Everyday life in the Balkans / edited by David W. Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Montgomery, David W., 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Balkan Peninsula--Social life and customs.

Balkan Peninsula.

Physical Description:

xiv, 401 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Seeing everyday life in the Balkans / David W. Montgomery

The (historical) context of everyday life

Early Balkan everyday life / Andrew Wachtel

Crimes and misdemeanors : scenes of everyday life among the gendarmerie in Ottoman Macedonia, ca. 1900 / Ipek K. Yosmaoglu

It's what's inside that counts : furnishing the modern in the apartments of socialist Yugoslavia / Patrick Hyder Patterson

Consuming lives: inside the Balkan kafene / Mary Neuburger

Burek, da! sociality, context, and idiom in Macedonia and beyond / Keith Brown

The home(s) of everyday life

Kinship and safety nets in Croatia and Kosovo / Carolin Leutloff-Grandits

"This much we know" : domestic remedies and quotidian tricks since Tito's Bosnia / Larisa jasarevic

Femininity, fashion, and feminism: women's activists in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Elissa Helms

That black cloud upon our family : everyday life of gays and lesbians in Slovenia / Roman Kuhar

Between past and future : young people's strategies for living a "normal life" in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina / Monika Palmberger

"But where else could they go?" the state, family, and private care in a Bosnian town / Azra Hromadzic

The livelihoods of everyday life

Cars, coffee, and "the crisis" : Balkan migration in precarious times / Ana Croegaert

"We don't belong anywhere" : everyday life in a Serbian town where immigrants are former refugees / Mila Dragojevic

Neoliberal spaces of immorality : the creation of a Bulgarian land market and "land-grabbing" foreign investors / Deema Kaneff

Making ends meet in a rural community : the life and times of Aleksandar Zivojinovic / Andrew Konitzer

A lot of sweat, a little bit of fun, and not entirely "hard men": worker's masculinity in the Uljanik shipyard / Andrea Matosevic

Perceptions of Balkan belonging in postdictatorship Greece / Daniel M. Knight

The politics of everyday life

Neither the Balkans nor Europe : the "where" and "when" in present-day Albania / Natasa Gregoric Bon

Growing up in Montenegro : a story of transformation and resistance / Jelena Dzankic

War criminals, national heroes, and transitional justice in Macedonia / Vasiliki P Neofotistos

A lively border : Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia on the shifting banks of the Drina / Carna Brkovic and Stef Jansen

"Politicians are all crooks!" : everyday politics in Bulgaria / Emilia Zankina

Life among statues in Skopje / Ilka Thiessen

The religion(s) of everyday life

"The hardest time was the time without morality" : religion, transition, and social navigation in Albania / David W. Montgomery

Ramadan in Prizren, Kosovo / Frances Trix

The cross at the crossroads : the feast of slava between faith and custom / Milica Bakic-Hayden

Boundaries of freedom, boundaries of responsibility : everyday religious life of Croatian Catholic women / Slavica Jakelic

Religious boundaries, komshuluk, and sharing sacred spaces in Bulgaria / Magdalena Lubanska

The everyday of religion and politics in the Balkans / Albert Doja

The art of everyday life

Unintentional memorials : everyday places of memory in postransition Bucharest / Alyssa Grossman

Between east and west, folk and pop, state and market : changing landscapes of bulgarian folk music / Carol Silverman

Mothers in Balkan film / Yana Hashamova

Memories of foreign love / Ervin Hatibi

The sound of charcoal rustling : drawing from life in Belgrade / Marko Zivkovic

Postface / David W. Montgomery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Everyday life in the Balkans

ISBN:

9780253026170

0253026172

9780253038173

0253038170

OCLC:

1057245150