Europeanization and statebuilding as everyday practices: performing Europe in the western Balkans

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.

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.

"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 which 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"--