Carolin Leutloff-Grandits

The book analyzes inter-group relations in a war-torn region of postsocialist Croatia which previously had a large Serbian population. The focus is on the legitimizing discourses, structures, and agencies which regulate access to houses and land. It explores the role of ethnicity and locality in everyday life and in politics and shows that the views of Knin Croats often diverge from those of recent Croatian immigrants. The study contributes to theories of conflict and reconciliation as well as to the anthropology of postsocialism and legal anthropology. Carolin Leutloff-Grandits is a researcher at the Department of Southeast European History at the University of Graz (Austria).

The Dynamics of Property Relations and Ethnic Conflict in the Knin Region

Claiming Ownership in Postwar Croatia

Hastings Donnan

Migrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime to be interrupted only by death. Borders not only define separate spaces, but different temporalities. This book provides both a single interpretative frame and a novel approach to border crossing: an analysis of the reconfiguration of memory, personal and group time that follows the migrants' renegotiation of cross-border space and recalibrations of temporality.

Carolin Leutloff-Grandits

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