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29/08/2024

Call for papers for the panel
Decentering Balkan Migration Studies and Emerging Mobilities in SEE

For the 22ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE Decentering migration studies
Paris - Aubervilliers and online 1st - 4th July 2025 and online
https://www.imiscoe.org/events/imiscoe-events/2117-22nd-imiscoe-annual-conference

Balkan migration studies have been ‘Balkanized’ for a long time in a variety of ways among which are the focus on refugees and migration crises, e.g. Balkan wars and flows of refugees and IDPs, Balkan migratory route during the Syrian refugee crisis; the peripherization of the Balkan migrations as ‘case studies’ in publications and projects based on western & central methodologies and theories; the emphasis on prioritizing the interest in the Balkans as an origin region and underestimating various other forms of migrations, policies, practices; Balkanizing Southeastern Europe by research divisions mirroring the geopolitical ones, e.g. Western Balkans, Eastern Balkans, Türkiye, Greece.

The objective of this panel is to think through decentering the Balkan migration studies by developing new methodologies and approaches, as well as enhancing comparative studies among Balkan academics, research institution and universities; analyzing emerging and new migration and integration practices and policies, for example, digital nomadism, talent policies, virtual diaspora, think nets, relations between remote work and mobilities, health migration, local citizenship; enhancing a positive understanding of migration as a driver for development, intraregional cooperation and European integration and analyzing interactions among different policy actors including civil society and general public concerning the design and implementation of policies from local to global levels.

The panel seeks abstracts that focus on emerging forms and patterns of migration and mobilities, and their implications for concepts, theories and policies.

The panel envisages the inception of a publication in the form of an edited collective book or a journal special issue.
Prof. Saime Ozcurumez, Department of Sociology, Başkent University, Türkiye
Prof. Anna Krasteva, CERMES (Centre for Refugees, Migration and Ethnic Studies), Bulgaria
Dr.Nermin Oruc, CREDI (Center for Development Evaluation and Social Science Research), Bosnia-Herzegovina

If you are interested in taking part in the panel, please, send a title, 250 words abstract, affiliation and contact details before September 10 to [email protected]; [email protected], [email protected]
The 22nd conference in Paris will be both on site and online. Please, share your preferences.

IMISCOE is the largest European network of scholars in the area of migration and integration. The focus is on comparative research and joint research projects.

24/07/2024

Meeting of Prof. Krasteva and Dr. Marco Puleri from the Editorial Board of Journal Southeastern Europe with prof. Roberta Altin and prof. Tanja Sekulic, guest editors, for discussing the Special Issue "Migration and Solidarity: Securitization vs Activism"

20/07/2024

Prof. Anna Krasteva, SEEU editor-in-chief, discussed with prof. Damir Banović and prof. Vasja Badalic the future special issue on democratic backsliding at a conference in Rome on the same topic.
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26/04/2024

Meeting in Paris between Prof. Anna Krasteva, SEEU editor-in-chief, and Prof. Nebosha Vukadinovic, guest editor of the Special Issue “Environment in SEE: Conflicts, Mobilisations, Policies”. The call for articles will be launched in May 2024.

22/02/2024

🚨 Call for articles🚨

Special Issues ‘Balkan Diasporas: Engagement, Activism, Development’

Edited by Russell King and Nermin Oruc

Aims and scope:

The emergence of diaspora communities as influential agents of change in their home countries has led to a paradigm shift in the global landscape. This special issue aims to provide new empirical evidence for diaspora engagement theories from the Balkans, focusing on the intricate dynamics of diaspora engagement and its profound impact on development in the region. Diaspora policies in the Balkans are still focused too narrowly on diaspora's financial contribution through remittances and investments. This special issue aims to provide a critical discussion of current policies of diaspora engagement and contribute to further discussion and advocacy aimed at revising and upgrading existing diaspora policies in the Balkans. The issue expects to include articles covering a variety of forms on diaspora engagement, such as remittances, investments, philanthropy, and political activism. By examining case studies and analysing existing literature, this special issue will shed light on the strategies and initiatives employed by diaspora communities to promote economic growth, social progress, and political stability in their home countries.

