Editorial

Urban Life – Urban Culture

Thomas Hengartner, Hamburg
“Exploring the City”. Ways and Concepts of (Western) Urban Anthropology

Keith Brown, Providence (Rhode Island)
The Knowable City: Interpretation, Social Science, Activism

Alexander Maxwell, Reno (Nevada)
Budapest and Thessaloniki as Slavic Cities (1800–1914): Urban Infrastructures, National Organizations and Ethnic Territories

Dubravka Stojanović, Belgrade
Rural Against Urban: Anti-Urban Discourse and Ideology in Early Twentieth Century Serbia

Petko Hristov, Sofia
Places to Exchange Cultural Patterns: The Market and the “Piazza for Hired Labor” in Sofia

Ulf Brunnbauer, Berlin
“The Town of the Youth”. Dimitrovgrad and Bulgarian Socialism

Daniela Koleva, Sofia
Rural-Urban Migration in the Normal Biography

Miloš Matić, Belgrade
Urban Economics in a Rural Manner. Family Economizing in Some Socialist Serbian Cities

Stef Jansen, Manchester (UK)
Who’s Afraid of White Socks? Towards a Critical Understanding of Post-Yugoslav Urban Self-Perceptions

Evgenia Krăsteva-Blagoeva, Sofia
Country House Ownership: a Rural-Urban Phenomenon in Bulgaria

Gen Fujii, London
Ruins, Decay and New Constructions: Materializing Family in Postsocialist Housing in Gjirokastër, Southern Albania

Ivaylo Ditchev, Sofia
Cities on Borders: the Stronghold Complex

Robert M. Hayden, Pittsburgh
Religious Structures and Political Dominance in Belgrade

Miroslava Malešević, Belgrade
The Introduction of Religion to State Schools in Serbia and “Orthodox(is)ing” the Identity of Serbian Youth

Mateja Sedmak, Koper
Social Inclusion/Exclusion of Immigrant Groups in Urban Slovenia. The Case of Istria

Cerasela Voiculescu, Bucharest
Production and Consumption of Folk-Pop Music in Postsocialist Romania: Discourse and Practice

Igor Duda, Zagreb
Escaping the City: Leisure Travel in Croatia in the 1950s and 1960s

Peter Stanković, Ljubljana
Soccer and Nationalism in Slovenia

Ágnes Rajacic, Canterbury
Private Morals versus European Politics. The Mobilisation of National Myths from Hungary’s Millennium (2000) to EU Integration (2004)

Alenka Švab, Ljubljana
Public Homophobia and the Privatisation of Homosexuality. Everyday Lives of Gay and Lesbian Couples in Slovenia

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