Summer School as School
3- 18 July, 2016
Public Program
Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 19:00
Vjollca Krasniqi: Identity, Symbolism and Power: The Politics of Nation-Building in Kosovo
Venue: Boxing Club
Mark Isaku St. Prishtina
Republic of Kosovo
Focusing on identity, symbolism and power in post-war/post-independence Kosovo, the talk explains nation-building processes as envisaged by international actors and experienced by Kosovo Albanian elites and population. The contested politics of national identity enables various readings of national narrations and associated power dynamics. As this presentation will show, nation-building is re-worked through gendered power relations and narratives that give primacy to men, masculinity and masculine values. Understanding the relationship between gender and nation-building is, therefore, essential for grasping the patterns of constructing national identity.
Vjollca Krasniqi, Ph.D., is a sociologist, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Prishtina. She is the co-chair of the University Programme for Gender Studies and Research. She has has written on various aspects of post-war reconstruction in Kosovo with reference to gender, nation and state-building, transitional justice, welfare. She is a participant in various international projects on collective memory and nation-building, post-war justice, welfare and state-building.: Why are we here?