Předmět Contemporary Balkans (JMM018)

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Materiál	Typ	Datum	Počet stažení

Sylabus

1. Introduction (18.2.2013) - PhDr.Kateřina Králová, PhD, PhDr. Jan Šindelář Course description and assesment Introduction to readings and course activities Selection of presentations Introduction to Balkan contemporary affairs  2. Myths and stereotypes in the Balkans (25.2.2015) - Mgr. Karin HofmeistrováThe aim of the lecture is to define terms myth and stereotype and to classify main categories of myths and stereotype that we can find in the Balkans while focusing on these which have fully (re)emerged after  1989, e.g . national and religious myths and stereotypes and stereotypical picture of the Balkans in the West.  Which role did myths and stereotypes play in the process of (re)creating national identities in postcommunist era. How did they influence the conflicts in the Western Balkans in the 1990’s? Which were the triggering mechanisms and mobilizing agents that extensively contributed to their activation after the collapse of communism? These questions will be discussed during this lecture. Presentation topics: (Filip Kalánek)Myths and stereotypes in Bosnian warDichotomy West/East, Balkanism and their projection in the former Yugoslavia Reading:Hayden Bakić, Milica. "Nesting Orientalisms: The Case of Former Yugoslavia". Slavic Review 54, č 4 (Zima, 1995), 917-931.(Optional) Gerrits, André a Nanci Adler, eds. Vampires Unstaked, National Images, Stereotypes and Myths in East Central Europe. Amsterdam: Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afd. Letterkunde. Nieuwe Reeks; Deel 163, 1995.  3. Great Ideas: Greater Serbia and Greater Albania (4.3.2015) - Mgr. Kamil Pikal/Mgr. Karin HofmeisterováSince the 19th century, Balkan national revival has been often associated with the so called Greater Ideas, i.e plans to fulfil unification of all national kins.  What stands behinds these concepts - are they just political élites' construct or they have a national wide support? Why have all great ideas in the Balkans failed so far, is it for lack of institutional, national or political potential? Using the theoretical background we can examine and compare two of the "Greater Ideas", the concept of Greater Serbia and Greater Albania. Which role did these concepts play in the conflicts in the Balkans in the 90’s?  Presentation topics:Serbian politics in 1990’s: fight for Greater SerbiaRevival of the concept of Greater Albania in 1990's and 2000's : (Paul Hedon) Reading:Petković, Toni. "Fight for Great Serbia: Myth and Reality." Centre for Southeast Europe Working Paper Series. No. 3 (2009).(Optional) Lukić, Reneo. "Greater Serbia a new reality in the Balkans." The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity. (1994), 49-70.(Optional but recommended :-) Pettifer, James a Miranda Vickers. The Albanian Question. New York: Palgrave McMillan (2007): 95 - 110. 4. Democratic Transition in the Balkans (11.3.2015) - PhDr. Jiří KocianTransition to democracy has been approached by many theories and concepts. With their basic understanding we may reveal the aims of the Balkan politicians during the different phases of transformation and their specifics to applying democratic standards. The aim is to closely analyse the process of transition to democracy in the former Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria, that has started in the late 1980‘s and fully progressed into the beginning of 1990‘s. Presentation topic: (........)Example of a "democratic transition" in practice (choose one Balkan country) Reading:Crawford Beverly. Lijphart Arend. (eds.) Liberalization and Leninist Legacies: Comparative Perspectives on Democratic Transitions (Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, 1997), 1-39.(Optional) Robert M. Hayden. Constitutional Nationalism in the Formerly Yugoslav Republics. Slavic Review, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Winter, 1992), pp. 654-673. 5.  EU and the Balkans (18.3.2015) - PhDr. Jiří Kocian/Mgr. Karin HofmeisterováCountries of the Balkans have constituted a specific group in the process of European association compared to other post-socialist states. Deriving from the experience of more complicated transitional period and wars in the western part of the peninsula, the European association process and relations to the EU have played an important role in their internal policies and constructing regional cooperation with varied success. This session aims at analyzing past experiences with these as a whole and their current implications. Presentation topics:Romania and Bulgaria: Premature accessions?EU with a "stick": Serbian accession policy after 2008 (Edina Bartalová) Reading:Aneta Spendzarova, Milada Vachudova. Catching up? Consolidating Liberal Democracy in Bulgaria and Romania after EU Accession. West European Politics 35 (2012), pp. 39-58.(Optional) Timo Summa, The European Union’s 5th Enlargement - Lesson Learned (Fellowship report, Harvard University, 2008), 5-34. 6. EU and the Greek Crisis (25.3.2015) - PhDr. Kateřina Králová Ph.D.The current Greek crisis and the structural setback have lately received a lot of attention. With SYRIZA winning the elections lately the question of Greek exit and future structure of the EU has been raised again . To be able to analyse and address this problem we have to understand how the EU engaged into the whole negotiations and what are it possibilities to enforce structural and economic reforms.    Presentation topics: SYRIZA and its post-election policy : (Kaan Kalay)Nationalism or internationalism: Greek polarization? Reading:Akis Georgakellos and Harris Mylonas, "Greece goes to the polls and Europe holds its breath", The Washington Post (January 24, 2015).Takis S. Pappas and Paris Aslanidis, "Greek Populism: A Political Drama in Five Acts", in Hanspeter Kriesi and Takis S. Pappas (eds.), European Populism in the  Shadow of the Great Recession (Colchester: ECPR Press, 2005). 7. The Making of a "European City"? Athens in the 20th Century (1.4.2015) - Prof. Dr. Rainer LiedtkeIn this class we will explore the urban development of Athens in the 20th century, in particular from the 1920s to the 1920s - arguing that the developmental path of the city diverges markedly from the ideal of the so-called "European city" and that it depended on a number of factors, such as clientelist social structure, a peculiar economic makeup or family patterns. By looking at Athens prof. Liedtke will try to generalize a little about the urban development of Southern and South-Eastern Europe in general, trying to demonstrate that the concept of "the European city" needs to be amended, if these regions should be included in a European urban identity. Presentation topics: Developing a new city: Skopje after 1963 and 2014 : (Andrea Hauerová) Reading:Maloutas T. (2003) 'The self-promoted housing solutions in post-war Athens'. Discussion Paper Series, 9 (6): 95-110. 8. Group Work - Policy briefs: Regional and Foreign policy of the Balkan countries (8.4.2015) - PhDr. Kateřina Králová Ph.D/ PhDr. Jiří KociánStudents will analyze in groups foreign and regional policy of a Balkan country. They will define its political objectives as well obstacles and other factor influencing its position.   9. Balkan Mafia: Criminalization of Balkan Societies in 90’s (15.4.2015) - PhDr. Jiří Kocián/ Mgr. Karin HofmeisterováUnderlining the negative stereotypes about the Balkans region, widespread problems with organized crime developed in all countries of the peninsula during 1990’s. Using the "opportunity windows", produced by local conflicts and mishandled transitions, these structures became important actors in domestic politics and influenced local development in order to secure their interests. Despite the fact that other countries in democratic transition experienced similar problems, criminal structures in the Balkans exploited specific favorable conditions for their activity. Presentation topics: Balkan wars: Business practice?Organized crime interference in Bulgarian state during the 90’s : (Thetis Athanasia Tsintavi) ReadingStojarová, Věra. "Organized Crime in the Western Balkans" 4th ECPR General Conference University of Pisa, 6-8 September 2007.(Optional) Katherine Verdery. What was Socialism, and What Comes Next? New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 204-228. 10. Transnational (Large-Scale) Contemporary Exhibitions from/on "the Balkans" (22.4.2015) - Maria Alina Asavei  Ph.DIn the recent past (from 2002 to 2014) a considerable number of transnational large-scale exhibitions were dedicated to the concept of "the Balkans". This class focuses on geographically defined large-scale exhibitions from a comparative perspective. We will compare and critically discuss two types of large -scale exhibitions which focus on the Balkans: contemporary art exhibitions and interpretative exhibitions (devoted to historical and ethnographical themes). We will discuss the major exhibitions’ rationale, thematic clusters, reception and the possible ways through which "the Balkans" can be understood in terms of its conjoint history in not in terms of warlike dichotomies. Presentation topics: (Barbora Knappová)Institutionalizing memory of Yugoslav warsResearching and commemorating communism in Romania Mandatory Readings:1. Diane Amiel, "Specifically Balkan Art: Does it Exist?", Third Text, The Balkans, Vol. 21 Issue 2, 2007, Published by Routledge, pp. 137-144.2. Raluca Voinea, "Geographically Defined Exhibitions: The Balkans between Eastern Europe and New Europe", Third Text, (Routledge), Vol.21, Issue 2, 2007, pp. 145-1513. Nicole Haitzinger, "BAL-KAN: The Irritation of Lingua: A Few Notes on the Exhibition "Blood and Honey"-The Future’s in the Balkans", in Artmargins (online), MIT Press, 2003.Available at: http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/archive/277-bal-kan-the-irritation-of-lingua-a-few-notes-on-the-exhibition-qblood-and-honey-the-futures-in-the-balkansq Optional (Advisable) Readings:1. Suzana Milevska, "Balkan Subjectivity as Neither", Third Text, Vol.22, Issue2, March, 2007, pp. 181-188.2. Srdja Pavlović, "Does Balkan Art exists?" Kakanien Revisited, 2003, available at: http://www.kakanien.ac.at/beitr/fallstudie/SPavlovic4.pdf3. Dusan I. Bjelic, The Balkan: Europe’s Cesspool, Agora8 Reader (Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe), 2006 : http://www.agora8.org/reader/Bjelic_Europes_Cesspool.html  11. Religion, churches and the breakup of Yugoslavia (29.4.2015) - Mgr. Karin Hofmeisterová/Mgr. Kamil PikalThe breakup of Yugoslavia accompanied by the greatest military conflict in Europe since the Second World War has been often interpreted in a simplified way as inevitable because of the extreme ethnic and religious heterogeneity of the region. The bloody disintegration of the region has been also understood as a conflict of three dominant creeds: Islam, Catholicism and Christian Orthodoxy. What was the actual role of the churches representing these faiths in the conflicts and in the process of national mobilization? Were religions and religious communities used by nationalist politics in their nationalist and political schemes? Or, conversely, did churches exploit nationalist euphoria and policies in achieving their own goals? Did they play an active or passive role in the 1990’s? The lecture examines the issue focusing mainly on the case of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Islamic Community. Presentation topics: Serbian Orthodox Church and Slobodan Miloševic’s regime: allies or enemies?Islam Community and its role in the process of establishment of Bosniak national identity: (Merve Keskin)  Reading:Perica, Vjekoslav. Balkan Idols. Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, Chapter 10 Religion as Hallmark of Nationhood(Optional) Velikonja, Mitja. "Religious Symbolism in the Balkan Wars 1991-1995". International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 17, No. 1, Studies in the Social History of Destruction: The Case of Yugoslavia (Fall, 2003), pp. 25-40. 12.  Migration in Bosnia and Hercegovina (6.5.2015) -  PhDr. Ondřej Žíla Ph.DThe lecture on migrations in the Balkans will deal primarily with the problematic topic of forced migrations, which struck the region because of the armed conflicts during the 90's. The Western Balkan countries are still struggling with renewal of postwar societies regarding the attempted returns of refugees and internally displaced persons, who left their homes during the wars or immediately after the end of these conflicts. Presentation topics:Internal and external migration: matter of choice? Coming home: Question of repatriation Reading:Jenne, Erin K. "Barriers to Reintegration after Ethnic Civil Wars: Lessons from Minority Returns and Restitution in the Balkans". Civil Wars, Vol.12, No.4 (December 2010), pp.370 - 394.

Literatura

Preliminery reading:RAMET, Sabrina P. Thinking about Yugoslavia: Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. WOODWARD, Susan. Balkan tragedy: chaos and dissolution after the Cold War. Washington D.C.: Brooking Institutions, 1995.

Požadavky

Students will have an opprotunity to actively participate in classes as well to develop their writting, analytical and presentation skills. For this reason the assesments have been set as following: 1) Presentation on a chosen topic (selected by students)  - 20 %Ppt. presentation (max. 15 - 20 minutes)2nd last slide - literature referencelast slide - list at least one question for following discussion2) Essay on the presentation topic (1500 words) - 25%due to 20.5.2015Citation - Chicago stylereference3) Policy brief (600 words) - group work - 20 %Students will write policy briefs on current international and regional politics of a chosen Balkan country. More information in Policy Brief Manual (Coming soon) !! 4) Reading anotations ( one page for each class) - 20 %One page on your reading in form of notes (key words, phrases or simple paragraphs).Answer these three basic points (for every article seperatly):1) Overall summary of the reading (what is the article about)?2) Main arguments of the author/article?3) Your arguments/opinions - Do you agree with the author or not? Explain why.Due Tuesday 20:00 before Wednesday sessions. Send to kralova@fsv.cuni.cz 5) Active participation - 10 %6) Compulsary attendanceMinimum of 80% is need to pass (all of the above mentioned points have to be accomplished)

Garant

PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D.PhDr. Jiří KocianPhDr. Karin Hofmeisterová