Throughout the 1990s, pictures of Albanian youngsters studying in
makeshift classrooms became a symbol of Serbian state repression in
Kosovo. The establishment of so-called parallel education in
private houses and businesses in Kosovo became part of Albanian
resistance to Serbian rule and an important gesture towards the
existence of the self-declared Albanian shadow state in Kosovo.
This book explores the construction of the nation identity of
Kosovo Albanians after Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power and the
abolition of Kosovo's autonomy through the lends of the province's
educational system. The text is woven around the story of ethnic
segregation in Kosovo's education system and its impact on the
emergence of exclusive notions of nation and homeland among the
Albanian and Serbian youth in segregated schools in the province
during the 1990s. While focusing on the issue of education in
post-autonomy Kosovo, this monograph critically explores the wider
contest of the Albanian resistance, including the emergence of the
parallel state as an integral component of non-violent resistance.
Ultimately, this book provides an insight not only into events that
led to the bloodshed in Kosovo in the late 1990s, but also show
that the legacy of segregation is one of the most major challenges
the international community faces in its efforts to establish an
integrated multiethnic society in the province.
Of interest to academics and students of Albanian culture and
Balkan history, this book is an important advance in research on
one of the most tragic European conflicts of recent times. ""
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