Border and Memory in the village of Koshovice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6136198 |
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| Authors | Stefania Vasilaki (0000-0001-8756-6725, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Maritina Vlachaki (0000-0002-1851-1162, Panteion University), Nicos Koutsourakis (Panteion University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Anthropology of East Europe Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-4720 • E-ISSN: 2153-2931 |
| Publisher | IUScholarWorks (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14434/aeer.v37i1.31951 |
| OpenAlex | W3211640838 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article focuses on the village of Koshovice, Albania, where its residents are part of the officially recognized Greek minority. The local perceptions of the community are discussed as linked to the Albanian-Greek border and its presence in the collective memory. After the borderline creation in 1913, local residents were divided between the two neighboring countries. The ethnographic data collected underline the experiences and the everyday practices of the villagers of Koshovice, especially during the period of the Albanian socialist state between 1945 and 1991, when the border became almost impenetrable. The article then discusses the changes after the fall of socialism and the opening of the border in the early 1990s, especially showing how the local borderland communities are still connected nowadays to each other despite the inter-state division
Aesthetics · Art · Collective memory · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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