The Journal Southeastern Europe is abstracted/indexed in Web of Science, Scopus and several other data bases. It was rewarded the highest listing, A, by Italy’s Research Quality Committee, Valutazione della Qualitat della Ricerca.

Contact: Nermin Oruc – [email protected]

Timeline:
- March 15, 2024 – submission of abstracts (250 words) and bio (150 words) to Nermin Oruc – [email protected]
- March 31 - feedback on the approval of the proposals
- July 15, 2024 submission of first draft (7,500 – 10,000 words) to editors –
- July 30 – feedback from editors
- September 15 – Submission of articles to the Journal

22/02/2024

Sarah Czerny reviewed the book "Almost, But Not Quite Bored in P**a: An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia" by Andrea Matošević. It's available in SEEU 46.3: https://brill.com/view/journals/seeu/46/3/article-p338_008.xml.

Sarah Czerny received her MA in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh, as well as her MSc by Research and PhD also at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2008, she has worked at the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Rijeka, and has been head of department since 2018. Her field of interest is human/animal studies, where she has been exploring interspecies milk relations. She has written Absent Interests. On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks, Leiden: Brill (in press). She is developing a Minors course at the University of Rijeka on Cultural Ecology, as well as Minor for the yufe Alliance in Urban Ecology.



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"Andrea Matošević, Almost, But Not Quite Bored in P**a: An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia" published on 06 Feb 2023 by Brill | Schöningh.

21/02/2024

Nikolina Židek has reviewed the book "Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations: The History and Legacy of Tito’s Campaign against the Émigrés" written by Christian Axboe Nielsen.

Find out more on SEEU 46.3: https://brill.com/view/journals/seeu/46/3/article-p334_007.xml.

As usual, let's introduce now Nikolina Židek to our audience!
She is adjunct professor at IE University Madrid, School of Politics, Economics
and Global Affairs. She is also member of Research Group Places, marks and
territories of memory, at the Memory Studies Nucleus, Institute for Economic
and Social Development (ides), Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds a PhD in
political science from the Complutense University in Madrid and a Masters
degree in International Studies from the Diplomatic School of Madrid. Before
entering the academia, she was working for 12 years as Croatian professional
diplomat; she was posted in Croatian Embassies in Madrid and Buenos Aires.
notes on contributors.
She has published her work in academic journals in English and Spanish. Her
most recent articles were published in Memory Studies Journal and three
volumes published by Routledge. Her areas of expertise are memory studies,
memory politics, transitional justice, human rights, and the Balkans. Currently, her main research interest is focused on the Croatian post- World War Two diaspora in Latin America and Spain.

"Christian Axboe Nielsen, Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations: The History and Legacy of Tito’s Campaign against the Émigrés" published on 06 Feb 2023 by Brill | Schöningh.

21/02/2024

Katja Kobolt is the author of the book review of "Discourse and Affect in Postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina Peripheral Selves" by Danijela Majstorović.

It's on SEEU 46.3. Read it here: https://brill.com/view/journals/seeu/46/3/article-p327_005.xml.

Katja Kobolt works as a researcher and curator. As part of the interdisciplinary postgraduate programme in literary studies at lmu Munich, she received her PhD (2010) with a thesis on the gendered memory of war in recent post-Yugoslav liter- ature and the politics of canonicity (Frauen schreiben Geschichte(n), Drava, 2010). Dr. Kobolt has taught as a visiting lecturer and assistant professor at Humboldt University in Berlin (2000, 2013/14) and as a guest lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts (2018) and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (2018–2020). She has initiated and realized research, publication, art and cultural projects in collaboration with various institutions, universities, and civil society actors in the post-Yugoslav space and beyond, e.g. the artistic research platform and publications “N*A*I*L*S hacks*facts*fictions” (balkanet e.V. and District Berlin: 2019) and “Corneous Stories: Cosmetics in Society and Time” (City of Women and Academy of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Ljubljana: 2020). As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow (2021-pres- ent) at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, Dr. Kobolt is researching women illustrators in socialist Yugoslavia and the different con- ceptions of childhood and gender in Yugoslav socialist publishing for minors.

