Local voices and agency in statebuilding

Rrustemi, Arlinda

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“…We will discuss the constitution of independent Kosovo based on the “Comprehensive Proposal for Kosovo Status Settlement” (the Ahtisaari plan), more in a moment. The immediate point is that the attempted reconfiguration is widely condemned as inefficacious (for example, Rrustemi 2019).…”

Section: Case Study: the Rise Of Kosovo’s Left-wing Nationalistsmentioning

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Kosovo’s Competing Nationalisms: Theorizing an Internal Challenge to Rebel Victor Legitimacy

Toman Grief

2023

Nationalities Papers

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This article highlights the significance of Lëvizja Vetëvendosje’s (LVV) left-wing Kosovar Albanian nationalist challenge to the authoritarian and patrimonial nationalist system of Kosovo’s rebel victors. LVV used the political settlement’s own legitimizing metanarrative – that of Kosovar Albanian nationalism – to bolster their own legitimacy while undermining that of post-war elites drawn from organizations active in the conflict of the 1990s. A methodology based on Discursive Institutionalism makes sense of LVV’s position as both a challenger of rebel victors but also as a representative of the same ideological culture that underpins Kosovo’s political culture. There are two key contributions here. Empirically, this study characterizes LVV as a nationalist challenge to the rebel victor parties rather than as a distinctively nationalist or a protest party. The second contribution is theoretical: peacebuilding and political settlements theories must take a more dynamic and agency-sensitive view of legitimacy creation than they have hitherto.

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Section: Case Study: the Rise Of Kosovo’s Left-wing Nationalistsmentioning

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Kosovo’s Competing Nationalisms: Theorizing an Internal Challenge to Rebel Victor Legitimacy

Toman Grief

2023

Nationalities Papers

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Intersubjective legitimacy and the failure of Kosovo’s authoritarian peace

Grief

2023

Conflict, Security & Development

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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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Local voices and agency in statebuilding

Cited by 3 publications

References 1 publication

Kosovo’s Competing Nationalisms: Theorizing an Internal Challenge to Rebel Victor Legitimacy

Kosovo’s Competing Nationalisms: Theorizing an Internal Challenge to Rebel Victor Legitimacy

Intersubjective legitimacy and the failure of Kosovo’s authoritarian peace

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

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