Series of Books in Theories of Identities
Collection of Essays on Theory and Practice of the Gender Struggles in the Western Balkans
It is our great pleasure to present the publication Collection of Essays on Theory and Practice of the Gender Struggles in the Western Balkans.
This publication is part of the project “Gender Equality Education for Practitioners: From Theory to Policy Implementation”, funded by the Swedish Institute and implemented by ISSHS in collaboration with the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation.
Inside, you will find essays authored by our participants, as well as video and photo visualizations highlighting the key findings from their work.
Edited by: Viktorija Borovska and Kalina Lechevska
Authors:
Mjellma Vula
Aleksandra Filipova
Irena Majko
Xhoelda Shelqetja
Simona Mladenovska
Tereza Vujošević
Irina (Solaja) Jankovic
Ivana Cilevska
Fabiola Rukaj
Gordana Vukov Ciganjik
Marta Stevkovska
Maja Atanasova
Ana Bojchevska Mitrevska
Iva Mihajlovska
Dragana Božić
Radmila Jovanovska
Angelina Stanojoska
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Envisaging EU Enlargement in an Era of a Newly Rediscovered Notion of European Geopolitics on a Digital Planetary Scale
It is our pleasure to present to you the publication titled ‘Envisaging EU Enlargement in an Era of a Newly Rediscovered Notion of European Geopolitics on a Digital Planetary Scale.’ This publication is a product of the ‘Alliances for EU’ project (https://www.alliancesforeu.org/), supported by the international Visegrad Fund and co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea.
In the publication, you will find papers by Gábor Egry, Spasimir Domaradzki, Michal Vit, Juraj Marušiak, Katerina Kolozova, Dimitar Vatsov, Veronika Dimitrova, Ljubomir Donchev, Valentin Valkanov, Milena Iakimova, and Stefan Detchev.
Tabel of Content:
Gábor Egry
Historical Reconciliation: Hungarian Lessons
Spasimir Domaradzki
EU Enlargement and Geopolitics: Is it Relevant Today?
Michal Vit
In Search of Principles of Visegrad (Economic) Cooperation and its Inspiration for Bilateral Relations between North Macedonia and Bulgaria
Juraj Marušiak
Slovakia and North Macedonia: A Comparison of Experiences in Resolving Neighbourly Disputes
Katerina Kolozova
For a Geopolitical Instead of Technocratic Approach to the EU Enlargement Process: Addressing the Aftermath of the Lifted Bulgarian Veto
Dimitar Vatsov, Veronika Dimitrova, Ljubomir Donchev, Valentin Valkanov, Milena Iakimova
The Pro-Russian Propaganda Machine in Bulgaria, and the Russian Style Representations of North Macedonia
Stefan Detchev
Deportations from Macedonia and their Place in Bulgarian-Macedonian Relationships
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AVENUES OF COOPERATION PROCEEDINGS
The Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Skopje, in conjunction with the Visegrad Fund and the Balkan Trust for Democracy-The German Marshall Fund of the United States, is proud to present the proceedings from the Avenues of Cooperation conference, which was dedicated to finding a solution to the cultural conflict between the Macedonian and the Bulgarian state related to their respective nation-building narratives which has caused a stalemate in the Union’s enlargement process blocking the next step of North Macedonia’s accession to the European Union. The “Avenues of Cooperation Proceedings” present in depth analyses on these issues and include contributions from: Gábor Egry, Spasimir Domaradzki, Costas Douzinas, Marta Szpala, Michal Vit, Ljupcho Petkovski, Stefan Detchev, and Katerina Kolozova. Through various historical (with an emphasis on exploring the past experiences and conflicts/conflict resolutions of other Visegrad countries), cultural, and political analyses, based largely on the contributors’ own backgrounds, new, practical and concrete ways of moving forward past the deadlock between Macedonia and Bulgaria are presented from multiple perspectives all coalescing around a shared goal. Thus, these proceedings offer solutions and recommendations to long standing cultural, national, historical and political disputes between the two nations with the aim of bettering relations, increasing cooperation, and, crucially, unblocking the EU enlargement process and creating models that would allow for the prevention of any such situations happening again in the future.
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Below you can find a list of titles from our Series of Books in Theories of Identities.
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The Exodus of the Macedonians from Greece: Women's Narratives about WWII and their Exodus (Second Edition)
The Lived Revolution: Solidarity with the Body in Pain as the New Political Universal (Second Revised Edition)
Conversations with Judith Butler: Proceedings from the Seminar “Crisis of the Subject,” held in Ohrid, May 11-14th, 2000 / Разговори со Џудит Батлер: Записи од семинарот „Криза на субјектот“ одржан во Охрид, 11-13 Мај 2000.
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Conversations with Judith Butler: Proceedings from the Seminar “Crisis of the Subject,” held in Ohrid, May 11-14th, 2000 / Разговори со Џудит Батлер: Записи од семинарот „Криза на субјектот“ одржан во Охрид, 11-13 Мај 2000.
Editors: Katerina Kolozova and Žarko Trajanoski
Translators: Rodna Ruskovska and Žarko Trajanoski
Language: Macedonian and English
FIRST EDITION:
Publisher: Research Center in Gender Studies, Skopje and Euro-Balkan Press
Year of Publication: 2001
Pages: 133 (70 pages in Macedonian; 66 pages in English)
ISBN: 9989-9600-1-1
Size: 230X165X6
Print run: 500
SECOND EDITION:
Publisher: Research Center in Gender Studies, Skopje and Euro-Balkan Press
Year of Publication: 2007
Pages: 199 (102 pages in Macedonian; 97 pages in English)
ISBN: 9989-136-50-5
Size: ???
