Rozita Dimova
Biographic Data
| ID | 83046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rozita Dimova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rozita |
| FAMILY NAME | Dimova |
| SIGNATURE | DIMOVA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ethno-Baroque: Materiality, Aesthetics and Conflict in Modern-Day Macedonia
In post-1991 Macedonia, Barok furniture came to represent affluence and success during a period of transition to a new market economy. This furniture marked the beginning of a larger Baroque style that influenced not only interior decorations in people's homes but also architecture and public spaces. By tracing the signifier Baroque, the book examines the reconfiguration of hierarchical relations among (ethnic) groups, genders, and countries in a…
Heritage, gentrification, participation: Remaking urban landscapes in the name of culture and historic preservation
This special issue explores the relationship between heritagization, shifting economies, and urban struggles in different cities around the globe. Our aim is to examine the conditions that have brought history, culture, an old/new urban aesthetics, real estate values, and housing struggles in a relational nexus by looking at the ways in which differently-situated actors mobilize the language of cultural heritage to act upon urban spaces. Ideas of…
Elusive centres of a Balkan city: Skopje between undesirable and reluctant heritage
This paper examines competing forms of heritage in central Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. It shows how Macedonian law came to officially protect the city’s Old Bazaar as cultural heritage of special importance in 2007. Yet the Bazaar constitutes a ‘reluctant heritage’ because locals have associated Ottoman-period architecture with Albanians, amidst ethno-political tensions between Albanians and Macedonians that have persisted s…
Political Materialities of Borders: New Theoretical Directions
Political Materialities Borders
The political materialities of borders aims to bring questions of materiality to bear specifically on the study of borders. In doing this, the contributors have chosen an approach that does not presume the material aspect of borders but rather explores the ways in which any such materiality comes into being. Through ethnographic and philosophical explorations of the ontology of borders from the perspective of materiality, this volume seeks to thr…
Consuming the “Other: ” The South-Eastern European Case
This article describes the local and transnational processes that led to ethnic conflict, highlighting the rearticulation of class, ethnicity, and gender which resulted from the 1991 dismemberment of the Yugoslav Federation and the independence of Macedonia. As the entry point for my research, I focused on the domain of consumption and material culture, specifically of interior decorations. I analyzed furniture, decorative objects, and the divisi…
Transgressing law and morality: Temporality, nationalism and borders in the Southern Balkans
Based on fieldwork examining border porosities between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia this paper outlines the crossings of money, goods and services between the two countries in different temporal contexts. Going beyond the political and symbolic conflict over who has the legitimate right to the name ‘Macedonia’, a conflict which has effectively overshadowed the other levels of interaction and contact since 1991, the ethnographic research i…
Between borderlines, betwixt citizenship: Gender, agency and the crisis in the Macedonia/Greece border region
Ethno-Baroque
In post-1991 Macedonia, Barok furniture came to represent affluence and success during a period of transition to a new market economy. This furniture marked the beginning of a larger Baroque style that influenced not only interior decorations in people’s homes but also architecture and public spaces. By tracing the signifier Baroque, the book examines the reconfiguration of hierarchical relations among (ethnic) groups, genders, and countries in a…
Contested Nation-Building within the International “Order of Things: Performance, Festivals and Legitimization in South-Eastern Europe
This volume is a collection of essays focusing on performance and public rituals in four South-Eastern European countries: Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The “ambiguous” nation-building of the four nation-states is a process of imagining the political community of the nations that “always necessitates—even presupposes—the imagining of an international community, a ‘Family of Nations’” (Malkki, Liisa. 1994. “Citizens o…
Nature" and "Nation" in the Republic of Moldova: "Rebirth and Rebuilding Through the International Festival of Music "Mărţişor
This article examines the political–pedagogical performance of the spring holiday “Mărţişor” in the Republic of Moldova, as part of Moldova's official nation-building project in the period 2001–2009. By analysing the International Festival of Music “Mărţişor”, we examine symbolic allegories between the celebration of the rebirth of nature—known in folklore as “the holiday of mărţişor”—and the (re)creation of “the Moldovan nation”. We argue that M…
"The "Nation of Poetry: Language, Festival and Subversion in Macedonia
This article critically examines the Struga Poetry Festival established in 1961 when it placed Macedonian poets and writers on the wider map of world poetry, international literature and language. With this the festival carried a subversive and an emancipatory task that not only promoted Macedonia's national poetry but also pushed the nation itself onto the world stage. Although highly politicized (and deeply political), the festival emerged as a…
The Ohrid Festival and Political Performativity in the Contemporary Republic of Macedonia