"Danijela Majstorović, Discourse and Affect in Postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina Peripheral Selves" published on 06 Feb 2023 by Brill | Schöningh.

20/02/2024

Today we would like to introduce our audience to Prof. Dimitris Serafis, co-author of the article "Dismantling European Values. ‘Refugee Crisis’ and Discriminatory Attitudes in Greek Online News Portals" published in SEEU 46.3.

You can read the article here: https://brill.com/view/journals/seeu/46/3/article-p297_004.xml.

About Dimitris:
Dimitris Serafis is Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He holds a PhD (cotutelle) from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences - Greece and the University of Neuchatel - Switzerland. His research interests include Critical Discourse Studies, Social Semiotics and Multimodality, Argumentation and Rhetoric, with his particular focus being on topics such as migration, racism and hate speech, populism and authoritarianism, and communication in times of crisis. He is the author of the book "Authoritarianism on the front page: Multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece" (2023, John Benjamins). His research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes as well as presented at international conferences.


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19/02/2024

Today we present Piotr Mirocha.
He is author of “Europeanisation and the Dialectics of Crisis and Solidarity
in the Croatian and Serbian Broadsheet Press between 2007 and 2017” that is published on SEEU 46.3. The article is available here: https://brill.com/view/journals/seeu/46/3/article-p271_003.xml.

Piotr Mirocha is a Research Assistant in the Institute of Slavonic Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). His research interests include corpus-as-sisted and semiotic discourse analysis in the study of political discourses of Southeastern Europe, with a special focus on the latest representations of Europe and Europeanness in Croatian and Serbian media. He authored articles and book chapters concerning Croatian and Serbian political discourses of the 19th. 20th and 21st century (early Serbian nationalism, Titoism, European integration).

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Abstract This article explores representations of European solidarity in the aftermath of crisis-like events between 2007 and 2017 in the Croatian and Serbian broadsheet press, as well as their resonance with the discursive construction of Europe and Europeanisation. In order to achieve this goal, c...

18/02/2024

Chiodi has authored together with Chiara Milan the article entitled “Grassroots European Solidarity: Italian Solidarity Movements in the Western Balkans in the 1990s and 2020s and Their Visions of Europe”, which was published on SEEU 46.3.

Let's find out more about Luisa!

Luisa Chiodi has been the director of the think tank Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa since 2006. She holds a PhD in Social and Political Science from the European University Institute of Fiesole (Florence) and a degree in Political Science from the University of Milan. From 2003 to 2008 she was lecturer for the chair of 'Eastern European studies' at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bologna. She coordinated several research projects and is author of publications on civil society and transnational social dynamics.


You can access the article through this link: https://brill.com/view/journals/seeu/46/3/article-p248_002.xml

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16/02/2024

Chiara Milan is the author together with Luisa Chiodi of an article entitled “Grassroots European Solidarity: Italian Solidarity Movements in the Western Balkans in the 1990s and 2020s and Their Visions of Europe” appeared on SEEU 46.3.

Chiara Milan is Assistant Professor of Political Sociology in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore, where she coordinates the Jean Monnet Network “Transnational Political Contention in Europe” (TraPoCo). She has been Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute of Fiesole (Florence).
She has published several articles in international journals and chapters in edited volumes on the topics of social movements and contentious politics, nationalism, ethnicity, citizenship and migration, with a specific focus on Southeastern Europe.
Professor Milan is the author of Social mobilization beyond ethnicity: Grassroots movements and civic activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Routledge, 2020).

Interested readers can access the article through this link: https://brill.com/view/journals/seeu/46/3/article-p248_002.xml

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15/02/2024

Jelena Vasiljevic is the author of the article titled "A Crisis of Political Solidarity in the European Union and the Western Balkans", which is included in the special issue 46.3. It is available here: https://brill.com/view/journals/seeu/46/3/seeu.46.issue-3.xml.

