Description
Book SynopsisThe edited collection is a fresh contribution to the anthropological, sociological, and geographical explorations of time-space in Southeast Europe and Albania in particular. By delving into various levels of people’s daily lives, such as literature, relation to the environment, the urbanization process, art, photography, trauma and remembering, processes of modernity, the volume vividly portrays various realms that are lived and perceived. It largely builds on the premise that structural resemblances of the past continuously reappear in particular social and cultural moments and seek to restore and build the individual and collective lives in contemporary Albania.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Remitting, Building, and Restoring Contemporary Albania
Chapter 2. Temporalities of Concrete: Housing Imaginaries in Albania
Chapter 3. Tirana Quixotic: Literature as Mediator of Imagination and Reality
Chapter 4. The Winding Routes of Kuçedra: Understanding the Water Futures in Contemporary Albania
Chapter 5. Cosmic Languages, Babel, and Indo-European Quantum Physics: Emic Linguistics and Myths about Language in Albanian Neo-religiosity
Chapter 6. “Othering” the Self: The Production of Difference Through Art in Postsocialist Albania
Chapter 7. Photography and Régime D’historicité: Past, Present, and Future in Two Photographic Albums on Communist Albania
Chapter 8. On the Road: Albania’s Migratory Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 9. Reimagining Sites of Memory: Conceptualization of Space, Memory, and History of State Violence of Communist Albania
Chapter 10. Heterotopias of Displacement: The Production of Space in Postsocialist Albania
Chapter 11. The Age of Understanding: Modernity and Modernization in the Twenty Century’s Albania
Chapter 12: Epilogue
