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This book provides a critical understanding of Europeanization and
statebuilding in the Western Balkans, using the notion of everyday
practices. This volume argues that it is everyday and mundane
events that provide the entry points to showcase a broader set of
practices of Europeanization in countries outside the EU. It does
this by tracing notions of Europeanization in the everyday
statebuilding of Kosovo, Europe Day celebrations in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, urban politics in Tirana, and space and place making
in Skopje. In doing so, the book shows that everyday events tell us
that as much as it is about changing structures, institutions, and
economic models, Europeanization is also about changing behaviours
and ideas in populations at large. At the same time, the work shows
that countries outside the EU use everyday events to perform their
belonging to Europe. This book will be of much interest to students
of European Studies, Balkan politics, statebuilding, and
International Relations generally.
This book provides a critical understanding of Europeanization and
statebuilding in the Western Balkans, using the notion of everyday
practices. This volume argues that it is everyday and mundane
events that provide the entry points to showcase a broader set of
practices of Europeanization in countries outside the EU. It does
this by tracing notions of Europeanization in the everyday
statebuilding of Kosovo, Europe Day celebrations in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, urban politics in Tirana, and space and place making
in Skopje. In doing so, the book shows that everyday events tell us
that as much as it is about changing structures, institutions, and
economic models, Europeanization is also about changing behaviours
and ideas in populations at large. At the same time, the work shows
that countries outside the EU use everyday events to perform their
belonging to Europe. This book will be of much interest to students
of European Studies, Balkan politics, statebuilding, and
International Relations generally.
Despite calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, scholars who
come from conflict-affected societies remained marginalised,
excluded from the examination of the politics and impacts of
liberal interventionism. This edited volume gives local scholars a
platform from which they critically examine different aspects of
liberal interventionism and statebuilding in Kosovo. Drawing on
situational epistemologies and grounded approaches, the chapters in
this book interrogate a wide range of themes, including: the
politics of local resistance; the uneven relationship between
international statebuilders and local subjects; faking of local
ownership of security sector reform and the rule of law; heuristic
and practical limits of interventionism, as well as the subjugated
voices in statebuilding process, such as minorities and women. The
book finds that the local is not antidote to the liberal, and that
local perspectives are not monolithic. Yet, local critiques of
statebuilding do not seek to generate replicable knowledge; rather
they prefer generating situational and context-specific knowledge
be that to resolve problems or uncover the unresolved problems. The
book seeks to contribute to critical peace and conflict studies by
(re)turning the local turn to local scholars who come from
conflict-affected societies and who have themselves experienced the
transition from war to peace. This book is essential reading for
students and scholars of peace- and state-building, conflict
studies and international relations.
Despite calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, scholars who
come from conflict-affected societies remained marginalised,
excluded from the examination of the politics and impacts of
liberal interventionism. This edited volume gives local scholars a
platform from which they critically examine different aspects of
liberal interventionism and statebuilding in Kosovo. Drawing on
situational epistemologies and grounded approaches, the chapters in
this book interrogate a wide range of themes, including: the
politics of local resistance; the uneven relationship between
international statebuilders and local subjects; faking of local
ownership of security sector reform and the rule of law; heuristic
and practical limits of interventionism, as well as the subjugated
voices in statebuilding process, such as minorities and women. The
book finds that the local is not antidote to the liberal, and that
local perspectives are not monolithic. Yet, local critiques of
statebuilding do not seek to generate replicable knowledge; rather
they prefer generating situational and context-specific knowledge
be that to resolve problems or uncover the unresolved problems. The
book seeks to contribute to critical peace and conflict studies by
(re)turning the local turn to local scholars who come from
conflict-affected societies and who have themselves experienced the
transition from war to peace. This book, voted one of the top 10
books of 2020 by International Affairs, is essential reading for
students and scholars of peace- and state-building, conflict
studies and international relations.
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