| Author | : Gerlachlus Duijzings |
| Publisher | : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781850653929 |
Kosovo is a frontier society where two Balkan nations, Albanian and Serb, as well as two religions, Islam and Christianity, clash. The tension between conflict and symbiosis lies at the core of this book.
| Author | : Gerlachlus Duijzings |
| Publisher | : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781850654315 |
Kosovo is a frontier society where two Balkan nations, Albanian and Serb, as well as two religions, Islam and Christianity, clash. The tension between conflict and symbiosis lies at the core of this book.
| Author | : Olivier Roy |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2015-07-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137517840 |
This book shifts analytical focus from macro-politicization and securitization of Islam to Muslims' choices, practices and public expressions of faith. An empirically rich analysis, the book provides rich cross-country evidence on the emergence of autonomous faith communities as well as the evolution of Islam in the broader European context.
| Author | : G. Ognjenovic |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2014-12-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 113747789X |
This book examines the role religion played in the dismantling of Yugoslavia; addressing practical concerns of inter-ethnic fighting, religiously-motivated warfare, and the role religion played within the dissolution of the nation.
| Author | : Éamonn Ó Ciardha |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2015-12-14 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317483553 |
Ireland and the Balkans have come to represent divided and (re)united communities. They both provide effective microcosms of national, ethnic, political, military, religious, ideological and cultural conflicts in their respective regions and, as a result, they demonstrate real and imaginary divisions. This book will specifically focus on the history, politics and literature of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Northern Ireland, while making comparative reference to some of Europe’s other disputed and divided regions. Using case-studies such as Kosovo and Serbia; Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Russia and Belarus; Greece and Macedonia, it examines ‘space’, ‘place’ and ‘border’ discourse, the topography of war and violence, post-war settlement and reconciliation, and the location and negotiation of national, ethnic, religious, political and cultural identities. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of cultural studies, history, politics, Irish studies, Slavonic studies, area studies and literary studies.
| Author | : Jana Bacevic |
| Publisher | : Central European University Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2014-01-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 6155225729 |
From Class to Identity offers an analysis of education policy-making in the processes of social transformation and post-conflict development in the Western Balkans. Based on a number of examples (case studies) of education reform in the former Yugoslavia from the decade before its violent breakup to contemporary efforts in post-conflict reconstruction it tells the story of the political processes and motivations underlying specific education reforms. The book moves away from technical-rational or prescriptive approaches that dominate the literature on education policy-making during social transformation, and offers an example on how to include the social, political and cultural context in the understanding of policy reforms. It connects education policy at a particular time in a particular place with broader questions such as: What is the role of education in society? What kind of education is needed for a 'good' society? Who are the 'targets' of education policies (individuals/citizens, ethnic/religious/linguistic groups, societies)? Bacevic shows how different answers to these questions influence the contents and outcomes of policies.
| Author | : H. T. Norris |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Balkan Peninsula |
| ISBN | : 9780872499775 |
From the earliest times, also, many Balkan Muslim soldiers and bureaucrats, as well as scholars and poets, made an impact on the wider Islamic world, the most prominent being Mohammed Ali, the founder of modern Egypt.
| Author | : Paulin Kola |
| Publisher | : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781850656647 |
In this topical text Paulin Kola challenges the accepted notion that there is widespread support for a Greater Albania among the Albanian-speaking peoples of the Balkans, and argues that Albanians do not wish to join a single, politically-recognized entity. He explains how the Albanians are marked by ideological, religious and other divisions, many of which were exacerbated by their differing reactions to nationalism, as experienced in Tito's Yugoslavia and Hoxha's Albania.
| Author | : Filip Ejdus |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2019-07-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 303020667X |
This book develops a novel way of thinking about crises in world politics. By building on ontological security theory, this work conceptualises critical situations as radical disjunctions that challenge the ability of collective agents to ‘go on’. These ontological crises bring into the realm of discursive consciousness four fundamental questions related to existence, finitude, relations and autobiography. In times of crisis, collective agents such as states are particularly attached to their ontic spaces, or spatial extensions of the self that cause collective identities to appear more firm and continuous. These theoretical arguments are illustrated in a case study looking at Serbia’s anxiety over the secession of Kosovo. The author argues that Serbia’s seemingly irrational and self-harming policy vis-à-vis Kosovo can be understood as a form of ontological self-help. It is a rational pursuit of biographical continuity and a healthy sense of self in the face of an ontological crisis triggered by the secession of a province that has been constructed as the ontic space of the Serbian nation since the late 19th century.
