Balkans Unmastered
The dominant political discourses in the West portray the Balkans as Europe’s anomaly: a notorious ‘hotbed of civil war’ and a ‘bottleneck for illegal migration’ from Africa and Asia. At the same time, the region is key to the EU’s economic and geopolitical interests, not least in creating ‘green future markets’ and exploiting ‘cheap mobile labor.’ With the “Balkans Unmastered” dossier, BG provides an alternative space for discussions about and from the region: from the legacies of socialism in Yugoslavia and the post-socialist accumulation of capital and memory, to labor struggles and converging social justice and environmental movements.