Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Student Movements for the Republic of Kosovo is the first volume of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements series that focuses on Southeastern Europe.The series aims to "revitalise the conversation between historians and historical sociologists" on what Charles Tilly called the "dynamics of contention" and on social movements in "the broadest possible sense" (vii).According to the series editors, Atdhe Hetemi's monograph, based on his doctoral thesis (University of Ghent, 2020), published articles (2018, 2021), and a book chapter (2019), 1 "sits at the intersection of research on social movements and nationalism" (vii).Hetemi's main thesis is that the Kosovo-Albanian student movements of 1968, 1981, and 1997 contributed significantly to building an independent state of Kosovo.Hetemi describes his methodological approach as historical institutionalism, focusing on how educational institutions shaped the social movements organized by students and on the role the University of Prishtinë/Priština played in the political emancipation of students and more generally in the political awareness of Kosovo-Albanians (14).In two introductory chapters, the author links the fact that Albanian-language education at university level was established comparatively late in Kosovo to the tense relations between Albanians and Serbs and to negative stereotypes about (Kosovo-)Albanians, which were mainly circulated by academic and political institutions of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (SRS).Drawing on the theories of Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser, and on Denisa Kostovicova's research on education in Kosovo (2005), Hetemi points out how education there has 1 Hetemi, A. 2018."Student Movements in Kosova (1981): Academic or Nationalist?"Nationalities Papers 46 (4): 685-703; Hetemi, A. 2019."Seeing Each Other: Nesting Orientalisms and Internal Balkanism among the Albanians and South Slavs in the Former Yugoslavia" In Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations: Figuring Out the Enemy, edited by A.
Author: Julia Nietsch
Institution: École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4226298151