CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Balazevic, Marko |
|---|---|
| Title | Who does Trepca work for?: ambiguous property in northern Kosovo |
| Summary | The account offered in this thesis takes Trepča mining and metallurgical complex located in Kosovo as an exemplary condensation of the disintegration of two fundamental pillars of Yugoslavian socialist project and the subsequent unsuccessful attempts to weave them anew in a coherent discourse. Approached as a critical junction, the contestation over Kosovo, and subsequently over Trepča, illuminates the local scale and in turn offers a new light on the larger historical process of disintegration of Yugoslavia. Secondly, it answer to the question regarding conception of value in general and property in particular. The conclusion stemming from asking the former question is directly dependent on how we understand what is worthy and valuable and what is burdensome and undesirable. Not only is this answer not obvious, but moreover it begs another question: who is to determine what the value of an object or an entity is? Building my argument on ethnographic fieldwork and secondary sources, I argue that property regime is thoroughly relational to the patchwork of sovereignty-claimings in the constellation emerged in the disintegration of Yugoslavian federal state. The conclusion contributes to filling a gap between ethnographic accounts into property regimes in the context of post-socialism and the large body of literature dealing with historical aspects of Yugoslavia's disintegration. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/balazevic_marko.pdf |
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