„Comparative Southeast European Studies“ 69, no. 2–3, is focused on „Kosovo in the Yugoslav 1980s“. The guest editors of this second issue published in the journal's new open access format are Hannes Grandits (Berlin), Robert Pichler (Vienna) and Ruža Fotiadis (Berlin). The thematic double issue addresses the Kosovo crisis of 1981 and its consequences from a comprehensively Yugoslav perspective. Each of the ten research articles, as well as the two biographic accounts in the Open Section („Living Memories“) contribute to increasing our knowledge on the effects that the escalating situation in Kosovo had on political developments, public opinion, knowledge production and, not lastly, individual life courses: The authors offer an all-Yugoslav panorama which both mirrors and refracts the social, political and economic conflicts in the country. A special focus is put on alternative potentials for action, on missed-out opportunities, paths that were never trodden. The destructive force of nationalism is irrefutably known. The authors however give differentiated insights into the scenarios triggered by the crisis in Kosovo, putting an emphasis on the variety of decisive moments the actors faced while searching for solutions.
The book reviews are accessible also on recensio.net
Table of Contents
Kosovo in the Yugoslav 1980s Guest Editors: Hannes Grandits, Robert Pichler and Ruža Fotiadis
Robert Pichler, Hannes Grandits and Ruža Fotiadis Kosovo in the 1980s – Yugoslav Perspectives and Interpretations 171
Mrika Limani Myrtaj The Ideology and Agency of Kosovar Albanian Marxist Groups in the Demonstrations of 1981 183
Jure Ramšak “Kosovo, My Land”? Slovenians, Albanians, and the Limits of Yugoslav Social Cohesion 205
Radina Vučetić Kosovo 1989: The (Ab)use of the Kosovo Myth in Media and Popular Culture 223
Husnija Kamberović The Discourse about Kosovo in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1981–1989 245
Branimir Janković Croatia’s Knowledge Production on Kosovo around 1989 267
Robert Pichler In the Shadow of Kosovo. Divergent National Pathways and the Politics of Differentiation in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia 289
Elife Krasniqi Same Goal, Different Paths, Different Class: Women’s Feminist Political Engagements in Kosovo from the Mid-1970s until the Mid-1990s 313
Nenad Stefanov Producing and Cracking Kosovo Myths. The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Emergence and Critique of a New Ethnonationalism, 1984–1990 335
Arban Mehmeti Relations Between the Writers’ Associations of Kosova and Serbia in the Second Half of the 1980s 355
Dino Mujadžević and Christian Voß Sub-Yugoslav Identity Building in the Enciklopedija Jugoslavije (1955–1990): The Case of the Albanian Question 375
Living Memories
Dubravka Stojanović Being a Trainee Historian in Belgrade, 1989 399
Adriatik Kelmendi Segregation – Growing Up in Kosovo 413
Book Reviews
Pieter Troch Filip Ejdus, Crisis and Ontological Insecurity. Serbia’s Anxiety over Kosovo’s Secession 421
Hendrik Geiling Aleksandar Pavlović, Gazela Pudar Draško and Rigels Halili, eds, Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations. Figuring Out the Enemy 425
Remus Creţan Andreas Eckert and Felicitas Hentschke, eds, Corona and Work around the Globe 429
Malte Fuhrmann Axel Gehring, Vom Mythos des starken Staates und der europäischen Integration der Türkei. Über eine Ökonomie an der Peripherie des euro-atlantischen Raumes 433
Zora Hesová Vjeran Pavlaković and Davor Pauković, eds, Framing the Nation and Collective Identities. Political Rituals and Cultural Memory of the Twentieth-Century Traumas in Croatia 437
Matthias Schwartz Sabine von Löwis, ed, Umstrittene Räume in der Ukraine. Politische Diskurse, literarische Repräsentationen und kartographische Visualisierungen 441
Meinolf Arens Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg et al., eds, Identitätsentwürfe im östlichen Europa – im Spannungsfeld von Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung 445
Marina Kritikou Dimitris Katsikas, ed, Public Discourses and Attitudes in Greece during the Crisis. Framing the Role of the European Union, Germany and National Governments 449