Europeanization and Statebuilding As Everyday Practices: Performing Europe in the Western Balkans

Europeanization as statebuilding. Statebuilding as Europeanization : everyday performative acts in the western Balkans -- Kosovo : a European state is born -- Fantasies of Islam and Europe : the case of public intellectuals in Kosovo -- Performing Europe through rainbow flags : of LGBT politics in Pristina -- Celebrating and fantasizing Europe in Sarajevo -- "Tirana will not be Calcutta" : European activities and aesthetics in Tirana -- If only statues could talk! : the making of European Macedonia through Skopje -- Conclusion.

Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Europeanization as statebuilding, Statebuilding as Europeanization: Everyday performative acts in the Western Balkans -- The case for a performative turn in EU studies -- Towards critical Europeanization -- EU and the "Western Balkans -- The performative and the everyday -- Structure of the book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Kosovo: A EUropean state is born -- Introduction -- From UNMIK to EULEX ... -- ... To a postmodernist aporia -- The road to independence -- 2008: Kosovo is born -- A new flag is born -- A new national anthem is born -- From "Newborn" to "Young Europeans -- Conclusion: a permanent non-European -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Annex I -- 3. Fantasies of Islam and EUrope: The case of public intellectuals in Kosovo -- Introduction -- Religion, Islam and Kosovo -- Fantasies of Europe -- In the name of Europe -- Conclusion: between secular fundamentalism, paranoid nationalism and orientalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Performing Europe through rainbow flags: Of LGBT politics in Pristina -- Homophobia, pride parades and Kosovo: understanding a paradox -- Pre-war activism in Kosovo and Yugoslavia: what LGBT+? -- Feminist encounters and the first lesbian wedding in former Yugoslavia -- LGBT+, democracy and International Statebuilding -- LGBT+ and Europeanization -- Rainbow flags, and EUrope: a meta-performance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Annex I -- Annex II -- Annex III -- Annex IV -- Annex V -- 5. Celebrating and Fantasizing EUrope in Sarajevo -- Introduction -- International statebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina: building a EUropean state -- European places and spaces -- European activities -- European subjects -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.