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Epistemic Justice and Everyday Nationalism: An Auto-Ethnography of Transnational Student Encounters in a Post-War Memory and Reconciliation Project in Kosovo.

Luci, N. and Schwandner-Sievers, S., 2020. Epistemic Justice and Everyday Nationalism: An Auto-Ethnography of Transnational Student Encounters in a Post-War Memory and Reconciliation Project in Kosovo. Nations and nationalism, 26 (2), 477-492.

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DOI: 10.1111/nana.12594

Abstract

This contribution introduces an exercise in epistemic justice to the study of everyday nationalism in post-conflict, transnational (local and international) encounters. It explores how everyday nationalism, in often unexpected and hidden ways, underpinned a cocreational, educational project involving several local (Albanian) and international (British based) university students and staff collaborating on the theme of post-war memory and reconciliation in Kosovo. The set-up resembled a microcosm of transnational social encounters in project collaborations in which the problem of nationalism, typically, is associated with one side only: here, the Kosovars. Guided by Goffman's (1982) social interactionist framework, the study employs selected participants' paraethnographic and auto-ethnographic reflections of their project experiences and practices after the event in order to trace the everyday workings of mutual assumptions and constructions of a national self and other for all sides involved. In this, it explores how the project participants' asymmetric positioning within a wider, global context of unequal power relations shaped their vernacular epistemologies of belonging and identity. It thereby excavated what otherwise taken-for-granted criteria can become relevant in such local/international social encounters as reflected upon and how the enduring power imbalances underpinning these might best be redressed.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1354-5078
Uncontrolled Keywords:Everyday nationalism; nationalism from below; Local nationalism; Epistemic justice; Kosovo; Collective memory; Reconciliation; gender
Group:Faculty of Media & Communication
ID Code:33138
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:16 Dec 2019 09:31
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 14:18

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