Jelena Vasiljević is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Her background is in political anthropology and citizenship studies. Her expertise and research interests include theories of citizenship, citizenship transformations in the post-Yugoslav states, memory politics, civic engagement, and social movements in South-East Europe. Presently, she is primarily interested in theories and practices of solidarity.

14/02/2024

Federico G. Sicurella, PhD is one of the guest-editors of SEEU's special issue 46.3 focusing on the theme “European Crises or European Solidarity? The Western Balkans as a Testing Ground”.

Federico’s main expertise lies in linguistics and critical discourse analysis. As a consultant for the European Union, he works on information environment analysis, information manipulation threat assessment, and hate speech. After earning an MA in human rights and democracy in Southeast Europe and a PhD in linguistics from Lancaster University, he has taught at universities in Italy and abroad and done academic research on public, media and intellectual discourse, with a focus on the Western Balkans. In 2020 he published a book entitled Speaking for the Nation. Intellectuals and Nation-building in the Post-Yugoslav Space. He has 15+ years of experience in Southeast Europe in various roles, including lecturer, researcher, analyst, reporter and coordinator of educational projects.

Access the special issue here: https://brill.com/view/journals/seeu/46/3/seeu.46.issue-3.xml

13/02/2024

Ljiljana Saric is one of the guest-editors of SEEU's special issue 46.3 focusing on the theme “European Crises or European Solidarity? The Western Balkans as a Testing Ground”.

Ljiljana Šarić is a professor of South Slavic linguistics at the University of Oslo. Her current research relates to cognitive linguistics, semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis. These studies examine verbal prefixes, metaphors, metonymies and symbols in political discourse, multimodal presentation of migration in South Slavic media, and impoliteness in online communication and interpreting.
She leads the research group in charge of the project Spatial Constructions in South Slavic: Semantics of Prefixes and Cognate Prepositions that brings together an international group studying the conceptualization of space in the Slavic languages. Their project focuses on prepositions and verbal prefixes in modern languages; specifically, on prefixed motion verbs and their constructions, and how the semantics of spatial units influence the non-spatial domain.

12/02/2024

Dear SEEU friends,

we are back with the presentation of our journal issues!
Southeastern Europe 46.3 focuses on the theme “European Crises or European Solidarity? The Western Balkans as a Testing Ground”. It was guest-edited by Federico Giulio Sicurella and Ljiljana Šarić.
See below the table of contents, and stay tuned in the next days to find out more about the guest editors and the featured articles and book reviews.
In the meantime, you can access the issue at the following link:
https://brill.com/view/journals/seeu/46/3/seeu.46.issue-3.xml

ToC
ARTICLES-------
- Jelena Vasiljević: “A Crisis of Political Solidarity in the European Union and the Western Balkans Reactive vs. Institutional Solidarity”
- Chiara Milan and Luisa Chiodi: “Grassroots European Solidarity Italian Solidarity Movements in the Western Balkans in the 1990s and 2020s and Their Visions of Europe” [OPEN ACCESS]
- Piotr Mirocha: “Europeanisation and the Dialectics of Crisis and Solidarity in the Croatian and Serbian Broadsheet Press between 2007 and 2017”
- Dimitris Serafis and Stavros Assimakopoulos: “Dismantling European Values ‘Refugee Crisis’ and Discriminatory Attitudes in Greek Online News Portals”
BOOK REVIEWS-----
- Katja Kobolt: “Discourse and Affect in Postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina Peripheral Selves”, written by Danijela Majstorović
- Charles Sabatos: “Osman of Timişoara, Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe” edited and translated by Giancarlo Casale
- Nikolina Židek: “Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations: The History and Legacy of Tito’s Campaign against the Émigrés”, written by Christian Axboe Nielsen
- Sarah Czerny: “Almost, But Not Quite Bored in P**a: An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia”, written by Andrea Matošević

