Rethinking Serbian-albanian Relations ― Figuring Out 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.

Aleksandar Pavlovic is a researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. He obtained his BA and MA from the University of Belgrade, and received his PhD in Southeast European Studies from the University of Nottingham. He was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies in Graz and New Europe College in Bucharest, and a lecturer at the University of Nottingham.

Gazela Pudar Dra?ko works as a researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. She is actively involved into the policy research and activities of the civil society sector in Serbia, but also in the SEE region.

Rigels Halili studied philology and cultural anthropology at the University of Warsaw, where he also earned his PhD. He was a visiting fellow at the School of slavonic and East European Studies at the University College London from 2007 to 2010. Currently he is the director at the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw.