| Description |
1 online resource (173 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Europeanization as statebuilding, Statebuilding as Europeanization: Everyday performative acts in the Western Balkans -- The case for a performative turn in EU studies -- Towards critical Europeanization -- EU and the ""Western Balkans -- The performative and the everyday -- Structure of the book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Kosovo: A EUropean state is born -- Introduction -- From UNMIK to EULEX ... -- ... To a postmodernist aporia |
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The road to independence -- 2008: Kosovo is born -- A new flag is born -- A new national anthem is born -- From ""Newborn"" to ""Young Europeans -- Conclusion: a permanent non-European -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Annex I -- 3. Fantasies of Islam and EUrope: The case of public intellectuals in Kosovo -- Introduction -- Religion, Islam and Kosovo -- Fantasies of Europe -- In the name of Europe -- Conclusion: between secular fundamentalism, paranoid nationalism and orientalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Performing Europe through rainbow flags: Of LGBT politics in Pristina |
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Homophobia, pride parades and Kosovo: understanding a paradox -- Pre-war activism in Kosovo and Yugoslavia: what LGBT+? -- Feminist encounters and the first lesbian wedding in former Yugoslavia -- LGBT+, democracy and International Statebuilding -- LGBT+ and Europeanization -- Rainbow flags, and EUrope: a meta-performance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Annex I -- Annex II -- Annex III -- Annex IV -- Annex V -- 5. Celebrating and Fantasizing EUrope in Sarajevo -- Introduction -- International statebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina: building a EUropean state |
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European places and spaces -- European activities -- European subjects -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. ""Tirana will not be Calcutta"": European activities and aesthetics in Tirana -- Introduction -- Albania: a rocky road from communism -- City space as a projected European space -- Staging and performing Europe -- Lecturing Europe -- Imagining Europe via orientalizing non-Europe -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- 7. If only statues could talk!: The making of European Macedonia through Skopje -- Introduction -- Of the many Macedonias -- EU and (North) Macedonia |
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Skopje 2014"" and the making of (North) Macedonia -- Performing and distorting EUrope -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8. From Western Balkans to the world: Unravelling EUrope and Europeanization -- Of Europeanization -- Europeanization is not necessarily a force for good in and of itself -- Europeanization is too broad, and yet too narrow of a concept -- EUrope and Europeanization are both pervasive and ubiquitous, yet permanently deferred -- EUrope and Europeanization are given as teleological -- Of EU-Western Balkans relations -- Of Europe: performed, staged, simulated -- Staging |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Simulating |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000393651 |
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1000393658 |
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