Suchergebnisse

Prispevek pojasnjuje, kako sta termin tranzicija, ki je bil še do nedavnega pogost v političnem in medijskem diskurzu kot tudi v vsakdanjih pogovorih ljudi v Albaniji, nadomestila izraza Evropa in/ali EU. V številnih pogovorih in diskurzih sta pogosto sinonimna, njun pomen pa implicira modernost, družbeni in ekonomski razvoj ter splošno blaginjo. Prek diskurzivnega mehanizma »evroorientalizmov« članek prikaže, kako posamezniki z vizijami in podobami o Evropi in EU pogosto nadomeščajo negotovo in nepredvidljivo sedanjost ter nenehno opredeljujejo zgodovinski in politični položaj Albanije na simbolnem zemljevidu Evrope. Njen položaj kot tudi položaj Evrope sta tako pomnožena in se redefinirata. Pomenska vrzel »Evrope« se polni z dvoumji, ki na eni strani izražajo »željo po Evropi«, na drugi pa »obrambo pred ne-Evropo«. Drsenje med Evropo in ne-Evropo oz. med središčem in obrobjem ustvarja Albanijo kot »relativno lokacijo«, ki v simbolni geografiji nikoli ni trdna in določena, temveč prej spremenljiva. *** Nowadays, the term transition that was seldom used in the political and media discourse as well as in the daily talk of people living in Albania is substituted with the term Europe or EU. According to peoples' conversations and discourses both terms are often used as synonyms and their meanings pertain to modernity, social and economic development and general well being. With the reference to the discursive mechanism of »euroorientalisms« this paper illustrates and explains how peoples' feelings of uncertain and unsure present are replaced with their imaginaries and visions of Europe and EU and how these imaginaries are continuously shifting the historical and political location of Albania on the symbolic map of Europe. The location of Albania as well as Europe multiplies as it is redefined. The meaning of Europe is filled with ambiguities pertaining to the wish of »accession to Europe« on the one hand and the »defence against non- Europe« on the other. Continuous shifting between Europe and non-Europe or between centre and periphery constitutes Albania as a »relative location«, which is never fixed and static but rather changing.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Remitting, Building, and Restoring Contemporary Albania -- Chapter 2. Temporalities of Concrete: Housing Imaginaries in Albania -- Chapter 3. Tirana Quixotic: Literature as Mediator of Imagination and Reality -- Chapter 4. The Winding Routes of Kuçedra: Understanding the Water Futures in Contemporary Albania -- Chapter 5. Cosmic Languages, Babel, and Indo-European Quantum Physics: Emic Linguistics and Myths about Language in Albanian Neo-religiosity -- Chapter 6. "Othering" the Self: The Production of Difference Through Art in Postsocialist Albania -- Chapter 7. Photography and Régime D'historicité: Past, Present, and Future in Two Photographic Albums on Communist Albania -- Chapter 8. On the Road: Albania's Migratory Past, Present, and Future -- Chapter 9. Reimagining Sites of Memory: Conceptualization of Space, Memory, and History of State Violence of Communist Albania -- Chapter 10. Heterotopias of Displacement: The Production of Space in Postsocialist Albania -- Chapter 11. The Age of Understanding: Modernity and Modernization in the Twenty Century's Albania -- Chapter 12. Epilogue.

Introduction / Nataša Gregorič Bon and Jaka Repič -- The (im)mobility of merantau as a sociocultural practice in Indonesia / Noel B. Salazar -- Away, within and forward : wayfaring towards better lives / Aija Lulle -- Rooting routes : (non)movements in southern Albania / Nataša Gregorič Bon -- Tracing roots : Slovenian diaspora in Argentina and return mobilities / Jaka Repič -- Festival organisers as locals-cosmopolitans : triggering movement toward and within home place / Miha Kozorog -- Relational centers in the Amazonian landscape of movement / Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen -- Displaced in the native city : movement and locality in post-war Sarajevo / Zaira Lofranco -- From a tent to a house, from nomads to settlers : constructions of space and place through Romany narratives / Alenka Janko Spreizer -- Movement versus roots? : Ivory Coast from transnational brotherhood to autochthony / Thomas Fillitz -- Epilogue / Sarah Green