understandings of victimhood have been spatialized through urban memorials, situating the RTS competition in the wider landscape of memorial representations of the NATO bombing in Serbia. Developed using a bottom-up process, the competition for the RTS memorial reflects both the opportunities and the limits of memorial architecture. While the competition and overall debates mirror general trends of memorial architecture in the context of European politics of regret and trauma, the limited scope of the memorial and its marginality in the cityscape both reflect and enhance the continuing obfuscation of the past in Serbia.
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