Vasiliki P Neofotistos
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 102434 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vasiliki P Neofotistos |
| NOMBRES | Vasiliki P |
| APELLIDO | Neofotistos |
| FIRMA | NEOFOTISTOS V P |
| AFILIACIONES | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Creative arts and healing among veterans
Odyssey participants experienced positive impacts that had ripple effects through their lives and valued using the arts to tell their stories. The Odyssey Project sits in a "sweet spot" between clinical art therapy and other less immersive veterans' community arts programs, making it appealing to veterans struggling with reintegration
Macedonia and Identity Politics after the Prespa Agreement
"This book explores issues of national identity, history, and language in light of the 2018 Prespa Agreement. Designed to resolve a protracted and bitter dispute, the agreement signed by the Macedonian and Greek foreign ministers on the banks of the Prespa lake stipulated that the Republic of Macedonia change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia. The chapters examine the social, political, and economic conditions and events that led to the…
The Rhetoric of War and the Reshaping of Civil Society in North Macedonia
In this article, I explore recent efforts to "de-Sorosize" the Republic of Macedonia, arguing that they reveal an obsession in Macedonia-and more broadly in east central Europe-with defending ethnonational interests against assumed interlopers. New, self-proclaimed patriotic associations have mobilized ideas of combined external and internal threats to national existence as though there were a war frontier. This imagined war frontier marks the di…
Sport and nationalism in the Republic of North Macedonia
Using the Republic of North Macedonia as a case study, this article analyzes the processes through which national sports teams' losing performance acquires a broad social and political significance. I explore claims to sporting victory as a direct product of political forces in countries located at the bottom of the global hierarchy that participate in a wider system of coercive rule, frequently referred to as empire. I also analyze how public ce…
The Intimacies of Community Life
Bulgarian Passports, Macedonian Identity the Invention of Eu Citizenship in the Republic of Macedonia
My concern here is with ethnic Macedonians, especially youth, who claim not to be interested in whether it is ideologically appropriate or inappropriate to apply for Bulgarian passports, but rather point to the practical and economic benefits that Bulgarian passports carry for their holders – mainly freedom to travel without a visa within the EU and access to a greater number of choices in their lives. The case of Macedonia, therefore, helps us v…
On the Isil attacks in Western Europe and elsewhere
In this guest editorial, the author reflects on the inequitable ways in which ISIL attacks are covered in the media, between the West and the rest
Lost in Transition
The Risk of War
The Risk of War
Focusing on interpersonal dynamics during conflict in the Republic of Macedonia, Neofotistos describes how Macedonians and Albanians in the city of Skopje responded to threatening political developments, negotiated relationships of power, and promoted indeterminacy on the level of the everyday as a sense of impending war enfolded the capital
Going Home to Pakistan
In this article I explore the claim that post-independence Macedonia is a cornerstone of European civilization (a traditional Greek claim) and analyze efforts to assert the country's position in the international arena as a “modern” and authentically Western state deserving of membership in the European Union. Such efforts involve the establishment of ties between Macedonians and the Hunzukuts, who live on the remote Hindu Kush Mountains in Pakis…
Postsocialism, Social Value, and Identity Politics among Albanians in Macedonia
In this article, Vasiliki P. Neofotistos analyzes the reappropriation of the term Šiptar, a derogatory Macedonian term for Albanians, by male members of the Albanian community in the Republic of Macedonia. Neofotistos shows how the reappropriation of the ethnic slur reflects constellations of social value, that is to say, larger systems of meaning and action concerning who and what is valued in life, that have emerged with Macedonian independence…
Cultural Intimacy and Subversive Disorder
Using the example of intimate relations between ethnic Albanian men and ethnic Macedonian women in the Republic of Macedonia, I explore the utility of Michael Herzfeld's invaluable insights into the interconnections among state power, cultural intimacy, and subversive disorder in states where different groups compete for state power. In these states, the absence of conditions that are conducive to the production of cultural intimacy points to the…
"Rethinking "make do
In this article, I examine the social performance of bodily movement "from the side" in bureaucratic institutions in Macedonia, specifically, how locals use their bodies to weave their way in and out of insider-outsider classifications that shape bureaucratic organization. Additionally, I explore how Macedonians and Albanians use, in common parlance, bodily movement "from the side" as a metaphor to lend different meanings to a new sociopolitical …
Bulgarian passports, Macedonian identity
In this article, I examine some of the social effects that Bulgaria's EU membership has for Macedonia and the meanings that identification documents have for ethnic Macedonians who instrumentalize Bulgarian claims on their Macedonian identity for their own ends. I argue that the case study of Macedonia helps us view identification documents as objects that neither necessarily fix nationality nor are ineluctable guarantees of belonging to the (Bul…
Film as text
The Muslim, the Jew and the African American
