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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Seeing Everyday Life in the Balkans
Section I: The (Historical) Context of Everyday Life
2. Early Balkan Everyday Life
3. Crimes and Misdemeanors: Scenes of Everyday Life among the Gendarmerie in Ottoman Macedonia, ca. 1900
4. It’s What’s Inside That Counts: Furnishing the Modern in the Apartments of Socialist Yugoslavia
5. Consuming Lives: Inside the Balkan Kafene
6. Burek, Da! Sociality, Context, and Idiom in Macedonia and Beyond
Section II: The Home(s) of Everyday Life
7. Kinship and Safety Nets in Croatia and Kosovo
8. “This Much We Know”: Domestic Remedies and Quotidian Tricks since Tito’s Bosnia
9. Femininity, Fashion, and Feminism: Women’s Activists in Bosnia and Herzegovina
10. That Black Cloud upon Our Family: Everyday Life of Gays and Lesbians in Slovenia
11. Between Past and Future: Young People’s Strategies for Living a “Normal Life” in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
12. “But Where Else Could They Go?” The State, Family, and Private Care in a Bosnian Town
Section III: The Livelihoods of Everyday Life
13. Cars, Coffee, and “The Crisis”: Balkan Migration in Precarious Times
14. “We Don’t Belong Anywhere”: Everyday Life in a Serbian Town Where Immigrants Are Former Refugees
15. Neoliberal Spaces of Immorality: The Creation of a Bulgarian Land Market and “Land-Grabbing” Foreign Investors
16. Making Ends Meet in a Rural Community: The Life and Times of Aleksandar Živojinović
17. A Lot of Sweat, a Little Bit of Fun, and Not Entirely “Hard Men”: Worker’s Masculinity in the Uljanik Shipyard
18. Perceptions of Balkan Belonging in Postdictatorship Greece
Section IV: The Politics of Everyday Life
19. Neither the Balkans nor Europe: The “Where” and “When” in Present-Day Albania
20. Growing Up in Montenegro: A Story of Transformation and Resistance
21. War Criminals, National Heroes, and Transitional Justice in Macedonia
22. A Lively Border: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia on the Shifting Banks of the Drina
23. “Politicians Are All Crooks!”: Everyday Politics in Bulgaria
24. Life among Statues in Skopje
Section V: The Religion(s) of Everyday Life
25. “The Hardest Time Was the Time without Morality”: Religion and Social Navigation in Albania
26. Ramadan in Prizren, Kosovo
27. The Cross at the Crossroads: The Feast of Slava between Faith and Custom
28. Boundaries of Freedom, Boundaries of Responsibility: Everyday Religious Life of Croatian Catholic Women
29. Religious Boundaries, Komshuluk, and Sharing Sacred Spaces in Bulgaria
30. The Everyday of Religion and Politics in the Balkans
Section VI: The Art of Everyday Life
31. Unintentional Memorials: Everyday Places of Memory in Post-Transition Bucharest
32. Between East and West, Folk and Pop, State and Market: Changing Landscapes of Bulgarian Folk Music
33. Mothers in Balkan Film
34. Memories of Foreign Love
35. The Sound of Charcoal Rustling: Drawing from Life in Belgrade
Postface
Index
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