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Cultures of Crisis in Southeast Europe: Part 2: Crises Related to Natural Disasters, to Spaces and Places, and to Identities

The history of the Balkan Peninsula of the last two centuries is marked by deep transformations and upheavals. The emergence and disappearance of states, ethnic conflicts and wars, changes of political systems, economic crises, migration movements, and natural disasters are the more visible of such upheavals. Most of them have been experienced as deep crises that forced people to adapt to often radically new situations. All too often crisis management became a permanent way of life. The included essays focus on the cultures of crisis and on the reactions of societies and individuals to them: on their impact on everyday life, on peoples' strategies of coping, on the processes of adaptation, and on peoples' attitudes.

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Cultures of Crisis in Southeast Europe: Part 2: Crises Related to Natural Disasters, to Spaces and Places, and to Identities

The history of the Balkan Peninsula of the last two centuries is marked by deep transformations and upheavals. The emergence and disappearance of states, ethnic conflicts and wars, changes of political systems, economic crises, migration movements, and natural disasters are the more visible of such upheavals. Most of them have been experienced as deep crises that forced people to adapt to often radically new situations. All too often crisis management became a permanent way of life. The included essays focus on the cultures of crisis and on the reactions of societies and individuals to them: on their impact on everyday life, on peoples' strategies of coping, on the processes of adaptation, and on peoples' attitudes.

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Cultures of Crisis in Southeast Europe: Part 2: Crises Related to Natural Disasters, to Spaces and Places, and to Identities

Cultures of Crisis in Southeast Europe: Part 2: Crises Related to Natural Disasters, to Spaces and Places, and to Identities

Cultures of Crisis in Southeast Europe: Part 2: Crises Related to Natural Disasters, to Spaces and Places, and to Identities

Cultures of Crisis in Southeast Europe: Part 2: Crises Related to Natural Disasters, to Spaces and Places, and to Identities

Overview

The history of the Balkan Peninsula of the last two centuries is marked by deep transformations and upheavals. The emergence and disappearance of states, ethnic conflicts and wars, changes of political systems, economic crises, migration movements, and natural disasters are the more visible of such upheavals. Most of them have been experienced as deep crises that forced people to adapt to often radically new situations. All too often crisis management became a permanent way of life. The included essays focus on the cultures of crisis and on the reactions of societies and individuals to them: on their impact on everyday life, on peoples' strategies of coping, on the processes of adaptation, and on peoples' attitudes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783643907912
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Publication date: 05/21/2017
Series: Ethnologia Balkanica , #19
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 6.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Klaus Roth is professor em, at the Institute for European Ethnology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

Asker Kartari is professor of communication at the Communication Faculty of Kadir Has University, Istanbul.

Table of Contents

Editorial 9

Natural Disasters

Environmental Disasters, Climate Change and other Big Problems of Our Times. A View from Southeast Europe Stefan Dorondel, Bucharest 11

Fever at the Border. About the 201l's FMD (Foot and Mouth Disease) Outbreak in Strandza (Bulgaria/Turkey) Olivier Givre, Lyon 33

The Dark Legacy of the South, Traumatic Memory, Silence and Recollection of the 1946-47 Famine Among the Gagauzs and Bulgarians from Bessarabia Miglena Ivanova, Sofia 55

Daily Life of a Displaced Museum. Activities of the Museum of Perast Following the 1979 Earthquake in Montenegro Ana Popovic, Perast 71

Visual Images of Natural Cataclysms in Bulgarian and German 19th and 20th Century Collections of Postcards (Photographs, Cartoons, Press Illustrations) Margarita Kuzova, Sofia 79

Spaces and Places

Land, Labour and Rural Downshifting in Post-Socialist Bulgaria Nevena Dimova, Sofia 101

Life in Liminality. Ethnography of Dispute Settlements on Land in a Post-Totalitarian Situation Nebi Bardhoshi, Tirana 121

Cultural Actions and Reactions of the Localities. The Case of the Mountain Villages of Tzoumerka in Greece of Crisis Konstantina Bada, Ioannina 137

Contested World Heritage: The Ancient City of Nessebar. An Ethnographic Study of the Conflict Ana Luleva, Sofia 151

Project "Skopje 2014" - "À la recherche du temps perdu" Piotr Majewski, Warsaw 167

Crises of Identity

Conversion, Work and Family Relations. Self-identifications Within Some Romanian Rural Roma Groups Raluca Mateoc, Fribourg 185

Gender Identity Crisis in the Urban Kitchen Sengül Ince Burcu Simsek, Ankara 203

Memory and Identity Construction in Turkish and Tatar Communities in Dobruja (Romania) During the Communist Period Adriana Cupcea Cluj Napoca 219

Changing Names: a Way to Cope with Identity Issues in Times of Crisis. The Ottoman Legacy in Croatia & Bosnia and Herzegovina Dunja Brozovic Zadar 239

A Women's Performative Calendar as a Strategy for Dealing with "Absence" Magdalena Sztandara Cracow 257

Narrative Memories of Crisis

From Çorlu to the Syrian Desert and Back. A Young Armenian's Experience Between 1914 and 1918 Dobrinka Parusheva Plovdiv/Sofia 277

A Lifetime of Crisis. The Story of a Dalmatian Peasant in the Mid-20th Century Nataša Miškovic Basel 291

Games of Memory. Personal Narratives of Romanian World War II Veterans Ioana-Ruxandra Fruntelata, Bucharest 309

"These Days, when a Belgrader Asked: 'How Are You Doing?', the Answer Is: 'I'm Waiting'". Everyday Life During the 1999 NATO Bombing Elisa Satjukow Leipzig 323

Bulgarian Karakachans: Building a Narrative of Crisis Gabriela Fatková, Pilsen 343

Addresses of Editors and Authors 363

Instructions to Authors 366

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