Seminar

On  Nov. 27, at 10:00, "Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke" is having a seminar on the Balkans, at Borups Højskole, Frederiksholms Kanal 24 (right around the corner from the institute). The seminar title is:

"Everlasting Transition? The Balkans of the Present"

For more information, click the following link:
http://www.ms.dk/msbalkan/balkanseminar/default.htm

Suggestions for further reading

Studying the state:

Abrams, P. (1988), Notes on the difficulty of studying the state, in Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 58-89.

Gupta, A. (1995), Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State American Ethnologist, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 375-402.
website: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthroCASA/pdf/Gupta/gupta_blurred.pdf

Hansen, T. B. and F. Stepputat (2001), Introduction, in States of Imagination. Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State, Duke University Press, Durham and London.

Communitarianism, identity and history in Bosnia and Herzegovina:

Bougarel, X. (1996), Bosnia and Hercegovina: State and Communitarianism, in D. A. Dyker and I. Vejvoda (eds.), Yugoslavia and After: a Study in Fragmentation, Despair and Rebirth, Addison-Wesley Longman, New York.

Bringa, T. (1995), Being Muslim the Bosnian Way, New Jersey, Princeton University Press.

Bringa, T. (2002), Averted Gaze. Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995, in A. L. Hinton (ed.), Annihilating Difference. The Anthropology of Genocide, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press.

Bringa, T. (2004), The Peaceful Death of Tito and the Violent End of Yugoslavia, in J. Borneman, Death of the Father. An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority, New York, Oxford, Berghahn Books.

Malcolm, N. (1996), Bosnia. A Short History, London and Basingstoke, Pan Books.