BISA 2025 Conference

Lost in Transition? Movements and Contestations from South East Europe

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 09:00

1h 30m

Panel South East Europe Working Group

Description

This panel explores different transitions that emerge from and in South East Europe and beyond, ranging from post-war transition to neoliberal transition, and most recently green transition. It brings together papers that critically examine activism, resistance, transitional justice, and state-building across the region.

Subcontributions

• How Does an Extractivist Frontier Come to Being? The Case of Lithium Mining in Serbia
• “Aren’t I Yugoslav?: Feminist Solidarities within Activist Networks in the 1990s in Kosovo”
• Kosovo and the EU: communicative discourses between an emerging state and a state-building Union
• Green Activism in the Era of re-democratization: does a centre-left Government in Power Make a Difference?
• Transitional justice and threat perceptions: Under what interactional contexts is transitional justice viewed as zero-sum?