Lehrende: Dr. Elisa Satjukow
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Orga-Einheit: 03-Geschichte
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Offizielle Kursbeschreibung: In 2015, the notion of the Balkan route gained popularity as hundreds of thousands of people fled the conflicts in the Middle East and made their way from Greece towards Central Europe. The arrival of these refugees was and still is the subject of a controversial debate, however the term Balkan route itself was hardly the matter of criticism. Nevertheless, talking about the Balkan route not only means talking about infrastructures of human mobility, but carried some problematic assumptions about migration always pointing westwards as well as about the region itself as a non-European transit zone. There is in fact a long history of people and goods crossing the region, coming from or leaving in multiple directions. From a historical perspective, the seminar deals with different forms of mobility on and across the Balkans. On the one hand, we will ask about the various ways in which people and goods moved and were being moved along the Balkan route — from the Ottoman times to the guest worker programs to the long summer of migration in 2015. On the other hand, we critically inspect the very notion of the Balkan route and analyse it in terms of the ideas and concepts of mobility and (European) belonging it perpetuates.
Organisatorisches: Please note: The course is held in cooperation with the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück and aimed at advanced students from history, European studies and other disciplines. Priority will be given to those who take the course over two semesters (as Module 03-HIS-0255 in the summer term) and participate in the one-week excursion to Croatia and Bosnia in the spring of 2022. We especially welcome students with a (basic) knowledge in Serbo-Croatian or the will to attend a language course parallel to the seminar at the Leipzig University Language Centre. Please send an email to express your interest to elisa.satjukow@uni-leipzig.de
Literatur: Florian Riedler/Nenad Stefanov: The Balkan Route. Historical Transformations from Via Militaris to Autoput, DeGruyter 2021. Manuela Boatca: Semiperipheries in the world-system: Reflecting Eastern European and Latin American experiences, Journal of World-Systems Research, 2006, 321-346. Marijana Hameršak, Sabine Hess, Marc Speer, Marta Stojic Mitrovic (2020): The Forging of the Balkan Route. Contextualizing the Border Regime in the EU Periphery. In: movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies 5 (1).
