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1 online resource (xiv, 401 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Seeing everyday life in the Balkans / David W. Montgomery -- The (historical) context of everyday life -- Early Balkan everyday life / Andrew Wachtel -- Crimes and misdemeanors : scenes of everyday life among the gendarmerie in Ottoman Macedonia, ca. 1900 / Ipek K. Yosmaoglu -- It's what's inside that counts : furnishing the modern in the apartments of socialist Yugoslavia / Patrick Hyder Patterson -- Consuming lives: inside the Balkan kafene / Mary Neuburger -- Burek, da! sociality, context, and idiom in Macedonia and beyond / Keith Brown -- The home(s) of everyday life -- Kinship and safety nets in Croatia and Kosovo / Carolin Leutloff-Grandits -- "This much we know" : domestic remedies and quotidian tricks since Tito's Bosnia / Larisa jasarevic -- Femininity, fashion, and feminism: women's activists in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Elissa Helms -- That black cloud upon our family : everyday life of gays and lesbians in Slovenia / Roman Kuhar -- Between past and future : young people's strategies for living a "normal life" in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina / Monika Palmberger -- "But where else could they go?" the state, family, and private care in a Bosnian town / Azra Hromadzic -- The livelihoods of everyday life -- Cars, coffee, and "the crisis" : Balkan migration in precarious times / Ana Croegaert -- "We don't belong anywhere" : everyday life in a Serbian town where immigrants are former refugees / Mila Dragojevic -- Neoliberal spaces of immorality : the creation of a Bulgarian land market and "land-grabbing" foreign investors / Deema Kaneff -- Making ends meet in a rural community : the life and times of Aleksandar Zivojinovic / Andrew Konitzer -- A lot of sweat, a little bit of fun, and not entirely "hard men": worker's masculinity in the Uljanik shipyard / Andrea Matosevic -- Perceptions of Balkan belonging in postdictatorship Greece / Daniel M. Knight -- The politics of everyday life -- Neither the Balkans nor Europe : the "where" and "when" in present-day Albania / Natasa Gregoric Bon -- Growing up in Montenegro : a story of transformation and resistance / Jelena Dzankic -- War criminals, national heroes, and transitional justice in Macedonia / Vasiliki P Neofotistos -- A lively border : Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia on the shifting banks of the Drina / Carna Brkovic and Stef Jansen -- "Politicians are all crooks!" : everyday politics in Bulgaria / Emilia Zankina -- Life among statues in Skopje / Ilka Thiessen -- The religion(s) of everyday life -- "The hardest time was the time without morality" : religion, transition, and social navigation in Albania / David W. Montgomery -- Ramadan in Prizren, Kosovo / Frances Trix -- The cross at the crossroads : the feast of slava between faith and custom / Milica Bakic-Hayden -- Boundaries of freedom, boundaries of responsibility : everyday religious life of Croatian Catholic women / Slavica Jakelic -- Religious boundaries, komshuluk, and sharing sacred spaces in Bulgaria / Magdalena Lubanska -- The everyday of religion and politics in the Balkans / Albert Doja -- The art of everyday life -- Unintentional memorials : everyday places of memory in postransition Bucharest / Alyssa Grossman -- Between east and west, folk and pop, state and market : changing landscapes of bulgarian folk music / Carol Silverman -- Mothers in Balkan film / Yana Hashamova -- Memories of foreign love / Ervin Hatibi -- The sound of charcoal rustling : drawing from life in Belgrade / Marko Zivkovic -- Postface / David W. Montgomery. |
| Summary |
Everyday Life in the Balkansgathers 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 Balkansprovides the background context necessary for an enlightened conversation about the policies, economics, and culture of the region. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Balkan Peninsula -- Social life and customs.
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Balkan Peninsula. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Montgomery, David W., 1968- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Everyday life in the Balkans. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2018 9780253026170 (DLC) 2018048030 |
| ISBN |
9780253038203 (electronic book) |
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0253038200 (electronic book) |
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9780253038197 (electronic book) |
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0253038197 (electronic book) |
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9780253026170 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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0253038170 |
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9780253038173 |
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