Inside-out and outside-in on dealing with the past in Kosovo

Luci, Nita; Gusia, Linda

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“…In terms of agency, the literature emphasises how Kosovo's citizens are oppressed by the arrangement and unable to exercise popular sovereignty (Rrustemi, 2019;Visoka & Bolton, 2011;Visoka & Richmond, 2017). Luci and Gusia (2019) and Visoka (2019) have considered how groups such as the Self-Determination Movement and feminist activists contest the power structure through formal practices of resistance. But instead of viewing agency as a capacity to act, a relational perspective shows how citizens can exercise it without formal practices-and how ruling actors may have less than they seem (Adams, 1996;Reed, 2017).…”

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Almost sovereign: Kosovo's NEWBORN sculpture and the indeterminacy of the state

Boguslaw

2021

Nations and Nationalism

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In 2008, a giant yellow sculpture of the word 'NEWBORN' was built to celebrate Kosovo's independence. Every year, the designer repaints it to express a new theme, but his messaging is often challenged by anonymous pranks and other interventions. Creating uncertainty over NEWBORN's legitimacy and who has the right to repaint it, these contestations are significant because they echo the uncertainty over the Kosovo state, whose sovereignty is also in dispute.By analysing the relationship between the politics of the sculpture and the politics of the state, the article argues that the disruptions to NEWBORN not only reflect but also reconstitute Kosovo's sovereignty. Although it is generally viewed as the capacity of a state to self-govern, by conceptualising sovereignty as recognition, authority and agency, the article demonstrates how citizens' agency transcends the state and the basis of its rule.

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Almost sovereign: Kosovo's NEWBORN sculpture and the indeterminacy of the state

Boguslaw

2021

Nations and Nationalism

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“…In Prishtina, at UP, the project was led by sociologist Linda Gusia and her colleagues and tied to a 3‐year‐long collaboration between academic and civil society organisations (including the University Program for Gender Studies and Research, Civil Peace Forum Kosovo [Forum ZFD] and Alter Habitus: Institute for Studies in Society and Culture). Their long years of collaborating under the umbrella of what was known as the Memory Mapping project and a more recently developed InsideOut/OutsideIn framework of analysis (Luci & Gusia, ) aimed to create a critical space for interrogating knowledge and practices surrounding Kosovo's recent history. Specifically, it drew from over 10 research‐based “ateliers” with students to interrogate the historical narratives of events memorialised in various commemorative sites.…”

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Epistemic justice and everyday nationalism: An auto‐ethnography of transnational student encounters in a post‐war memory and reconciliation project in Kosovo

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Schwandner‐Sievers

2020

Nations and Nationalism

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This contribution introduces an exercise in epistemic justice to the study of everyday nationalism in post‐conflict, transnational (local and international) encounters. It explores how everyday nationalism, in often unexpected and hidden ways, underpinned a cocreational, educational project involving several local (Albanian) and international (British based) university students and staff collaborating on the theme of post‐war memory and reconciliation in Kosovo. The set‐up resembled a microcosm of transnational social encounters in project collaborations in which the problem of nationalism, typically, is associated with one side only: here, the Kosovars. Guided by Goffman's (1982) social interactionist framework, the study employs selected participants' paraethnographic and auto‐ethnographic reflections of their project experiences and practices after the event in order to trace the everyday workings of mutual assumptions and constructions of a national self and other for all sides involved. In this, it explores how the project participants' asymmetric positioning within a wider, global context of unequal power relations shaped their vernacular epistemologies of belonging and identity. It thereby excavated what otherwise taken‐for‐granted criteria can become relevant in such local/international social encounters as reflected upon and how the enduring power imbalances underpinning these might best be redressed.

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Wilful/Wishful Hopers and the Creation of Kosovo

Hehir

2024

New Perspectives on South-East Europe

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Inside-out and outside-in on dealing with the past in Kosovo

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Almost sovereign: Kosovo's NEWBORN sculpture and the indeterminacy of the state

Almost sovereign: Kosovo's NEWBORN sculpture and the indeterminacy of the state

Epistemic justice and everyday nationalism: An auto‐ethnography of transnational student encounters in a post‐war memory and reconciliation project in Kosovo

Wilful/Wishful Hopers and the Creation of Kosovo

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