The Balkans
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The Peaks of the Balkans Trail
Author: Rudolf Abraham
language: en
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited
Release Date: 2025-05-06
A guidebook to walking the 192km (119 mile) Peaks of the Balkans Trail. Presented in 10 stages of 10–28km (6–17 miles), this circular long-distance trek through the Prokletije mountains inMontenegro, Albania and Kosovo is suitable for most able walkers and can be walked in 2 weeks. The route passes Theth, Valbona, Çeremi and Dobërdol (Albania); Milishevc, Rekë e Allagës and Drelaj (Kosovo); Babino polje, Plav and Vusanje (Montenegro), and it is suitable to be walked June to October. Clear route description illustrated with 1:50,000 mapping GPX files available for download Suggestions for side trips are also given Highlights include the Theth and Valbona valleys, the Valbona Pass, Prosllopit Pass and Dobërdol Detailed practical information covering travel, permits, accommodation, language and safety
Violence in the Balkans
This is the first volume to offer an in-depth look at (lethal) violence in the Balkans. The Balkans Homicide Study analyses 3,000 (attempted) homicide cases from Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania and Slovenia. Shedding light on a region long neglected in terms of empirical violence research, the study at hand asks: - What types of homicides occur in the Balkans?- Who are the perpetrators and what motivates them?- Who are the victims and what potential protective factors are on their side?- Why do prosecutors dismiss homicide investigations? Amongst other questions and considerations, this brief discusses regional commonalities throughout the Balkans in view of their cultural,historical and normative context. Dismantling negative stereotypes of a growing and thriving Balkan society, this volume will be of interest to researchers in the Balkans, researchers of post-conflict regions, and those interested in the nature of homicide and its motivation, prevention, and various criminal justice approaches.
Notes from the Balkans
Author: Sarah F. Green
language: en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2016-09-26
Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps"--places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an iconic example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans. Drawing on richly detailed ethnographic research around the Greek-Albanian border, Sarah Green focuses her groundbreaking analysis on the ambiguities of never quite resolving where or what places are. One consequence for some Greek peoples in this border area is a seeming lack of distinction--but in a distinctly "Balkan" way. In gaps (which are never empty), marginality is, in contrast with conventional understandings, not a matter of difference and separation--it is a lack thereof. Notes from the Balkans represents the first ethnographic approach to exploring "the Balkans" as an ideological concept. Green argues that, rather than representing a tension between "West" and "East," the Balkans makes such oppositions ambiguous. This kind of marginality means that such places and peoples can hardly engage with "multiculturalism." Moreover, the region's ambiguity threatens clear, modernist distinctions. The violence so closely associated with the region can therefore be seen as part of continual attempts to resolve the ambiguities by imposing fixed separations. And every time this fails, the region is once again defined as a place that will continually proliferate such dangerous ambiguity, and could spread it somewhere else.