Print run: 300
Price: Paperback 20 Euro (includes the cost of shipping) | E-book 5 Euro
The book contains the discussions and three of the papers (by Judith Butler, Katerina Kolozova, and Žarko Trajanoski) that were presented at the Seminar “Crisis of the Subject.” The transcripts are not authorized by Judith Butler.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Judith Butler’s Lecture: Agencies of Style for a Liminal Subject
Discussion I (following the lecture)
Katerina Kolozova: Aporetikē of the Real
Žarko Trajanoski: The Agony of the Unitary Subject of Experience
Discussion II (moderated by Judith Butler)
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Hieroglyphs of Jealousy
Author: Jelisaveta Blagojević
Language: English
Publisher: Euro-Balkan Press
Year of Publication: 2008
Pages: 132
ISBN: 978-9989-136-58-0
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Print run: 300
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When we relate love to jealousy and jealousy to love, we should be aware that there is a constant wish, or even desire, to “save” love from jealousy. Moreover, that the notion of jealousy has negative connotations: that jealousy is something that can wound the other; that jealousy is something one should be ashamed of (perhaps, being aggressive); that jealousy is something one should be fearful of (perhaps, being excluded); and what I consider as the most important – that because of jealousy one might suffer from being subject/ed to a kind of affection that is considered as “craziness,” but not any kind of craziness – the “craziness” that is at the same time craziness and banality. Being common. Being a common being.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jealousy makes us re-think subject/vity
Jealousy, Love, Possession
Subject/ivity, heart, and jealousy
Love as oikonomia
Jealousy as strategy and jealousy as a theme
Paradox of love
What is a singular being?
Jealousy as a problem and jealousy as an aporia
Chapter I: Jealousy as a problem
Love understood as knowledge (of love)
Interruption, first case
The Postcard
Chapter II: Jealousy as an aporia
Thinking as translating: Writing as a labour of pharmakon
Who is jealous in this story?
Conclusion
Irreplaceability
“Love-mare”
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
The Lived Revolution: Solidarity with the Body in Pain as the New Political Universal (second revised edition)
Author: Katerina Kolozova
Language: English
FIRST EDITION:
Publisher: Euro-Balkan Press
Year of Publication: 2010
Pages: 234
ISBN: 978-9989-136-69-6
Size: ???
Print run: 300
SECOND EDITION:
Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje
Year of Publication: 2016
Pages: 234
ISBN: 978-608-4755-10-4
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The book brings back the interest in the “radical concepts” in politics to the intellectual debate after 6 years. Kolozova builds on the hybridization of the epistemic stance of “radical concepts” inspired by Laruelle'`s “non-philosophy” and “non-Marxism” as well as the “realism” inspired by Zizek and Badiou. Kolozova explores these terms through the lenses of Judith Butler`s politics of grief and “identification with the suffering itself.” Radical concepts, the political vision and the theory based on them, are always already succumbing to the "Lived" (Laruelle), to the singularity of the Event (Badiou), to the encounter with the "kernel of the Real" (Zizek) conditioning a political horizon and the grand and small political narratives taking place within it. The thesis of the book is that the instances of the "lived," the "event" or the "Real" can be inherently inter-connected by virtue of the category of the "experience" which is an instance of the sheer lived, the bare being subjected to an occurrence which is always already an instance of trauma.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Thinking the Political by Way of “Radical Concepts"
Chapter 2: The Location of Resistance: Persistence as its Nest
Chapter 3: Sheer Life Revolting: The Concept of Life and its PoliticalMeaning in Spinoza, Agamben, and Butler
Chapter 4: Solidarity in Suffering: A Possibility for a New Political Universal
Chapter 5: Violence: The Indispensible Condition of the Law (and the Political)
Chapter 6, or the Addendum: The Project of Non-Marxism: The Political as Thought-Force
Notes
Bibliography
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The Exodus of the Macedonians from Greece: Women's Narratives about WWII and their Exodus (Second Edition)
Authors: Lidija Stoyanovik-Lafazanovska and Ermis Lafazanovski
Language: English
Publisher: Euro-Balkan Press
Year of Publication: 2008
Pages: 220
ISBN: 978-9989136597
Size: ???
Print run 300
Price: Paperback 20 Euro (includes the cost of shipping)
Women are historically invisible, socially and politically feeble, culturally mute and insignificant. These are the signals that traditional male ideology sends. However in spite of their historical invisibility, in times of stress, war and crisis, women carry the burden of truth - the kind of truth that neither the victors nor the defeated write. The truth written by those responsible for continuation and salvation of the progeny, culture and future. Can oral history truly correspond to the official version? Can oral documents be as valid as written documents, having in mind that they are narrated in a typically female manner in a typically male society?
Table of Contents
Acronyms
Introduction
Urania Yrukova: Urania, the Muse
Evdokiya Foteva: To Hell and Back
Mita Nastevska: The Teacher with a Great Heart
Maria Parizova: A Young Girl's Confession
Olga Karanikolova: Amoung the Wounded
Theodora Kiricova: The Nurse from the Orovo
Velika Kirilova: In Search of Identity
Maria Mitkovska: I and my Shadow
Alexandra Kovachevska: Organisation of Chaos
Stefana Digalovska: The Lady in Gray
Gender Memory: Female Story - Male History (Lidija lafazanovska)
Memory and History: Gender Aspects of Self-Depiction in Authobiographies (Ermis lafazanovski)
Bibliograhpy
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