MINELRES: Fwd: CfP: Ethnocentrism, Minority Rights and Civil Society in the
Balkans
MINELRES moderator
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Fri Aug 16 17:25:02 2002
Original sender: Lynne Christine Alice <[email protected]>
You are invited to contribute to the following proposed collection (and
would you please circulate this notice to any interested colleagues and
students).
Ethnocentrism, Minority Rights and Civil Society in the Balkans
The collection will offer social science approaches to understanding
the connections and inter-relationships between ethnocentrism, minority
rights and the objective of building an "open" or "civil" society in the
Balkans. Issues of 'identity, 'cultural differences', 'gender' and
'community' will be analysed from historical and sociological
perspectives to facilitate an understanding of the problems facing
Balkan peoples as they engage in social reconstruction. The role of the
relevant international peace-keeping objectives of the United nations,
UNHCR, the OSCE, the European Union and the World Bank, in building a
multi-ethnic civil society will be considered.
So far accepted chapters include:
Ismail Hasani: Title tba - Albanian culture, religion and nationalism
Fadil Maloku: Title tba - multi-ethnic conflict and resolution
Azra Hromadzic and Arancha Garcia: War Rapes and Female Voices: from
individual suffering to collective activism
Venetia Evergeti: Muslim minorities of Western Thrace in the Northern
parts of Greece; social processes of ethnic identity formation within
minority communities
Lynne Christine Alice: Hatred and the politics of nation-building
Lynne Star: Title tba, Contemporary Balkan film-making and
reconstruction of civil society
It is intended that there will be a fully funded seminar to present and
discuss the chapters sometime in the 2003-04 academic year, in Bulgaria.
Offers of papers would be directed to:
Prof Dr Ismail Hasani and Prof Dr Lynne Alice at [email protected]
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