Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations Figuring out the Enemy
Abstract
Identifying and explaining common views, ideas and traditions, this volume challenges the concept of Serbian-Albanian hostility by reinvestigating recent and historical events in the region. The contributors put forward critically oriented initiatives and alternatives to shed light on a range of relations and perspectives.
The central aim of the book is to ‘figure out’ the problematic relations between Serbs and Albanians – that is, to comprehend its origins and the actors involved, and to find ways to resolve and deal with this enmity. Treating the hostility as a construct of a long-running discourse about the Serbian or Albanian ‘Other’, scholars and intellectuals from Serbia, Kosovo and Albania examine the origins, channels, agents and mediums of this discourse from the 18th century to the present. Tracing the roots of the two ethnic groups' political divisions, contemporary practices and actions allows the contributors to reconsider mutually held negative perceptions and identif...
Keywords:
Balkans / Serbia / Albania / Serbian/Albanian Relations / international relations / nationalism / Balkan historySource:
Routledge, London; Southeast European Studies Series, 2019Publisher:
- London: Routledge
Funding / projects:
- Figura neprijatelja: preosmišljavanje srpsko-albanskih odnosa, Regionalni program podrške istraživanjima u oblasti društvenih nauka na Zapadnom Balkanu (RRPP) / Figuring out the Enemy: Re-imagining Serbian-Albanian Relations, RRPP - Regional Research Promotion Programme - Western Balkans
Note:
- Southeast European Studies Series The Balkans are a region of Europe widely associated over the past decades with violence and war. Beyond this violence, the region has experienced rapid change in recent times though, including democratization, economic and social transformation. New scholarship is emerging which seeks to move away from the focus on violence alone to an understanding of the region in a broader context drawing on new empirical research. The Southeast European Studies Series seeks to provide a forum for this new scholarship. Publishing cutting-edge, original research and contributing to a more profound understanding of Southeastern Europe while focusing on contemporary perspectives the series aims to explain the past and seeks to examine how it shapes the present. Focusing on original empirical research and innovative theoretical perspectives on the region the series includes original monographs and edited collections. It is interdisciplinary in scope, publishing high-level research in political science, history, anthropology, sociology, law and economics and accessible to readers interested in Southeast Europe and beyond.