In this paper, I draw on the work of literary critic Wolfgang Kayser and his concept of the grotesque to analyze the recently released film "Borat". I argue that the film is an allegory of America and some of its Others, including the Muslim, the Jew, and the African American
On Agency and the Ethnographic Project
The Balkans' Other within
Using the case study of the Republic of Macedonia, I explore how people who live in a realm conventionally cast as insufficient of "the European Self" imagine "the West". Such imaginings are important because they are intertwined with negotiations of nationhood and citizenship. I argue that in local constructions of the global social order, Macedonia emerges in an interstitial position between "the Balkans" and "the West" as "the Balkans' Other W…
Beyond Stereotypes
In this article, the author explores the social construction of local classifications and their work in the Republic of Macedonia. Macedonians and Albanians construe classifications of their social world that are modeled on ethnicity, but at the same time readily violate them. By deploying the classificatory principles kultura and besa (widely glossed as "culture" and "trustworthiness", respectively), local actors can render ethnic boundaries por…
Beyond Stereotypes
In this article, the author explores the social construction of local classifications and their work in the Republic of Macedonia. Macedonians and Albanians construe classifications of their social world that are modeled on ethnicity, but at the same time readily violate them. By deploying the classificatory principles kultura and besa (widely glossed as "culture" and "trustworthiness", respectively), local actors can render ethnic boundaries por…
Bulgarian passports, Macedonian identity
In this article, I examine some of the social effects that Bulgaria's EU membership has for Macedonia and the meanings that identification documents have for ethnic Macedonians who instrumentalize Bulgarian claims on their Macedonian identity for their own ends. I argue that the case study of Macedonia helps us view identification documents as objects that neither necessarily fix nationality nor are ineluctable guarantees of belonging to the (Bul…
The Balkans' Other within
Using the case study of the Republic of Macedonia, I explore how people who live in a realm conventionally cast as insufficient of "the European Self" imagine "the West". Such imaginings are important because they are intertwined with negotiations of nationhood and citizenship. I argue that in local constructions of the global social order, Macedonia emerges in an interstitial position between "the Balkans" and "the West" as "the Balkans' Other W…
Going Home to Pakistan
In this article I explore the claim that post-independence Macedonia is a cornerstone of European civilization (a traditional Greek claim) and analyze efforts to assert the country's position in the international arena as a “modern” and authentically Western state deserving of membership in the European Union. Such efforts involve the establishment of ties between Macedonians and the Hunzukuts, who live on the remote Hindu Kush Mountains in Pakis…
"Rethinking "make do
In this article, I examine the social performance of bodily movement "from the side" in bureaucratic institutions in Macedonia, specifically, how locals use their bodies to weave their way in and out of insider-outsider classifications that shape bureaucratic organization. Additionally, I explore how Macedonians and Albanians use, in common parlance, bodily movement "from the side" as a metaphor to lend different meanings to a new sociopolitical …
Cultural Intimacy and Subversive Disorder
Using the example of intimate relations between ethnic Albanian men and ethnic Macedonian women in the Republic of Macedonia, I explore the utility of Michael Herzfeld's invaluable insights into the interconnections among state power, cultural intimacy, and subversive disorder in states where different groups compete for state power. In these states, the absence of conditions that are conducive to the production of cultural intimacy points to the…
The Rhetoric of War and the Reshaping of Civil Society in North Macedonia
In this article, I explore recent efforts to "de-Sorosize" the Republic of Macedonia, arguing that they reveal an obsession in Macedonia-and more broadly in east central Europe-with defending ethnonational interests against assumed interlopers. New, self-proclaimed patriotic associations have mobilized ideas of combined external and internal threats to national existence as though there were a war frontier. This imagined war frontier marks the di…
Postsocialism, Social Value, and Identity Politics among Albanians in Macedonia
In this article, Vasiliki P. Neofotistos analyzes the reappropriation of the term Šiptar, a derogatory Macedonian term for Albanians, by male members of the Albanian community in the Republic of Macedonia. Neofotistos shows how the reappropriation of the ethnic slur reflects constellations of social value, that is to say, larger systems of meaning and action concerning who and what is valued in life, that have emerged with Macedonian independence…
Beyond Stereotypes
In this article, the author explores the social construction of local classifications and their work in the Republic of Macedonia. Macedonians and Albanians construe classifications of their social world that are modeled on ethnicity, but at the same time readily violate them. By deploying the classificatory principles kultura and besa (widely glossed as "culture" and "trustworthiness", respectively), local actors can render ethnic boundaries por…
Film as text
The Muslim, the Jew and the African American
In this paper, I draw on the work of literary critic Wolfgang Kayser and his concept of the grotesque to analyze the recently released film "Borat". I argue that the film is an allegory of America and some of its Others, including the Muslim, the Jew, and the African American
On Agency and the Ethnographic Project
The Balkans' Other within