This paper identifies art festivals and heritage venues as central pillars in contemporary politics in the Republic of Macedonia. While focusing on the venues used during the Ohrid Summer Festival, my analysis expands on the wider performative aspect of politics shaped by the 2001 conflict with the Albanian insurgents and the conflict with Greece around the name Macedonia that has additionally added performative elements of pronounced emphasis on…
Consuming Ethnicity: Loss, Commodities, and Space in Macedonia
In this article, Rozita Dimova examines the rearticulation of class and ethnicity and how class distinctions produced by a free market and neoliberal economy in Macedonia have affected the interaction of Albanians and Macedonians in postsocialist Macedonia. Dimova highlights the ethnic dimensions of changing patterns of consumption by exploring the class mobility of one ethnic group (Albanians) and thus combines class, commodities, and consumptio…
Modern” Masculinities: Ethnicity, Education, and Gender in Macedonia
In 2000, when conducting a household survey as part of my research on consumption and ethnicity in the small western Macedonian town of Kumanovo, I received explicit proof of how important education has become for ethnic Albanians. It was a Friday afternoon on a hot summer day. I was in my top-floor apartment, working with my research assistant, Adnan, a 28-year-old ethnic Albanian man who had been helping me for the past year. We had grown to be…
Contested Nation-Building within the International “Order of Things: Performance, Festivals and Legitimization in South-Eastern Europe
This volume is a collection of essays focusing on performance and public rituals in four South-Eastern European countries: Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The “ambiguous” nation-building of the four nation-states is a process of imagining the political community of the nations that “always necessitates—even presupposes—the imagining of an international community, a ‘Family of Nations’” (Malkki, Liisa. 1994. “Citizens o…
Nature" and "Nation" in the Republic of Moldova: "Rebirth and Rebuilding Through the International Festival of Music "Mărţişor
This article examines the political–pedagogical performance of the spring holiday “Mărţişor” in the Republic of Moldova, as part of Moldova's official nation-building project in the period 2001–2009. By analysing the International Festival of Music “Mărţişor”, we examine symbolic allegories between the celebration of the rebirth of nature—known in folklore as “the holiday of mărţişor”—and the (re)creation of “the Moldovan nation”. We argue that M…
Consuming Ethnicity: Loss, Commodities, and Space in Macedonia
In this article, Rozita Dimova examines the rearticulation of class and ethnicity and how class distinctions produced by a free market and neoliberal economy in Macedonia have affected the interaction of Albanians and Macedonians in postsocialist Macedonia. Dimova highlights the ethnic dimensions of changing patterns of consumption by exploring the class mobility of one ethnic group (Albanians) and thus combines class, commodities, and consumptio…
Elusive centres of a Balkan city: Skopje between undesirable and reluctant heritage
This paper examines competing forms of heritage in central Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. It shows how Macedonian law came to officially protect the city’s Old Bazaar as cultural heritage of special importance in 2007. Yet the Bazaar constitutes a ‘reluctant heritage’ because locals have associated Ottoman-period architecture with Albanians, amidst ethno-political tensions between Albanians and Macedonians that have persisted s…
Modern” Masculinities: Ethnicity, Education, and Gender in Macedonia
In 2000, when conducting a household survey as part of my research on consumption and ethnicity in the small western Macedonian town of Kumanovo, I received explicit proof of how important education has become for ethnic Albanians. It was a Friday afternoon on a hot summer day. I was in my top-floor apartment, working with my research assistant, Adnan, a 28-year-old ethnic Albanian man who had been helping me for the past year. We had grown to be…
Between borderlines, betwixt citizenship: Gender, agency and the crisis in the Macedonia/Greece border region
"The "Nation of Poetry: Language, Festival and Subversion in Macedonia
This article critically examines the Struga Poetry Festival established in 1961 when it placed Macedonian poets and writers on the wider map of world poetry, international literature and language. With this the festival carried a subversive and an emancipatory task that not only promoted Macedonia's national poetry but also pushed the nation itself onto the world stage. Although highly politicized (and deeply political), the festival emerged as a…
Modern” Masculinities: Ethnicity, Education, and Gender in Macedonia
In 2000, when conducting a household survey as part of my research on consumption and ethnicity in the small western Macedonian town of Kumanovo, I received explicit proof of how important education has become for ethnic Albanians. It was a Friday afternoon on a hot summer day. I was in my top-floor apartment, working with my research assistant, Adnan, a 28-year-old ethnic Albanian man who had been helping me for the past year. We had grown to be…
Consuming Ethnicity: Loss, Commodities, and Space in Macedonia
In this article, Rozita Dimova examines the rearticulation of class and ethnicity and how class distinctions produced by a free market and neoliberal economy in Macedonia have affected the interaction of Albanians and Macedonians in postsocialist Macedonia. Dimova highlights the ethnic dimensions of changing patterns of consumption by exploring the class mobility of one ethnic group (Albanians) and thus combines class, commodities, and consumptio…
The Ohrid Festival and Political Performativity in the Contemporary Republic of Macedonia
