“I want Albania to be like Europe” was the sentence often heard in the media and political discourse and daily talk of Albanian people after the fall of communist regime in 1991. Nowadays, when more than two decades have passed from the fall of communism the term Europe as an idea and as a place is still present in peoples’ daily conversations. They often use it as a synonym for European Union (EU) which pertains to modernity, social and economic development and general well being. This guest lecture questioned how peoples’ feelings of uncertain and unsure present are replaced with their hopes and expectations for a better future envisioned in Albania’s accession to EU. In line with Reed’s definition of waiting as the integral part of future directionality of the hopeful moment, their wait for accession could be interpreted as an indeterminate position which gives them hope and faith for a better future. This presentation will address dimensions of hope and waiting in Southern Albania and argue that these “methods of knowledge” are the ways in which people think and vision the future.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 37326381In the first part of the lecture were explored some important contributions to studies of (im)mobility. In the anthropological studies of place and routes the places and routes are always presented as dynamic and relational. Their meaning is conditioned by movements of people and places. The second part of the lecture described the on-going project “Ethnography of land and water routes: a comparative approach to (im)mobility”. The project deals with the anthropology of roads and (im)mobility in the multicultural regions of Istria, Pomoravje and Southern Albania. In this part, the lecture explained various methodological approaches to the study of routes and space through the ethnography of (im)mobility. The third part presented the fieldwork on “The health and friendship route – Parenzana”, once a narrow gauge railway from Trieste to Poreč and the “Panoramic boat trip” from Izola to Piran.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537031108The core of this exhibition is a life story of one of Istrian egg sellers, a woman called Marija Franca from Gračišče, and an ethnographic photo comic strip of her trade route. The photo comics emerged out of research and documentation of Marija’s circular route between Gračišče, the villages around Buzet and Trieste. The representation of her life and trade route includes excerpts from her interviews, interviews with her daughters, passages from her books Šavrinka stories I, II, and III as well as excerpts from the fieldwork diaries of the exhibition authors, which they wrote on route.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
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