In March 2012, the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) launched a photo competition called “Lens on the Law- The Right and the Wrong”[1], in which the citizens of Kosovo were called upon to portray their quotidian encounter…
New Technologies of Hope: Cancer, Social Inequality and Biological Citizenship in Post-Socialist Albania
Introduction As post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe grapple to come to terms with shifting grounds of daily lives 20 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, assessments in cancer mortality rates point at a deep divide- yet another (imaginary)…
Dick Marty and the “Polluted Border”- Organ Trafficking and Sovereignty in the Periphery of the European Union
Paper Delivered at the Annual American Anthropological Association Conference, Montreal, November, 2011. Abstract As post-socialist states are asymmetrically incorporated into the EU and its visa-free regimes, “Eastern enlargement” and constantly shifting borders call into question the nature of EU’s…
The Female Body, Communist Governmentality and the “New Wo/Man”: A Review on Klara Buda’s Novel “Chloroform”
What attributes should the “new wo/man” have? What bodily fragments are her/his constitutive parts, which parts are to be tolerated, which ones not? Which ones are doomed worthy? Which ones are to be punished or disciplined? Which ones go to…
Welche Vergangenheit? Welche Geschichte? Ein Kommentar zu Daniel Ursprung’s “Albanien’s blockierte Aufarbeitung der Geschichte” (Neue Zuercher Zeitung vom 05/01/2011)
Endlich mal ein Artikel in der deutschsprachigen Presse, der sich nicht auf Exotika wie Blutfehde (kanun) oder die eingeschworenen Jungfrauen fokussiert, um den post-sozialistischen albanischen Alltag zu beschreiben und analysieren. Davon gibt es leider immer noch zu Hauf. Daniel Ursprung…