This paper identifies art festivals and heritage venues as central pillars in contemporary politics in the Republic of Macedonia. While focusing on the venues used during the Ohrid Summer Festival, my analysis expands on the wider performative aspect of politics shaped by the 2001 conflict with the Albanian insurgents and the conflict with Greece around the name Macedonia that has additionally added performative elements of pronounced emphasis on…
Ethno-Baroque
In post-1991 Macedonia, Barok furniture came to represent affluence and success during a period of transition to a new market economy. This furniture marked the beginning of a larger Baroque style that influenced not only interior decorations in people’s homes but also architecture and public spaces. By tracing the signifier Baroque, the book examines the reconfiguration of hierarchical relations among (ethnic) groups, genders, and countries in a…
Contested Nation-Building within the International “Order of Things: Performance, Festivals and Legitimization in South-Eastern Europe
This volume is a collection of essays focusing on performance and public rituals in four South-Eastern European countries: Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The “ambiguous” nation-building of the four nation-states is a process of imagining the political community of the nations that “always necessitates—even presupposes—the imagining of an international community, a ‘Family of Nations’” (Malkki, Liisa. 1994. “Citizens o…
Nature" and "Nation" in the Republic of Moldova: "Rebirth and Rebuilding Through the International Festival of Music "Mărţişor
This article examines the political–pedagogical performance of the spring holiday “Mărţişor” in the Republic of Moldova, as part of Moldova's official nation-building project in the period 2001–2009. By analysing the International Festival of Music “Mărţişor”, we examine symbolic allegories between the celebration of the rebirth of nature—known in folklore as “the holiday of mărţişor”—and the (re)creation of “the Moldovan nation”. We argue that M…
"The "Nation of Poetry: Language, Festival and Subversion in Macedonia
This article critically examines the Struga Poetry Festival established in 1961 when it placed Macedonian poets and writers on the wider map of world poetry, international literature and language. With this the festival carried a subversive and an emancipatory task that not only promoted Macedonia's national poetry but also pushed the nation itself onto the world stage. Although highly politicized (and deeply political), the festival emerged as a…
Between borderlines, betwixt citizenship: Gender, agency and the crisis in the Macedonia/Greece border region
Transgressing law and morality: Temporality, nationalism and borders in the Southern Balkans
Based on fieldwork examining border porosities between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia this paper outlines the crossings of money, goods and services between the two countries in different temporal contexts. Going beyond the political and symbolic conflict over who has the legitimate right to the name ‘Macedonia’, a conflict which has effectively overshadowed the other levels of interaction and contact since 1991, the ethnographic research i…
Consuming the “Other: ” The South-Eastern European Case
This article describes the local and transnational processes that led to ethnic conflict, highlighting the rearticulation of class, ethnicity, and gender which resulted from the 1991 dismemberment of the Yugoslav Federation and the independence of Macedonia. As the entry point for my research, I focused on the domain of consumption and material culture, specifically of interior decorations. I analyzed furniture, decorative objects, and the divisi…
Political Materialities of Borders: New Theoretical Directions
Political Materialities Borders
The political materialities of borders aims to bring questions of materiality to bear specifically on the study of borders. In doing this, the contributors have chosen an approach that does not presume the material aspect of borders but rather explores the ways in which any such materiality comes into being. Through ethnographic and philosophical explorations of the ontology of borders from the perspective of materiality, this volume seeks to thr…
Heritage, gentrification, participation: Remaking urban landscapes in the name of culture and historic preservation
This special issue explores the relationship between heritagization, shifting economies, and urban struggles in different cities around the globe. Our aim is to examine the conditions that have brought history, culture, an old/new urban aesthetics, real estate values, and housing struggles in a relational nexus by looking at the ways in which differently-situated actors mobilize the language of cultural heritage to act upon urban spaces. Ideas of…
Elusive centres of a Balkan city: Skopje between undesirable and reluctant heritage
This paper examines competing forms of heritage in central Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. It shows how Macedonian law came to officially protect the city’s Old Bazaar as cultural heritage of special importance in 2007. Yet the Bazaar constitutes a ‘reluctant heritage’ because locals have associated Ottoman-period architecture with Albanians, amidst ethno-political tensions between Albanians and Macedonians that have persisted s…
Ethno-Baroque: Materiality, Aesthetics and Conflict in Modern-Day Macedonia
In post-1991 Macedonia, Barok furniture came to represent affluence and success during a period of transition to a new market economy. This furniture marked the beginning of a larger Baroque style that influenced not only interior decorations in people's homes but also architecture and public spaces. By tracing the signifier Baroque, the book examines the reconfiguration of hierarchical relations among (ethnic) groups, genders, and countries in a…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (4 works)