„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 1980sGuest Editors: Hannes Grandits, Robert Pichler and Ruža Fotiadis
Robert Pichler, Hannes Grandits and Ruža FotiadisKosovo in the 1980s – Yugoslav Perspectives and Interpretations171
Mrika Limani MyrtajThe Ideology and Agency of Kosovar Albanian Marxist Groups in the Demonstrations of 1981183
Jure Ramšak“Kosovo, My Land”? Slovenians, Albanians, and the Limits of Yugoslav Social Cohesion205
Radina VučetićKosovo 1989: The (Ab)use of the Kosovo Myth in Media and Popular Culture223
Husnija KamberovićThe Discourse about Kosovo in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1981–1989245
Branimir JankovićCroatia’s Knowledge Production on Kosovo around 1989267
Robert PichlerIn the Shadow of Kosovo. Divergent National Pathways and the Politics of Differentiation in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia289
Elife KrasniqiSame Goal, Different Paths, Different Class: Women’s Feminist Political Engagements in Kosovo from the Mid-1970s until the Mid-1990s313
Nenad StefanovProducing and Cracking Kosovo Myths. The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Emergence and Critique of a New Ethnonationalism, 1984–1990335
Arban MehmetiRelations Between the Writers’ Associations of Kosova and Serbia in the Second Half of the 1980s355
Dino Mujadžević and Christian VoßSub-Yugoslav Identity Building in the Enciklopedija Jugoslavije (1955–1990): The Case of the Albanian Question375
Living Memories
Dubravka StojanovićBeing a Trainee Historian in Belgrade, 1989399
Adriatik KelmendiSegregation – Growing Up in Kosovo413
Book Reviews
Pieter TrochFilip Ejdus, Crisis and Ontological Insecurity. Serbia’s Anxiety over Kosovo’s Secession421
Hendrik GeilingAleksandar Pavlović, Gazela Pudar Draško and Rigels Halili, eds, Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations. Figuring Out the Enemy425
Remus CreţanAndreas Eckert and Felicitas Hentschke, eds, Corona and Work around the Globe429
Malte FuhrmannAxel Gehring, Vom Mythos des starken Staates und der europäischen Integration der Türkei. Über eine Ökonomie an der Peripherie des euro-atlantischen Raumes433
Zora HesováVjeran Pavlaković and Davor Pauković, eds, Framing the Nation and Collective Identities. Political Rituals and Cultural Memory of the Twentieth-Century Traumas in Croatia437
Matthias SchwartzSabine von Löwis, ed, Umstrittene Räume in der Ukraine. Politische Diskurse, literarische Repräsentationen und kartographische Visualisierungen441
Meinolf ArensHans-Jürgen Bömelburg et al., eds, Identitätsentwürfe im östlichen Europa – im Spannungsfeld von Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung445
Marina KritikouDimitris Katsikas, ed, Public Discourses and Attitudes in Greece during the Crisis. Framing the Role of the European Union, Germany and National Governments449