Remitting, Restoring and Building Contemporary Albania

Nataša Gregorič Bon is a social anthropologist and Research Fellow at the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). Since 2016, she has been an Assistant Professor at the Postgraduate School, ZRC SAZU. Her long-standing research in Albania revolves around spatial anthropology, (non)movements and (im)mobility, border dynamic, anthropology of water and environmental anthropology. She is the author of the Spaces of Discordance: Ethnhnography of Space and Place in Dhërmi/Drimades in Southern Albania (2008) and co-editor of the volume Moving Places: Relations, Return and Belonging (2016). Smoki Musaraj is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Ohio University, USA. She is a cultural anthropologist with a specialization in economic and legal anthropology. Her research focuses on the anthropology of money and value; informal economies; speculative bubbles; anthropology of corruption; postsocialist transformations; and societies of South Europe and the Mediterranean. She is author of Tales from Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania (2020) and co-editor of Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Inclusion, and Design (2018).

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Remitting, Building, and Restoring Contemporary Albania.- Chapter 2. Temporalities of Concrete: Housing Imaginaries in Albania.- Chapter 3. Tirana Quixotic: Literature as Mediator of Imagination and Reality.- Chapter 4. The Winding Routes of Kuçedra: Understanding the Water Futures in Contemporary Albania.- Chapter 5. Cosmic Languages, Babel, and Indo-European Quantum Physics: Emic Linguistics and Myths about Language in Albanian Neo-religiosity.- Chapter 6. “Othering” the Self: The Production of Difference Through Art in Postsocialist Albania.- Chapter 7. Photography and Régime D’historicité: Past, Present, and Future in Two Photographic Albums on Communist Albania.- Chapter 8. On the Road: Albania’s Migratory Past, Present, and Future.- Chapter 9. Reimagining Sites of Memory: Conceptualization of Space, Memory, and History of State Violence of Communist Albania.- Chapter 10. Heterotopias of Displacement: The Production of Space in Postsocialist Albania.- Chapter 11. The Age of Understanding: Modernity and Modernization in the Twenty Century’s Albania.- Chapter 12. Epilogue.