The risk of war : everyday sociality in the Republic of Macedonia / Vasiliki P. Neofotistos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neofotistos, Vasiliki P.

Series:

Ethnography of political violence.

The ethnography of political violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Ethnic relations.

Macedonia (Republic)--Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Macedonia (Republic).

Macedonia (Republic)--Social conditions.

Macedonia (Republic)--Politics and government--1992-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Risk of War focuses on practices and performances of everyday life across ethnonational borders during the six-month armed conflict in 2001 between Macedonian government forces and the Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA)-a conflict initiated by the NLA with the proclaimed purpose of securing greater rights for the Albanian community in Macedonia and terminated by the internationally brokered Ohrid Framework Agreement. Anthropologist Vasiliki P. Neofotistos provides an ethnographic account of the ways middle- and working-class Albanian and Macedonian noncombatants in Macedonia's capital city, Skopje, went about their daily lives during the conflict, when fear and uncertainty regarding their existence and the viability of the state were intense and widespread. Neofotistos finds that, rather than passively observing the international community's efforts to manage the political crisis, members of the Macedonian and Albanian communities responded with resilience and wit to disruptive and threatening changes in social structure, intensely negotiated relationships of power, and promoted indeterminacy on the level of the everyday as a sense of impending war enfolded the capital. More broadly, The Risk of War helps us better understand how postindependence Macedonia has managed to escape civil bloodshed despite high political volatility, acute ethno-nationalist rivalries, and unrelenting external pressures exerted by neighboring countries.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Critical Events

Chapter 2. The Eruption of the 2001 Conflict

Chapter 3. Living in a Confusing World

Chapter 4. Performing Civility

Chapter 5. When the Going Gets Tough

Chapter 6. Claiming Respect

Epilogue

Appendix: Ohrid Framework Agreement and the 2001 Constitutional Amendments

Abbreviations

Notes

Glossary

References

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191) and index.

ISBN:

9781283898782

1283898780

9780812206562

0812206568

OCLC:

822017941