In Comparative Southeast European Studies 71, no. 4, 2023, Svetlana Suveica and Petru Negură have compiled a thematic section on "Everyday Ethnicity and Popular Responses to Nation-Building Projects in Moldova after 1989".
The thematic section features ontributions by Vladimir Solonari, Keith Harrington, Jennifer Cash, Elena-Ana Daniela and Ion Marandici. It is among the first compilations to focus on recent nation-building processes in Moldova and is recommended to your attention.
In the open section, Christophe Solioz contributes a compelling essay that pays tribute to one of the great contemporary Slovenian literary figures, the late Boris Pahor (1913-1922).
In addition, the issue contains four book reviews.
Content
Everyday Ethnicity and Popular Responses to Nation-Building Projects in Moldova after 1989 Guest Editors: Petru Negură and Svetlana Suveica
Petru Negură and Svetlana Suveica Everyday Ethnicity and Popular Responses to Nation-Building Projects in Moldova After 1989 465
Vladimir Solonari Popular Sentiments and Political Failures: Understanding the Disintegration of the Republic of Moldova, 1989–1990 488
Keith Harrington Mobilising the Masses: Explaining the Rapid Rise of Worker Activism in Transnistria in the Late 1980s 517
Jennifer Cash Widening “Ground-Up” Nationalism: Some Reflections on Religion and Gender in the Republic of Moldova 546
Elena-Daniela Ana Wine as a “Cultural Product”? Ethnographic Notes on Work and Nationhood in the Republic of Moldova 565
Ion Marandici Z-Propaganda and Semiotic Resistance: Contesting Russia’s War Symbols in Moldova and Beyond 585
Essay
Christophe Solioz Boris Pahor’s Urban Miniature: Conducting the City as an Open-Ended Score 617
Book Reviews
Vladan Vukliš Dora Komnenović. Reading between the Lines: Reflections on Discarded Books and Sociopolitical Transformations in (Post-)Yugoslavia 631
Armend Bekaj Arben Hajrullahu and Anton Vukpalaj. eds. Forging Kosovo: Between Dependence, Independence, and Interdependence 634
Benjamin Nurkić Muamer Džananović, Jasmin Medić and Hikmet Karčić. Nastanak Republike Srpske: od regionalizacije do strateških ciljeva (1991–1992) 637
Dušan Spasojević Dimitri A. Stavropoulos. The Irregular Pendulum of Democracy: Populism, Clientelism and Corruption in Post-Yugoslav Successor States 640