Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations: Figuring the Enemy

Challenging Serbian-Albanian hostility by reinvestigating recent and historical events and discourses, this volume identifies and elaborates common views, ideas and traditions. Scholars and intellectuals from Serbia, Kosovo and Albania put forward critically oriented initiatives and alternatives to shed light on a range of relations and perspectives. Tracing the roots of the two ethnic groups' political divisions, contemporary practices and actions each chapter reconsiders mutually held negative perceptions and seeks to identify elements of a common, shared past. Examples of past and current cooperation are used to offer a critical analysis of Serbian, Kosovar and Albanian society. This interdisciplinary publication brings together historiographical, literary, sociological, political, anthropological and philosophical analyses and enquiries and will be of interest to in sociology, politics, cultural studies, history or anthropology academics working in Slavonic and East European studies.