We are looking forward to receiving your feedback and comments.
Thanks for your interest!
The SEEU Team

04/02/2024

POP-CULTURE, POP-POLITICS: THE DIGITAL TURN. INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSES OF THE INTERSECTIONALITY BETWEEN MEDIA, CULTURES AND POLITICS
International Conference, 4-5 October 2024
Organized by the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication of Sofia University in cooperation with the Network for Cultural Studies
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2024

Event date: 4 and 5 October 2024
Event venue: Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Dear Colleagues,
You are kindly invited to contribute to the International conference on “Pop-culture, pop-politics: the digital turn. Interdisciplinary analyses of the intersectionality between media, cultures and politics”, In Memoriam: prof. Ivaylo Ditchev (March 28, 1955 to November 6, 2023)
The conference focuses not just on popular culture in politics and the political in popular culture, but on their transformation as a result of the digital turn. The syncretic phenomenon of “pop culture politics” as the intersection of popular culture and populist politics and the mutual amplification/attenuation of their social effects is as much a product of new media as it is a driver of their growing popularity. By privileging the haste of communication, the short horizon and the lack of hierarchies, digital media question the public space in both politics and culture as an encounter (dialogue, confrontation, opposition) of different ideas and values.
All over the world, we are seeing the fluidisation of borders: Politicians use popular culture repertoires to ingratiate themselves with voters, and pop stars become presidents. Popular culture narratives are used by citizens themselves to criticize power (memes are just such a genre), and power in turn organizes popular art “festivals” and carnivals to legitimize itself and be recognized by citizens. Public institutions invest in the production of heritage, but in this endeavour they are rivalled by ‘ordinary’ citizens committed to amateur historical, local and cultural studies. Traditional benchmarks in both the political and cultural fields seem to have lost their potential, and the need for new landmarks in digital landscapes, where the battle and negotiation between power and citizens is unfolding, is becoming increasingly urgent.
Moreover, the digitalisation of communication puts tools of influence in the hands of politicians on the one hand, but on the other hand it unleashes the democratic potential of citizens, who use the forms of popular culture to ridicule, suspect and expose those in power. In the cultural sphere, digital technologies have succeeded in empowering audiences as authors, and we can now speak of a simultaneity of production and consumption of digital content. It is here that digital technologies are perceived as a condition for a radically democratic utopia of sharing and direct democracy. This leads to a fragmentation of the public space into echo chambers, making it increasingly difficult to permanently join forces to achieve one civic goal or another or to prioritize one political project or another.
The issue focuses on several questions:
• How does the political turn popular culture into a resource for legitimizing, differentiating, and mobilizing citizens?
• How does popular culture become politicised, i.e., an arena for struggles between different civic groups as well as between citizens and the government?
• How do media and digital platforms capture, displace, and produce these popular cultural battles, and more generally, how do they become a condition of possibility for pop culture politics? Are the meanings, forms and modalities of the popular changing in the age of new digital media?
• What debates are there in particular national societies about fake news, amateur science, carnivalesque cyberfolklore, and bootleg nationalism? How does the popular re-subordinate the value order of the spheres of politics and culture, autonomised by the age of modernity, and place them in competition to capture more and more ‘minds and hearts’, merging into a single audience?

Abstract submissions must be in English and comprised of up to 500 words and 5 key words.
The following information should be provided with your abstract:
1. Title of the report and manuscript
2. Name of author
3. Author affiliation and country
4. A short bio in English and Bulgarian (not included in the abstract word count)
5. Active e-mail address of the author
6. File names should follow the format “Author’s initials_Report title”
Timeframe:
Submission of abstracts: March 1, 2024
Decisions for admission: March 15, 2024
Submission of manuscripts: October 15, 2024 (follow the conference website for updates on requirements for authors)
Peer review notes sent to authors: November 1, 2024
Final edits by authors: December 15, 2024
Publishing of Conference collection: December 31, 2024

Abstracts and the required information should be submitted to: [email protected]
Please refer to the attached file “Guide for Authors” for instructions on manuscript requirements.
Follow the conference website for up to date information and important developments:

04/02/2024

📣Call for articles📣for the special issue
" 'More-Than-Human-Sociality' in an Anthropogenic Earth: Balkan Perspectives" edited by Prof. S. Puljar D’Alessio.

