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Everyday Life in the Balkans
David W. Montgomery (Edited by)
9780253026170
Hardback, published 26 November 2018
422 pages, 68 b&w illus., 1 table - 1 Halftones, black and white - 24 Illustrations, black and white
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.726 kg
This richly illustrated volume features more than fifty, often beautiful, black-and-white photographs of everyday scenes.Everyday Life in the Balkans is a smart sampler, a best-off that provides short glimpses into late socialist, post-socialist, and recent scholarship. It is highly recommended bedtime reading for any scholar of the region—student or more advanced—interested in looking beyond his or her own nose.
Tthis volume offers invaluable insights into how the people of the Balkans construct their daily life in terms of art, religion, history, and ethnic relations.
(KULT online)The edited volume Everyday Life in the Balkans shows us that what is mundane is not at all boring. . . . Overall, this book is a welcome contribution to the literature on both the Balkans and everyday life. Its contributors together paint a vivid composite picture of life in an area that has been misunderstood for so long. This volume will go a long way in countering such misunderstandings by creating familiarity with local cultures and customs.
- Victoria Clement (Europe-Asia Studies)
Everyday Life in the Balkans gathers 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 Balkans provides the background context necessary for an enlightened conversation about the policies, economics, and culture of the region.
Preface Acknowledgements 1. Seeing Everyday Life in the Balkans / David W. Montgomery Section I: The (Historical) Context of Everyday Life 2. Early Balkan Everyday Life / Andrew Wachtel 3. Crimes and Misdemeanors: Scenes of Everyday Life among the Gendarmerie in Ottoman Macedonia, ca. 1900 / Ipek K. Yosmaoğlu 4. It's What's Inside That Counts: Furnishing the Modern in the Apartments of Socialist Yugoslavia / Patrick Hyder Patterson 5. Consuming Lives: Inside the Balkan Kafene / Mary Neuburger 6. Burek, Da! Sociality, Context, and Idiom in Macedonia and Beyond / Keith Brown Section II: The Home(s) of Everyday Life 7. Kinship and Safety Nets in Croatia and Kosovo / Carolin Leutloff-Grandits 8. "This Much We Know": Domestic Remedies and Quotidian Tricks since Tito's Bosnia / Larisa Jašarević 9. Femininity, Fashion, and Feminism: Women's Activists in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Elissa Helms 10. That Black Cloud upon Our Family: Everyday Life of Gays and Lesbians in Slovenia / Roman Kuhar 11. Between Past and Future: Young People's Strategies for Living a "Normal Life" in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina / Monika Palmberger 12. "But Where Else Could They Go?" The State, Family, and Private Care in a Bosnian Town / Azra Hromadžić Section III: The Livelihoods of Everyday Life 13. Cars, Coffee, and "The Crisis": Balkan Migration in Precarious Times / Ana Croegaert 14. "We Don't Belong Anywhere": Everyday Life in a Serbian Town Where Immigrants Are Former Refugees / Mila Dragojević 15. Neoliberal Spaces of Immorality: The Creation of a Bulgarian Land Market and "Land-grabbing" Foreign Investors / Deema Kaneff 16. Making Ends Meet in a Rural Community: The Life and Times of Aleksandar Živojinović / Andrew Konitzer 17. A Lot of Sweat, a Little Bit of Fun, and Not Entirely "Hard Men": Worker's Masculinity in the Uljanik Shipyard / Andrea Matošević 18. Perceptions of Balkan Belonging in Post-dictatorship Greece / Daniel M. Knight Section IV: The Politics of Everyday Life 19. Neither the Balkans nor Europe: The "Where" and "When" in Present-day Albania / Nataša Gregorič Bon 20. Growing Up in Montenegro: A Story of Transformation and Resistance / Jelena Džankić 21. War Criminals, National Heroes, and Transitional Justice in Macedonia / Vasiliki P. Neofotistos 22. A Lively Border / Čarna Brković and Stef Jansen 23. "Politicians Are All Crooks!" Everyday Politics in Bulgaria / Emilia Zankina 24. Life among Statues in Skopje / Ilká Thiessen Section V: The Religion(s) of Everyday Life 25. "The Hardest Time was the Time without Morality": Religion, Transition, and Social Navigation in Albania / David W. Montgomery 26. Ramadan in Prizren / Frances Trix 27. The Cross at the Crossroads: The Feast of Slava between Faith and Custom / Milica Bakić-Hayden 28. Boundaries of Freedom, Boundaries of Responsibility: Everyday Religious Life of Croatian Catholic Women / Slavica Jakelić 29. Religious Boundaries, Komsholuk, and Sharing Sacred Spaces in Bulgaria / Magdalena Lubanska 30. The Everyday of Religion and Politics in the Balkans / Albert Doja Section VI: The Art of Everyday Life 31. Unintentional Memorials: Everyday Places of Memory in Post-transition Bucharest / Alyssa Grossman 32. Between East and West, Folk and Pop, State and Market: Changing Landscapes of Bulgarian Folk Music / Carol Silverman 33. Mothers in Balkan Film / Yana Hashamova 34. Memories of Foreign Love / Ervin Hatibi 35. The Sound of Charcoal Rustling: Drawing from Life in Belgrade / Marko Živković Postface / David W. Montgomery Index