Europeanization and statebuilding as everyday practices : performing Europe in the western Balkans
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Europeanization and statebuilding as everyday practices : performing Europe in the western Balkans
(Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding)
Routledge, 2021
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides a critical understanding of Europeanization and statebuilding in the Western Balkans, using the notion of everyday practices.
This volume argues that it is everyday and mundane events that provide the entry points to showcase a broader set of practices of Europeanization in countries outside the EU. It does this by tracing notions of Europeanization in the everyday statebuilding of Kosovo, Europe Day celebrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, urban politics in Tirana, and space and place making in Skopje. In doing so, the book shows that everyday events tell us that as much as it is about changing structures, institutions, and economic models, Europeanization is also about changing behaviours and ideas in populations at large. At the same time, the work shows that countries outside the EU use everyday events to perform their belonging to Europe.
This book will be of much interest to students of European Studies, Balkan politics, statebuilding, and International Relations generally.
Table of Contents
1. Europeanization as statebuilding, statebuilding as Europeanization: Everyday performative acts in the Western Balkans 2. Kosovo: A EUropean state is born 3. Fantasies of Islam and EUrope: The case of public intellectuals in Kosovo 4. Performing Europe through rainbow flags: Of LGBT politics in Pristina 5. Celebrating and fantasizing EUrope in Sarajevo 6. "Tirana will not be Calcutta": European activities and aesthetics in Tirana 7. If only statues could talk!: The making of European Macedonia through Skopje 8. From Western Balkans to the world: Unravelling EUrope and Europeanization
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