Using the case study of the Republic of Macedonia, I explore how people who live in a realm conventionally cast as insufficient of "the European Self" imagine "the West". Such imaginings are important because they are intertwined with negotiations of nationhood and citizenship. I argue that in local constructions of the global social order, Macedonia emerges in an interstitial position between "the Balkans" and "the West" as "the Balkans' Other W…
"Rethinking "make do
In this article, I examine the social performance of bodily movement "from the side" in bureaucratic institutions in Macedonia, specifically, how locals use their bodies to weave their way in and out of insider-outsider classifications that shape bureaucratic organization. Additionally, I explore how Macedonians and Albanians use, in common parlance, bodily movement "from the side" as a metaphor to lend different meanings to a new sociopolitical …
Bulgarian passports, Macedonian identity
In this article, I examine some of the social effects that Bulgaria's EU membership has for Macedonia and the meanings that identification documents have for ethnic Macedonians who instrumentalize Bulgarian claims on their Macedonian identity for their own ends. I argue that the case study of Macedonia helps us view identification documents as objects that neither necessarily fix nationality nor are ineluctable guarantees of belonging to the (Bul…
Postsocialism, Social Value, and Identity Politics among Albanians in Macedonia
In this article, Vasiliki P. Neofotistos analyzes the reappropriation of the term Šiptar, a derogatory Macedonian term for Albanians, by male members of the Albanian community in the Republic of Macedonia. Neofotistos shows how the reappropriation of the ethnic slur reflects constellations of social value, that is to say, larger systems of meaning and action concerning who and what is valued in life, that have emerged with Macedonian independence…
Cultural Intimacy and Subversive Disorder
Using the example of intimate relations between ethnic Albanian men and ethnic Macedonian women in the Republic of Macedonia, I explore the utility of Michael Herzfeld's invaluable insights into the interconnections among state power, cultural intimacy, and subversive disorder in states where different groups compete for state power. In these states, the absence of conditions that are conducive to the production of cultural intimacy points to the…
Going Home to Pakistan
In this article I explore the claim that post-independence Macedonia is a cornerstone of European civilization (a traditional Greek claim) and analyze efforts to assert the country's position in the international arena as a “modern” and authentically Western state deserving of membership in the European Union. Such efforts involve the establishment of ties between Macedonians and the Hunzukuts, who live on the remote Hindu Kush Mountains in Pakis…
The Risk of War
The Risk of War
Focusing on interpersonal dynamics during conflict in the Republic of Macedonia, Neofotistos describes how Macedonians and Albanians in the city of Skopje responded to threatening political developments, negotiated relationships of power, and promoted indeterminacy on the level of the everyday as a sense of impending war enfolded the capital
Lost in Transition
Bulgarian Passports, Macedonian Identity the Invention of Eu Citizenship in the Republic of Macedonia
My concern here is with ethnic Macedonians, especially youth, who claim not to be interested in whether it is ideologically appropriate or inappropriate to apply for Bulgarian passports, but rather point to the practical and economic benefits that Bulgarian passports carry for their holders – mainly freedom to travel without a visa within the EU and access to a greater number of choices in their lives. The case of Macedonia, therefore, helps us v…
On the Isil attacks in Western Europe and elsewhere
In this guest editorial, the author reflects on the inequitable ways in which ISIL attacks are covered in the media, between the West and the rest
The Rhetoric of War and the Reshaping of Civil Society in North Macedonia
In this article, I explore recent efforts to "de-Sorosize" the Republic of Macedonia, arguing that they reveal an obsession in Macedonia-and more broadly in east central Europe-with defending ethnonational interests against assumed interlopers. New, self-proclaimed patriotic associations have mobilized ideas of combined external and internal threats to national existence as though there were a war frontier. This imagined war frontier marks the di…
Sport and nationalism in the Republic of North Macedonia
Using the Republic of North Macedonia as a case study, this article analyzes the processes through which national sports teams' losing performance acquires a broad social and political significance. I explore claims to sporting victory as a direct product of political forces in countries located at the bottom of the global hierarchy that participate in a wider system of coercive rule, frequently referred to as empire. I also analyze how public ce…
The Intimacies of Community Life
Macedonia and Identity Politics after the Prespa Agreement
"This book explores issues of national identity, history, and language in light of the 2018 Prespa Agreement. Designed to resolve a protracted and bitter dispute, the agreement signed by the Macedonian and Greek foreign ministers on the banks of the Prespa lake stipulated that the Republic of Macedonia change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia. The chapters examine the social, political, and economic conditions and events that led to the…
Creative arts and healing among veterans
Odyssey participants experienced positive impacts that had ripple effects through their lives and valued using the arts to tell their stories. The Odyssey Project sits in a "sweet spot" between clinical art therapy and other less immersive veterans' community arts programs, making it appealing to veterans struggling with reintegration
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