The article discusses their role and meaning through the material flows between women migrants from Dhërmi/Drimades and their husbands who stay behind in their natal village in southern Albania. Material flows are not only emblems but also agents of migrant worlds as they contribute to the formation of transnational marriages that are necessary for the construction of material flows. Material flows form a part of reciprocal relations as they preserve and reconstruct marriage and social relationships in general. They act as insurance policies and reassure dwelling and dynamic presence of absent women migrants.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33252397
The chapter originally entitled 'Himara ne histori' published in the Albanian edited volume, discusses several books that have been published in the past ten years and try to objectify the past of the Himara area. Their views about particular events in the area’s history are diametrically opposed, yet paradoxically, quite alike in several important ways. By focusing on villagers’ and scholars’ continuous negotiations and contestations of the past of Himara area this chapter argues that this area is not merely a physical place but also a “historiographical topos”, the subject of several negotiations and claims over the its past and present.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34143533
This chapter of an edited volume illustrates and explain how villagers and scholars negotiate and contest the past of Himarë/Himara in southern Albania and reconstruct their sense of place, which they seek to situate on a historical and geopolitical map of nation-states. The nation-state is conceptualised as a solid entity, which has always divided people according to their language, territory, and national belonging.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32892205
The paper published in an edited volume concentrates on the meaning of »rootedness« or locality in one of the southern Albanian villages, Dhërmi/Drimades and question its relatedness to land and property. It illustrates how the villagers who are »on the move« negotiate, manage and contest their locality through which they seek to ensure their ownership and property and vice versa. It argues that when expressing their feelings of locality and belonging, people continuously reconstruct their past in order to reassure their present, reconstitute and corroborate their ties to the land, create order to control their own labour, products and income and negotiate their sense of mastery.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32076333