Southeast European Studies: Southeast European Studies
About the Book 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.
Memory Politics and Populism in Southeastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Jody Jensen
January 09, 2023
This book explores the politics of memory in Southeastern Europe in the context of rising populisms and their hegemonic grip on official memory and politics. It speaks to the increased political, media and academic attention paid to the rise of discontent, frustration and cultural resistance from ...
Forging Transnational Belonging through Informal Trade: Thriving Markets in Times of Crisis
1st Edition
By Sandra King-Savic
September 26, 2022
Analyzing informal trading practices and smuggling through the case study of Novi Pazar, this book explores how societies cope when governments no longer assume the responsibility for providing welfare to their citizens. How do economic transnational practices shape one’s sense of belonging in ...
Post-Socialist Political Graffiti in the Balkans and Central Europe
1st Edition
By Mitja Velikonja
December 15, 2021
This theoretically and empirically grounded book uses case studies of political graffiti in the post-socialist Balkans and Central Europe to explore the use of graffiti as a subversive political media.Despite the increasing global digitisation, graffiti remains widespread and popular, providing ...
Electoral Violence in the Western Balkans: From Voting to Fighting and Back
1st Edition
By Michal Mochtak
December 13, 2021
Since the end of the Cold War there have been a number of cases where the democratization process has been turbulent, or even violent. Addressing electoral violence, its evolution and impact in the Western Balkans, this book explores the conflict logic of election and tries to understand its basic ...
Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations: Figuring out the Enemy
1st Edition
Edited
By Aleksandar Pavlović, Gazela Draško, Rigels Halili
December 13, 2021
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 ...
Romania and the Quest for European Identity: Philo-Germanism without Germans
1st Edition
By Cristian Cercel
December 13, 2021
Exploring the largely positive representations of Romanian Germans predominating in post-1989 Romanian society, this book shows that the underlying reasons for German prestige are strongly connected with Romania’s endeavors to become European.The election, in 2014, of Klaus Iohannis as Romania’s ...
Social Mobilization Beyond Ethnicity: Civic Activism and Grassroots Movements in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1st Edition
By Chiara Milan
December 13, 2021
This book offers an in-depth investigation of the emergence and spread of social mobilizations that transcend ethnicity in societies violently divided along ethno-national lines. Using Bosnia Herzegovina as a case study, the book explores episodes of mobilization which have superseded ...
The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia: Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution
1st Edition
By Jelena Đureinović
December 13, 2021
Exploring the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and postwar retribution and focusing on the Chetnik movement, this book analyses the politics of memory.Since the overthrow of Slobodan Miloševic in 2000, memory politics in Serbia has undergone drastic changes in the way in which the Second ...
The Western Balkans in the World: Linkages and Relations with Non-Western Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Florian Bieber, Nikolaos Tzifakis
December 13, 2021
This book provides a detailed understanding of how different types of engagements impact upon the reform and EU integration of the Western Balkan region. It examines the influence of Russia, China, Turkey and the UAE in the region and analyses the range of existing links.Contributors offer an ...
Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe: Beyond Ethnicity
1st Edition
Edited
By Tamara Trošt, Danilo Mandić
September 30, 2021
What shapes the cultural, political and ideological values of young people living in Southeastern Europe? Which identities matter to them? How are their values changing, and how can they be changed? Who is changing them? Europe’s periphery is the testing ground for the success of European values ...
Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Semiperipheral Entanglements
1st Edition
Edited
By Stef Jansen, Čarna Brković, Vanja Čelebičić
September 30, 2021
Exploring recent configurations of social relations in post-socialist, post-war, post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina this collection of ethnographic research turns an analytical lens on questions of sociality. Contributions based on long-term, in-depth research projects explore how people in ...
Social Inequalities and Discontent in Yugoslav Socialism
1st Edition
Edited
By Rory Archer, Igor Duda, Paul Stubbs
June 30, 2021
Socialist countries like Yugoslavia garnered legitimacy through appealing to social equality. Yet social stratification was characteristic of Yugoslav society and increased over the course of the state's existence. By the 1980s the country was divided on socio-economic as well as national lines. ...