The Risk of War focuses on practices and performances
of everyday life across ethnonational borders during the six-month
armed conflict in 2001 between Macedonian government forces and the
Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA)-a conflict initiated by the
NLA with the proclaimed purpose of securing greater rights for the
Albanian community in Macedonia and terminated by the
internationally brokered Ohrid Framework Agreement. Anthropologist
Vasiliki P. Neofotistos provides an ethnographic account of the
ways middle- and working-class Albanian and Macedonian
noncombatants in Macedonia's capital city, Skopje, went about their
daily lives during the conflict, when fear and uncertainty
regarding their existence and the viability of the state were
intense and widespread.
Neofotistos finds that, rather than passively observing the
international community's efforts to manage the political crisis,
members of the Macedonian and Albanian communities responded with
resilience and wit to disruptive and threatening changes in social
structure, intensely negotiated relationships of power, and
promoted indeterminacy on the level of the everyday as a sense of
impending war enfolded the capital. More broadly, The Risk of
War helps us better understand how postindependence Macedonia
has managed to escape civil bloodshed despite high political
volatility, acute ethno-nationalist rivalries, and unrelenting
external pressures exerted by neighboring countries.
eISBN: 978-0-8122-0656-2
Subjects: Anthropology
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