Introduction

Abstract

The edited volume is made up of five parts. All chapters are engaged with the crisis-ridden reality in response to which Kosovo needs to develop its policymaking. Even though the concept of crisis per se is not theoretically or conceptually elaborated in this volume, it is clear that all chapters are analysing policy areas that are challenged by the complex geopolitical and socio-economic setting. Part I, entitled ‘Old and New Boundaries: Community Dynamics and Identity Constructions’, focuses on community and societal questions. Four chapters in this part tackle various aspects of community boundary-making; not only along the traditional ethnic dimension and its official manifestations epitomised in the Prishtina-Belgrade negotiations, but also in relation to how young Kosovars negotiate their identity, their place in and relationship to Europe, how school textbooks deal with the recent traumatic past and how feminist civic activisms in Kosovo and Serbia rediscover cross-border solidarities.