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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2021The fringes of citizenship
Romani minorities in Europe and civic marginalisation
by Julija Sardelic, Gurminder Bhambra
This book presents a socio-legal enquiry into the civic marginalisation of Roma in Europe. Instead of looking only at Roma's position as migrants, an ethnic minority or a socio-economically disadvantage group, it considers them as European citizens, questioning why they are typically used to describe exceptionalities of citizenship in developed liberal democracies rather than as evidence for how problematic the conceptualisation of citizenship is at its core. Developing novel theoretical concepts, such as the fringes of citizenship and the invisible edges of citizenship, the book investigates a variety of topics around citizenship, including migration and free movement, statelessness and school segregation, as well as how marginalised minorities respond to such predicaments. It argues that while Roma are unique as a minority, the treatment that marginalises them is not. This is demonstrated by comparing their position to that of other marginalised minorities around the globe.
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September 2002Srebrenica. Ein Prozeß
Dokumente aus dem Verfahren gegen General Radislav Krstic vor dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof für das ehemalige Jugoslawien in Den Haag
by Julija Bogoeva, Caroline Fetscher, Barbara Antkowiak, Ulrike Bischoff, Caroline Fetscher
Im Juli 1995 wurden 7500 muslimische Jungen und Männer aus der UN-Schutzzone Srebrenica verschleppt und in einer systematisch durchgeführten Aktion umgebracht. Sechs Jahre später geht vor dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag die Verhandlung über den größten Massenmord in Europa seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu Ende. Ein General der bosnischen Serben, Radislav Krstic, wird wegen Völkermords zu 46 Jahren Haft verurteilt - das erste Urteil dieser Tragweite seit den Nürnberger Prozessen. Das Gericht gilt wie das Ruanda-Tribunal als Vorläufer eines Weltstrafgerichtshofes. Dis Vernehmungsprotokolle von Überlebenden und Angehörigen der Opfer, von Tätern, Tatzeugen und Gutachtern, die der Band versammelt, fügen sich zu einem Bild dessen, was in Srebrenica geschah. Sie gehören zu den erschütterndsten Dokumenten unserer Gegenwart. Wer sich von der Arbeit des Tribunals einen eigenen Eindruck verschaffen will, wird auf dieses Buch nicht verzichten können. Julija Bogoeva, Juristin, Mitbegründerin der unabhängigen Belgrader Nachrichtenagentur Beta, berichtet seit 1996 vom Tribunal. Caroline Fetscher, Publizistin, arbeitet seit 1999 als Reporterin in Ex-Jugoslawien und am Tribunal.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2018Race and the Yugoslav region
Postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?
by Catherine Baker, Gurminder Bhambra
This is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race - not just ethnicity - and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects critical race scholarship, global historical sociologies of 'race in translation' and south-east European cultural critique to show that the Yugoslav region is deeply embedded in global formations of race. In doing this, it considers the everyday geopolitical imagination of popular culture; the history of ethnicity, nationhood and migration; transnational formations of race before and during state socialism, including the Non-Aligned Movement; and post-Yugoslav discourses of security, migration, terrorism and international intervention, including the War on Terror and the present refugee crisis.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2017Frontiers of the Caribbean
by Philip Nanton, Gurminder Bhambra
This book argues that the Caribbean frontier, usually assumed to have been eclipsed after colonial conquest, remains a powerful but unrecognised element of Caribbean island culture. Combining analytical and creative genres of writing, it explores historical and contemporary patterns of frontier change through a case study of the little-known Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St Vincent and the Grenadines. Modern frontier traits are located in the wandering woodcutter, the squatter on government land and the mountainside ganja grower. But the frontier is also identified as part of global production that has shaped island tourism, the financial sector and patterns of migration.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2022Diaspora as translation and decolonisation
by Ipek Demir, Gurminder Bhambra
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2021De-centering queer theory
Communist sexuality in the flow during and after the Cold War
by Bogdan Popa, Gurminder Bhambra
De-centering queer theory seeks to reorient queer theory to a different conception of bodies and sexuality derived from Eastern European Marxism. The book articulates a contrast between the concept of the productive body, which draws its epistemology from Soviet and avant-garde theorists, and Cold War gender, which is defined as the social construction of the body. The first part of the book concentrates on the theoretical and visual production of Eastern European Marxism, which proposed an alternative version of sexuality to that of western liberalism. In doing so it offers a historical angle to understand the emergence not only of an alternative epistemology, but also of queer theory's vocabulary. The second part of the book provides a Marxist, anti-capitalist archive for queer studies, which often neglects to engage critically with its liberal and Cold War underpinnings.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2018Race and the Yugoslav region
by Catherine Baker, Gurminder K. Bhambra
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2016Debt as Power
by Richard H. Robbins, Tim Di Muzio, Gurminder K. Bhambra
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Social & political philosophyJanuary 2017Subjects of modernity
Time-space, disciplines, margins
by Saurabh Dube. Series edited by Professor Gurminder K. Bhambra
This book thinks through modernity and its representations by drawing in critical considerations of time and space. It explores the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under modernity as constitutive of our worlds. Instead of assuming a straightforward, singular trajectory of the phenomena, it discusses modernity as involving checkered, contingent and contended processes of meaning and power over the past five centuries. Subjects of modernity considers the overlaps yet distinctions between modernity, modernism and modernisation, further imaginatively exploring the relationship between history and anthropology. Critically engaging historical anthropology, subaltern studies, de-colonial understandings, and post-colonial procedures, it at once offers an innovative understanding of cultural identities and imaginatively reassess critical perspectives, from South Asia to Latin America. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, history, sociology, post-colonial studies and cultural geography, among other subjects, finding adoption in different courses/seminars across disciplines.
