Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its
political impacts in Eastern Europe. Following workers, managers, and investors in the …

This book provides a critical understanding of Europeanization and statebuilding in the
Western Balkans, using the notion of everyday practices. This volume argues that it is …

This paper examines the relation between ethno-nationalism and neoliberalism in urban
space. Contrary to common views in urban studies, it argues that the 'ethno-nationally …

McElroy and Atanasoski address postsocialism as an emerging theoretical concept that
allows for a novel perspective on the contestations of liberalism and fascism. Focusing on …

With culture-led urban regeneration becoming a leading policy for the transformation of
historic cities, museums and heritage sites have become a key aspect of this transformation …

While Skopje 2014 intended to rebrand the city for international companies and tourists, the
lack of local accountability over the project raises questions about what happened to the …

This paper examines competing forms of heritage in central Skopje, the capital of the
Republic of Macedonia. It shows how Macedonian law came to officially protect the city's Old …

The urban project “Skopje 2014” was not particularly welcomed by citizens, however,
despite the popular discontentment, and controversial implementation, it did not instigate …

On July 26, 1963, a calamitous tremor struck Skopje, the capital of the Socialist Republic of
Macedonia, the southernmost Yugoslav federal unit. The politically nonaligned Yugoslav …

Abstract The “Skopje 2014 project”, an umbrella term covering the 137 memorial objects
erected in North Macedonia's capital city of Skopje in the course of the last decade, has …