Lehrforschungsprojekt
Humanitäre Landschaften und Bürger*innengesellschaft auf dem Balkan
The project explores how people come together to work towards social change beyond the state and public institutions. Taking into account the fragmented, uneven, and complex character of “civil society” in the Balkans, the project is a kind of archeology of interconnectedness.
The project approaches this fragmented world as a postsocialist, postwar version of a “contact zone” in Pratt’s (1991) terms: a social space where different histories “meet, clash, and grapple with each other”, in the context of asymmetrical power relations, and which stands in “contrast with ideas of community that underlie much of the thinking about language, communication, and culture that gets done in the academy”. This contact zone links the region and its futures with the rest of Europe. Mehr...
