Catharina Raudvere is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and directs its research centre ‘Many Roads in Modernity. South-East Europe and its Ottoman Roots’. Her most recent publications include studies of Islam and Muslim life in Bosnia and the edited Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past. History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World (2016).

“The book is valuable as an introduction to this topic of memory and identity studies, and can be recommended for students in the field of international relations with a focus on Southeast Europe, as well as for scholars wanting to continue research in the direc­tions mentioned.” (Maria Bostenaru Dan, Südosteuropa, Vol. 67 (2), 2019)

• 1. Loss and Creativity – Affect and Effect: Political and Cultural Representations of the Past in South-East Europe; Catharina Raudvere.- 2. Transforming a Totalitarian Edifice Artistic and Ethnographic Engagements with the House of the People in Bucharest; Ger Duijzings.- 3. Battles of Nostalgic Proportion: The Transformations of Islam-as-Historical-Force in Western Balkan Reconstitutions of the Past; Isa Blumi.- 4. The Economy of Nostalgia: Communist Pathos between Politics and Advertisement;Tanja Zimmermann.- 5. ‘Everything Has its Place in God’s Imaret’: Nostalgic Visions of Coexistence in Contemporary Greek Historical Fiction; Trine Stauning Willert.- 6. ‘This is a Country for You’: Yugo-nostalgia and Antinationalism in the Rock-Music Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Zlatko Jovanovic.- 7. Domesticating Kemalism: Conflicting Muslim Narratives about Turkey in Interwar Yugoslavia; Fabio Giomi.- 8. Writing for Survival: Letters of Sarajevo Jews before their Liquidation during WorldWar II; Francine Friedman.- 9. Enduring Bonds of Place: Personhood and the Loss of Home; Renee Hirschon.

Catharina Raudvere is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and directs its research centre ‘Many Roads in Modernity. South-East Europe and its Ottoman Roots’. Her most recent publications include studies of Islam and Muslim life in Bosnia and the edited Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past. History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World (2016).

“The book is valuable as an introduction to this topic of memory and identity studies, and can be recommended for students in the field of international relations with a focus on Southeast Europe, as well as for scholars wanting to continue research in the direc­tions mentioned.” (Maria Bostenaru Dan, Südosteuropa, Vol. 67 (2), 2019)

• 1. Loss and Creativity – Affect and Effect: Political and Cultural Representations of the Past in South-East Europe; Catharina Raudvere.- 2. Transforming a Totalitarian Edifice Artistic and Ethnographic Engagements with the House of the People in Bucharest; Ger Duijzings.- 3. Battles of Nostalgic Proportion: The Transformations of Islam-as-Historical-Force in Western Balkan Reconstitutions of the Past; Isa Blumi.- 4. The Economy of Nostalgia: Communist Pathos between Politics and Advertisement;Tanja Zimmermann.- 5. ‘Everything Has its Place in God’s Imaret’: Nostalgic Visions of Coexistence in Contemporary Greek Historical Fiction; Trine Stauning Willert.- 6. ‘This is a Country for You’: Yugo-nostalgia and Antinationalism in the Rock-Music Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Zlatko Jovanovic.- 7. Domesticating Kemalism: Conflicting Muslim Narratives about Turkey in Interwar Yugoslavia; Fabio Giomi.- 8. Writing for Survival: Letters of Sarajevo Jews before their Liquidation during WorldWar II; Francine Friedman.- 9. Enduring Bonds of Place: Personhood and the Loss of Home; Renee Hirschon.

Catharina Raudvere is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and directs its research centre ‘Many Roads in Modernity. South-East Europe and its Ottoman Roots’. Her most recent publications include studies of Islam and Muslim life in Bosnia and the edited Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past. History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World (2016).

“The book is valuable as an introduction to this topic of memory and identity studies, and can be recommended for students in the field of international relations with a focus on Southeast Europe, as well as for scholars wanting to continue research in the direc­tions mentioned.” (Maria Bostenaru Dan, Südosteuropa, Vol. 67 (2), 2019)

• 1. Loss and Creativity – Affect and Effect: Political and Cultural Representations of the Past in South-East Europe; Catharina Raudvere.- 2. Transforming a Totalitarian Edifice Artistic and Ethnographic Engagements with the House of the People in Bucharest; Ger Duijzings.- 3. Battles of Nostalgic Proportion: The Transformations of Islam-as-Historical-Force in Western Balkan Reconstitutions of the Past; Isa Blumi.- 4. The Economy of Nostalgia: Communist Pathos between Politics and Advertisement;Tanja Zimmermann.- 5. ‘Everything Has its Place in God’s Imaret’: Nostalgic Visions of Coexistence in Contemporary Greek Historical Fiction; Trine Stauning Willert.- 6. ‘This is a Country for You’: Yugo-nostalgia and Antinationalism in the Rock-Music Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Zlatko Jovanovic.- 7. Domesticating Kemalism: Conflicting Muslim Narratives about Turkey in Interwar Yugoslavia; Fabio Giomi.- 8. Writing for Survival: Letters of Sarajevo Jews before their Liquidation during WorldWar II; Francine Friedman.- 9. Enduring Bonds of Place: Personhood and the Loss of Home; Renee Hirschon.