WAITING AND HOPING IN POSTSOCIALIST MACEDONIA: between Yugoslav socialism and the European Union
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The text deals with the changes in Macedonian society after the fall of Yugoslav socialism and the creation of a new independent Republic of Macedonia. The text also shows how Macedonian citizens project their future in a country that has been mired in geopolitical uncertainty for the last thirty years, which was crucial for shaping the past and future development of the country.
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Veselinovič, Jaro. 2021. “WAITING AND HOPING IN POSTSOCIALIST MACEDONIA:”. EthnoAnthropoZoom/ЕтноАнтропоЗум 21 (21), 207-33. https://doi.org/10.37620/EAZ2121207v.
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Velikonja, Mitja
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Zournazi, Mary
2002 Hope: new philosophies for change. Annandale: Pluto Press Australia.
2012 'Neskočnost povojne ‚rekonstrukcije': Sarajevo med upanjem in čakanjem.' Etnolog 22: 129-45.
Bošković, Aleksandar
2013 'Yugonostalgia and Yugoslav Cultural Memory: Lexicon of Yu Mythology.' Slavic Review 72(1): 54–78.
Boym, Svetlana
2001 The Future of Nostalgia. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Burawoy, Michael and Katherine Verdery
1999 Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Danforth, Loring M.
1995 The Macedonian conflict: Ethnic nationalism in a transnational world. Princeton in New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
2010 'Ancient Macedonia, Alexander the Great and the Star or Sun of Vergina: National symbols and the conflict between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia.' In: A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Joseph Roisman in Ian Worthington, ed. Malden, Oxford, and Chichester: Wiley- Blackwell. Pg.: 572–599.
Daskalovski, Zhidas
2011 'The Influence of E.U. Conditionality and Europeanization on the Consolidation of Macedonia.' In: 20 Years after the Collapse of Communism: Expectations, achievements, and disillusions of 1989. Nicolas Hayoz et. al., ed. Bern: Peter Lang. Pg.: 49–83.
Džankić, Jelena
2018 'Structural Mechanisms of Power Reproduction in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro.' Southeastern Europe 42: 83–106.
Fidanovski, Kristijan
2018 'What's in a Name? Possible Ways Forward in the Macedonian Name Dispute.' Slovo 31(1): 18–44
Filak, Manca
2016 'Projekt Skopje 2014: Vpliv mestne prenove na identiteto mesta, socialni spomin in nacionalno zavest prebivalcev.' Master thesis, Deaprtment of ethnology and cultural anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
Gilbert, Andrew et. al.
2008 'Reconsidering Postsocialism from the Margins of Europe: Hope, Time and Normalcy in Post‐Yugoslav Societies’ Anthropology News 48(9): 10–11.
Greenberg, Jessica
2011 'On the Road to Normal: Negotiating Agency and State Sovereignty in Postsocialist Serbia.' American Anthropologist 113(1): 88–100.
Hage, Ghassan
2009a 'Introduction.' In: Waiting, Ghassan Hage, ed. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. Pg.: 1–12. 2009b ’Waiting Out the Crisis: On Stuckedness and Governmentality.’ In: Waiting, Ghassan Hage, ed. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. Pg.: 97–106.
Helms, Elissa
2007 'Politics is a Whore': Women, Morality, and Victimhood in Post-War BosniaHerzegovina.' In: The New Bosnian Mosaic: Identities, Memories and Moral Claims in a Post-War Society. Xavier Bougarel, Elissa Helms in Ger Duijzings eds., Hampshire: Ashgate. Pg.: 235–253.
Hofman, Ana
2015 'Introduction to the Co-Edited Issue "Music, A Fect and Memory Politics in Post-Yugoslav Space”.’ Southeastern Europe 39: 145–164.
Jansen, Stef
2009 'Hope and State in the Anthropology of Home: Preliminary Notes.' Ethnologia Europaea 39 (1): 54–60.
2015 Yearnings in the meantime: ’normal lives’ and the state in a Sarajevo state complex. New York in Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Jezernik, Božidar
2002 'Macedonians: Conspicuous by their absence.' EthnoAntropoZoom 2: 1–20.
Karakasidou, Anastasia N.
1997 Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870- 1990. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Kuhar, Metka and Herwig Reiter
2012 'Frozen Transitions? Young People in Former Yugoslavia.' In: 1989: Young People and Social Change after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Carmen Leccardi et al. eds. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.
Malkovski Gjorgji, Jordan Mihajlovski and Cone Krstevski
1996 Kriva Palanka i Krivopalanečko niz istorijata. Kriva Palanka: Sobranie na opština.
Monova, Miladina
2014 '"We are all chasing after the euro": Labour, calculations, and ideas of well-being among tobacco growers in a Macedonian town.' In: Social Practices and Local Configurations in the Balkans, Nedi Bardoshi et. al. eds. Tirana: UET Press. Pg.: 115-129.
2015a 'When the household meets the state: Ajvar cooking and householding in postsocialist Macedonia.' In: Oikos and market: explorations in self-sufficiency after socialism, Stephen Gudeman, ed. New York: Berghahn. Pg.: 77-100.
2015b '"We don't have work. We just grow a little tobacco.": household economy and ritual effervescence in a Macedonian town.', In: Economy and ritual: studies of postsocialist transformations, Stephen Gudeman, ed. New York: Berghahn. Pg.: 166-191.
Nedelkov, Ljupcho
2011 'The Issue Of The Identity Of The Macedonian People: The Symbolic Code for a Personal and Collective Identity.' EthnoAnthropoZoom 9: 37–55.
Neofotistos, P. Vasiliki
2012 The risk of war: Everyday sociality in the Republic of Macedonia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
2014 'Bulgarian passports, Macedonian identity the invention of E.U. citizenship in the Republic of Macedonia.' EthnoAnthropoZoom 10: 37-53.
Petrović, Tanja
2016 'Towards an Affective History of Yugoslavia.' Filozofija i društvo 27(3): 504–520.
Pettit, Harry in Wiebe Ruijtenberg
2019 'Migration as Hope and Depression: Existential Im/Mobilities in and beyond Egypt.' Mobilities 14(5): 730–44.
Potkonjak, Sanja, in Tea Škokić
2013 '»In the World of Iron and Steel«: On the Ethnography of Work, Unemployment and Hope.' Narodna Umjetnost 50 (1): 74–95.
Poulton, Hugh
2000 Who are the Macedonians? London: Hurst and Company.
Ramet, Sabrina P.
2017 'Macedonia's Post-Yugoslav Reality: Corruption, Wiretapping, and Stolen Elections.' In: Building Democracy in the Yugoslav Successor States. Sabrina P. Ramet, Christine M. Hassenstab and Ola Listhaug, eds.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pg.: 287–320.
Risteski, Ljupčo and Armanda Kodra Hysa
2014 'Strategies for Creating the Macedonian State and Nation and Rival Projects Between 1991 and 2012.' In: Strategies of symbolic Nation-building in southeastern Europe. Pal Kolsto, ed. Oslo: Ashgate. Pg.: 165–200.
Schwartz, Jonathan M.
1996 Pieces of Mosaic: An Essay on the Making of Macedonia. Højberg: Intervention
Press.Thiessen, Ilka
1999 'T'Ga za Jug - Waiting for Macedonia The Changing World of Young Female Engineers in the Republic of Macedonia.' PhD Disertation, London School of Economics, University of London.
Velikonja, Mitja
2008 Titostalgija: študija nostalgije po Josipu Brozu. Ljubljana: Mirovni inštitut.
Zournazi, Mary
2002 Hope: new philosophies for change. Annandale: Pluto Press Australia.