CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Doci, Gentian |
|---|---|
| Title | The Albanians in Socialist Yugoslavia: Oral histories of experience and temporality |
| Summary | This thesis seeks to investigate the Albanian experience in Socialist Yugoslavia through the lens of temporality. Understanding time as non-linear, but multi-layered, I argue that this approach helps for a more thorough understanding of the Albanian experience in Yugoslavia. My argument is that the Albanian experience in Socialist Yugoslavia is characterized by temporal breaks. I understand temporal breaks by the divergence of what has been lived and can be remembered (the space of experience) with the horizon of expectation, which is the aspiring future, what has not happened yet. I have been able to identify two temporal breaks: The Brioni Plenum, and the 1981 student protests. Through conducting nine oral history interviews, I seek to understand how these temporal breaks shaped the experience, interethnic relations and identity of Albanians in SFRY. |
| Supervisor | Rory Archer |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/doci_gentian.pdf |
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