More than twenty years of rapid political, economic, social, and cultural change have turned Southeast Europe into a laboratory of transformative processes – processes that have deeply affected the structures of everyday life and that have resulted in a variety of (post-)modern life styles. The contributions by native and foreign researchers to this first of two volumes shed light on the changing practices and patterns of everyday life in Southeast Europe, many of which differ from those in other parts of Europe. The concepts of “multiple modernities” and “post-modernity” appear to be highly appropriate for a region in which – under the combined impact of post-socialist transformation, globalization, and EU integration – everyday life is marked by sharp dichotomies and tensions. Understanding these paths to (post-)modernity is relevant for those interested in the Balkans, as well as for those generally interested in processes of socio-cultural change.
Ethnologia Balkanica, vol. 15 (2011)
CONTENTS
Editorial
Key Note Carol Silverman, Eugene ORGypsy Music, Hybridity and Appropriation: Balkan Dilemmas of Postmodernity
Changing Spatial Relations and Practices
Goran Janev, SkopjeWhat Happened to the Macedonian Salad? Ethnocracy in Macedonia
Velislava Petrova, SofiaFemmes et marché urbain. De l’aventure marchande à la professionnalisation de l’expérience
Irina Stahl, Bucarest Le café au croisement des deux mondes. Exemple d’une acculturation volontaire dans la ville de Bucarest au XIXe siècle
Anamaria Depner, AugsburgAus alt mach Erbe. Der Umgang mit historischer Bausubstanz in Timişoara im Spannungsfeld zwischen postmodernem Liberalismus und normativer Europäisierung
Kornelia Ehrlich, BerlinCreative City Ljubljana? Europeanization Processes at the “Edge”
Daniela Ranković, BelgradeNew Belgrade Post-War Identity – Sustainable Modern City – Urban Transformation. Remembering in Post-Socialist Discourses
Ana Luleva, SofiaCollective Memory and Justice Policy. Post-Socialist Discourses on Memory Politics and Memory Culture in Bulgaria
Srđan Radović, BelgradeHistory, Memory, and Representations of Jajce’s Heritage – a Biography of a Town Revisited
Anelia Kassabova, SofiaKinder mit Behinderungen in der bulgarischen Pressefotografie: Visualisierungen als Strategie zur Aufdeckung oder Vertuschung sozialer Probleme
Ileana Benga, Cluj-NapocaBonfires for not Just Any Dead: Alms For the Aborted Children. Remembrance Rites at Sâmedru and Feminine Coping With the Rigours of Tradition in Rural Argeş, Romania
Gender, Family Relations, and Identities
Petruţa Teampău, ClujThe Romanian Red Body: Gender, Ideology and Propaganda in the Construction of the “New Man”
Sanja Zlatanović, BelgradeFamily in the Post-War Context: The Serbian Community of Southeast Kosovo
Zhenia Pimpireva, Yana Yancheva, SofiaThe Changing Family of Bessarabian Bulgarians in Post-Soviet Space
Marijana Mitrović, BelgradeNostalgia and Postmodernity in Post-Yugoslav Feminist Narratives
Adelina Vartolomei, ConstanţaRomanian Women Abroad as Depicted in Cinematography
Costin–Valentin Oancea, BucharestLanguage and (Wo)Men’s Place in 21st Century Romania
Migration and Social Processes
Angeliki Athanasopoulou, AthensConstructing a Modern and/or Western Identity: the Case of Albania and of Albanian Immigrants in Greece
Simona Bealcovschi, MontrealThe Past in the Present: Romanian Immigration and the Politics of the Self
Mila Maeva, SofiaInternet and the Bulgarian Emigration to and in Great Britain
Addresses of authors and editors Instructions to authors