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SociologyJanuary 2017Frontiers of the Caribbean
by Dr Philip Nanton. Series edited by Professor Gurminder K. Bhambra
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Children's & YATHE PESKY TRIO - THAT DOOR SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN OPENED
by ANDREJ E. SKUBIC
THE PESKY TRIO: THAT DOOR SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN OPENEDWritten by Andrej E. SkubicIllustrated by Tanja Komadina Liam and Tomaž really like to play tricks on Petra, Julija and especially Lija, who they think is clumsy. At the beginning of this series, which talks about the everyday life of children who are good friends, we come across them slinging dirt clods and teasing. It turns out that the friendship is not yet all that solid and that Lija, Tomaž and Liam – the Pesky Trio – are about to experience many trials and tribulations. Format: 14 x 20 cm72 pages | Age: 6+
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FictionKakorkoli/No Matter How
by Polona Glavan
The novel follows two parallel narrative strands with chapters alternating between the voice of 17-year-old Lili and that of university student Alja. While Lili, a high school student from an underprivileged background, and her older boyfriend Mars deal with an unplanned pregnancy, 20-year-old Alja has just returned from a summer backpacking in Ireland and is now trying to bridge the distance between her and David, whom she fell in love with in Ireland. Both Lili and Alja soon realise that the world around them is much bigger and much more complex than their love woes, and while the first half of the novel deals with the girls’ personal problems, the second half takes on a certain social urgency. Through tutoring, Alja meets 13-year-old Senad who lives in abject poverty with his Bosnian family. Appalled at the conditions they live in, she joins an activist group that fights for minority rights. Meanwhile, Mars loses his job after an outburst against an immigrant. The paths of the two protagonists cross in a brief but fatal moment when they find themselves head to head at the same street protest. The circumstances of their brief meeting mark the end of the world as they know it, and while their lives are changed forever, they need to continue – no matter how.
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Children's & YATHE PESKY TRIO - ROXY FINDS HOME
by ANDREJ E. SKUBIC
THE PESKY TRIO: ROXY FINDS A HOMEWritten by Andrej E. SkubicIllustrated by Tanja Komadina Two new books from the popular Pesky Trio series A new dog named Roxy is adopted from a Bosnian animal shelter by Tomaž’s family. Dad has always said he’s more of a “cat person” and Mum resents that so much of the responsibility falls on her. Tomaž was unhappy to see the dog causing arguments between his mother and father. “A dog should bring joy, not bickering.” But this dog has so many problems. How will the Pesky Trio react to the new dog? Format: 14 x 20 cm72 pages | Age: 6+
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Children's & YATHE PESKY TRIO - PESTS FROM THE WARDROBE
by ANDREJ E. SKUBIC
THE PESKY TRIO: PESTS FROM THE WARDROBEWritten by Andrej E. SkubicIllustrated by Tanja Komadina What a scare Lija gets from a puppet made out of clothes by her sister Adela! The Pesky Trio decide to strike back. What will happen? Sometimes a “joke” can cause real fear. How to act when you are being intimidated? Format: 14 x 20 cm72 pages | Age: 6+