In the frame of ecological and environmental humanities, the theme of more-than-human-sociality proposed for the thematic issue evokes Anna Tsing’s call (2013) for a critical description of the world in which humans are everywhere and involved in shaping everything. Still, instead of being the only actors, humans are just one of many. It explores questions regarding the interplay and relations between social and natural life within the local contexts of Southeastern Europe.
Specifically, we aim to investigate how humans and other species come into ways of life through webs of social relations, that is, how different human actions (political decisions, agricultural practices, industrial practices, cultural policies, etc.) relate to nature and other non-humans, thus creating common milieu. In other words, how is social life natural, and natural life social?
We are expecting contributions from diverse subfields of environmental humanities including environmental history, anthropology, cultural botany, geography, political sciences, literary studies, etc.

Guidelines:
- abstract (250 words) and bio (150 words)
- articles – 7,500 – 10,000 words Download Author Instructions

Contacts:
- For conceptual issues – S. Puljar D’Alessio, guest editor ([email protected])
- For submission issues – Dr. Marco Zoppi [email protected]

Timeline:
- March 15, 2024 – abstract and bio
- March 30 - feedback on the approval of the abstracts
- July 15 – submission of the article to the guest editor
- July 30 – feedback from the guest editor
- September 1 - submission of the article to Brill system

author instructions:https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/SEEU.pdf

Please send the abstract to ([email protected]) (cc in the email [email protected])

15/01/2024

📣Call for articles📣 for the Special Issue "Beyond macro politics: contemporary developments and frictions in Kosovo", edited by Dr. Vjosa Musliu, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Dr. Gëzim Krasniqi, Edinburgh University.

Excerpt from the call:
Over the past three decades Kosovo underwent a multi-layered transition: from war to peace; from an autonomous province of Serbia to an UN-protectorate-like entity and eventually to a (contested/unfinished) independent state; from a semi-controlled economy to a free-market economy. These developments have made and reified “Kosovo as a case study” in a variety of disciplines of social sciences and humanities arguably more prominently in peace and statebuilding and international law.

Almost 25 years later since the end of the war, “Kosovo as a case study” continues to be studied in the realm of post-conflict reconstruction, (international) statebuilding and transitional justice. Scholars have argued how such a rendering of Kosovo as inherently conflict-ridden sidelines several inner and everyday socio-political processes that are not directly associated with official and institutional processes of statebuilding and reconstruction. Beyond the EU facilitated dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia in Brussels, the sporadic yet continuous tensions with Serbia in the northern part of the country, the political and legal conundrums of Kosovo to attain formal recognition in the society of independent states, there are numerous frictions, resistance, conflicts and solidarities that are taking place inside Kosovo proper from feminist contestations to the justice system, citizenship, ecopolitics, politics of archive and remembering, to culture and theatre as counter-memory.
We invite contributions that cast a look into the political, economic, socio-cultural and environmental movements and developments in Kosovo. The list includes the following topics: (new) migrations; environmental politics/green energy; young entrepreneurship/gig economy, social welfare; health and social care; (new) party politics; local self-governance / fiscal decentralisation; law, policing and justice (reforms); demography; feminist archives; the politics of theatre and cinematography; diaspora politics and contestation; digitalization/digital nomadism; inter-ethnic q***r solidarities.

The SI is by no means limited to Kosovo. Rather, it seeks to examine various relevant phenomena at the substate (local) level as well as at the suprastate level (i.e. placing them in the wider context of (post)Yugoslav legacies and trends and the cross border and diasporic Albanian culture and identity.

Please send your abstract (300 words) and a short bio (200 words) to [email protected] and [email protected] by February 28, 2024. Accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full article by June 30, 2024. More info on the journal and submission guidelines: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/SEEU.pdf.