Description
Book SynopsisThe Risk of War focuses on practices and performances of everyday life across ethnonational borders during the six-month armed conflict in 2001 between Macedonian government forces and the Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA)—a conflict initiated by the NLA with the proclaimed purpose of securing greater rights for the Albanian community in Macedonia and terminated by the internationally brokered Ohrid Framework Agreement. Anthropologist Vasiliki P. Neofotistos provides an ethnographic account of the ways middle- and working-class Albanian and Macedonian noncombatants in Macedonia''s capital city, Skopje, went about their daily lives during the conflict, when fear and uncertainty regarding their existence and the viability of the state were intense and widespread.
Neofotistos finds that, rather than passively observing the international community''s efforts to manage the political crisis, members of the Macedonian and Albanian communities responded with resilien
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"Neofotistos examines the political implications of everyday practices and performances in impressive ethnographic detail, using sophisticated social theory to analyze the material and offering enlightening interpretations of it to shed light on how people are able to live in multicultural communities in times of conflict." * Loring M. Danforth, Bates College *
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Critical Events
2. The Eruption of the 2001 Conflict
3. Living in a Confusing World
4. Performing Civility
5. When the Going Gets Tough
6. Claiming Respect
Epilogue
Appendix: Ohrid Framework Agreement and the 2001 Constitutional Amendments
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
Acknowledgments
