Civic and Uncivic Values in Macedonia: Value Transformation, Education and Media - Hardcover

Gaining its independence in 1991, after having been included in socialist Yugoslavia for more than four decades, the Republic of Macedonia has struggled to consolidate its democratic system and independence, and to gain admission into the European Union and NATO, against dogged opposition from Greece. One of the central challenges facing Macedonia, along with other Yugoslav successor states, is to develop civic values and to combat such uncivic values as ethnic intolerance, religious bigotry, and homophobia. This volume brings together leading specialists in Macedonian affairs, both from within Macedonia and from other countries, to offer insights into the experiences and values of the Macedonians, with separate chapters devoted to the media, history textbooks, fiction, the Albanians of Macedonia, and smaller ethnic minorities, as well as other subjects.

STEFANO BIANCHINI Professor of East European Politics and History at the University of Bologna, Italy MAJA BOJADZIEVSKA Professor of comparative literature at the University of Skopje, Macedonia BASHKIM ISENI Researcher at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Populations Study at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. HASAN JASHARI Associate Professor and the Director for Doctoral studies at the South East European University in Tetovë, Macedonia DEJAN MAROLOV Assistant Professor at the Goce Delcev University in Stip, Macedonia KRISTEN RINGDAL Professor of Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, and a senior researcher with the Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO, Oslo, Norway ANDREW ROSSOS Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Canada ISO RUSI is a journalist. He started his professional career with Mlad borec in 1971, and later cooperated with Danas (Zagreb), Delo (Ljubljana), Teleks (Ljubljana), and Na a borba (Belgrade) GORDANA SILJANOVSKA-DAVKOVA Professor of Consitutional Law and Political System at the Law Faculty 'Iustinianus Primus' in Skopje, Macedonia VESNA OPAR Professor of Public Relations at University of Tourism and Management, Skopje, Macedonia KATERINA SPASOVSKA Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Western Carolina University, USA IRENA STEFOSKA Assistant Professor of Ancient and Medieval History at the Institute of National History, University of Skopje, Macedonia ILO TRAJKOVSKI Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Skopje, Macedonia FRANCES TRIX Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Indiana University, USA BILJANA VANKOVSKA Professor of Political Studies and head of the MA in peace and development at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, Macedonia ANDREW WACHTEL Dean of the Graduate School and the Bertha and Max Dressler Professor of the Humanities, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA