Sources

Compiled for the exhibition and its accompanying discursive space, which draws inspiration from the atmosphere and social role of a traditional Kosovo teahouse, this list gathers sources that informed the exhibition texts and marks the beginning of a growing collection. The collection will travel to Kosovo, where it will become part of the future library at the Runik House of Culture, set to reopen in 2027. Revived by Hajde! Founded by Petrit Halilaj and curator Hana Halilaj, the House is envisioned as a community space for art, learning, memory, and cultural life.

The digital sources were downloaded whenever they were available through legitimate, non-institutional access. 

The library does not aim to be exhaustive, nor should the inclusion of a source be understood as an endorsement of its arguments or positions. The titles marked by stars have been used as references for the opening exhibition text. 

Digital copies available HERE

  1. Dimitrijević, Nemanja S. “Reagovanje i planovi rukovodstva Srbije i Crne Gore tokom kosovsko-metohijske krize (17–19. mart 2004).” Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Prištini 54, no. 1 (2024): 197–211. https://doi.org/10.5937/zrffp54-45097.. pdf. ★
  2. Iacopino, Vincanne, et al. “Patterns of Displacement and Human Rights Abuses Among Kosovar Refugees.” American Journal of Public Health 91, no. 12 (2001).. pdf. 
  3. Calic, Marie-Janine. A History of Yugoslavia. Translated by Dona Geyer. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2019.. pdf. ★
  4. Duijzings, Ger. Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo. London: Hurst, 2000.. pdf. ★
  5. Dushku, Ledia. “A Homeland Beyond Borders: Diaspora Diplomacy and Transnational Nationalism in the Albanian State-Building Process (1912–1920).” Istorija 20. veka 44, no. 1 (2026): 15–32. https://doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2026.1.dus.15-32.. pdf. ★
  6. Prishtina, Hasan. Nji Shkurtim Kujtimesh Mbi Kryengritjen Shqyptare te Vjetit 1912. pdf. 
  7. Cvijić, Jovan. Balkansko poluostrvo i južnoslovenske zemlje.. pdf. ★
  8. Limits of Representation: Film As Political School, Vol. 2.. pdf. 
  9. Hashani, Ylli, and Bujar Dugolli. “Serbian Programs for the Expulsion of Albanian Kosovars from Kosovo Between Two World Wars.” Eminak, no. 43 (2023).. pdf. ★
  10. Alija, Kosovar, and Ibrahim Gashi. “The Rise of Serbian Nationalism After the Death of J.B. Tito: Attacks on the Constitutional Rights of the Autonomous Socialist Province of Kosovo (1981–1989).” Eminak, no. 52 (2025).. pdf. 
  11. Rexhepi, Piro. White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.. pdf. 
  12. Lichnofsky, Claudia, Enriketa Pandelejmoni, and Darko Stojanov, eds. Myths and Mythical Spaces: Conditions and Challenges for History Textbooks in Albania and South-Eastern Europe. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2017.. pdf. 
  13. Archer, Rory. “Albanian Labor Migration, the Yugoslav Private Sector and Its Cold War Context.” Labor History (2023).. pdf. ★
  14. Dushi, Arbnora. “Approaches of the Albanian Folkloristic in Kosovo: Background, Researches, Publications.” Traditiones 48, no. 3 (2019): 73–91.. pdf. ★
  15. Fischer, Bernd J., and Oliver Jens Schmitt. A Concise History of Albania. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.. pdf. 
  16. Magaš, Branka. The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-Up. London: Verso, 1993.. pdf. 
  17. Arapi, Ina. “Das nach 300 Jahren gedruckte Italienisch-Albanische Wörterbuch von Francesco Maria da Lecce (1702).” Südost-Forschungen 74 (2015).. pdf. ★
  18. Djordjević, Andjela, and Rok Zupančič. “‘Undivided’ City in a Divided Society: Explaining the Peaceful Coexistence of Albanians and Serbs in Kamenicë/Kamenica, Kosovo.” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 25, no. 4 (2025): 525–543. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2024.2324550. pdf. 
  19. Hetemi, Atdhe. Student Movements for the Republic of Kosovo: 1968, 1981 and 1997. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.. pdf. 
  20. Elsie, Robert. A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology and Folk Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2001.. pdf. 
  21. Čubrilović, Vaso. The Expulsion of the Albanians. 1937.. pdf. ★
  22. Ademi, Haxhi, and Oktaj Hasani. “Kosovo: From Occupation to Liberation: A Historical Perspective from the Balkan Wars 1912/13 to the War of Kosovo 1998/99.” Eminak, no. 48 (2024). https://doi.org/10.33782/eminak2024.4(48).760. pdf. 
  23. Hoti, Ukshin. Filozofa Politike e Çështjes Shqiptare. Edited by Bislim Elshani. Tirana: Rozafa, 1995.. pdf. ★
  24. Halili, Rigels. Naród i jego pieśni: Rzecz o oralności, piśmienności i epice ludowej wśród Albańczyków i Serbów. Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2012.. pdf. ★
  25. Archer, Rory. “‘I Entered the Army as a Yugoslav and Left It as an Albanian Nationalist’: Albanians Serving in the Yugoslav People’s Army during the 1980s.” Südost-Forschungen 83 (2024).. pdf. ★
  26. Independent International Commission on Kosovo. The Kosovo Report. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.. pdf. 
  27. Janjetović, Zoran. “Albanian National Identity in the Eyes of the Albanians and the Serbs.” In The Multi-ethnic State and National Identities: The Serbian Experience in the 20th Century, 357–379. Belgrade: Institute for Contemporary History, 2024. https://doi.org/10.29362/2024.2961.jan.357-379.. pdf. ★
  28. Jelača, Dijana, Maša Kolanović, and Danijela Lugarić, eds. The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47482-3.. pdf. ★
  29. Judah, Tim. The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.. pdf. ★
  30. Kolaković, Aleksandra, and Nikola Perišić. “Public History and the Politics of Memory: The 500th Anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo (1889) and the Public Shaping of Serbian Nationhood.” Srpska politička misao 92, no. 4 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5937/spm92-60579. pdf. 
  31. Bataković, Dušan T. Kosovo and Metohija: Living in the Enclave. Belgrade: Institute for Balkan Studies, 2007.. pdf. ★
  32. Kušić, Katarina. Review of White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route, by Piro Rexhepi.. pdf. 
  33. Di Lellio, Anna, and Arbnora Dushi. “Gender Performance and Gendered Warriors in Albanian Epic Poetry.” In edited volume. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429286698-30. pdf. ★
  34. Lutfiu, Skender, and Mentor Hasani. “Diplomatic Relations of Albania with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (1925–1928).” Eminak, no. 47 (2024). https://doi.org/10.33782/eminak2024.3(47).739. pdf. 
  35. Bieber, Florian. “Nationalist Mobilization and Stories of Serb Suffering: The Kosovo Myth from 600th Anniversary to the Present.” Rethinking History 6, no. 1 (2002).. pdf. 
  36. Bracewell, Wendy. “Rape in Kosovo: Masculinity and Serbian Nationalism.” Nations and Nationalism 6, no. 4 (2000).. pdf. 
  37. Boynik, Sezgin, and Minna L. Henriksson, eds. Noise after Babel: Language Unrestrained. First edition. Leipzig: Dreen, 2015.. pdf. ★
  38. Orel, Vladimir. Etymological Dictionary of Albanian. Leiden: Brill, 2000.. pdf. 
  39. Perić, Nenad, and Ana Jevtović. “‘Kosovization’ of Serbian Monumental Culture and Creation of New Identities.” Baština 34, no. 63 (2024). https://doi.org/10.5937/bastina34-51338. pdf. 
  40. Petrović, Aleksandar, and Đorđe Stefanović. “Kosovo, 1944–1981: The Rise and the Fall of a Communist ‘Nested Homeland’.” Europe-Asia Studies 62, no. 7 (2010): 1073–1106. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2010.497016. pdf. 
  41. Kosovo Police, Regional Police Directorate Mitrovica South. Police Report, Criminal Report, and Forensic File for the Incident ‘Zjarrevenje’.. pdf. 
  42. Baker, Catherine. Race and the Yugoslav Region. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.. pdf. ★
  43. Pavlović, Aleksandar, Gazela Pudar Draško, and Rigels Halili, eds. Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations: Figuring Out the Enemy. Abingdon: Routledge.. pdf. 
  44. Çanta, Agnesa, and Leonora Husaj. “A Contrastive Analysis of Frequently Used Idioms in English and Albanian.” Studies in Linguistics, Culture and FLT 12, no. 2 (2024).. pdf. ★
  45. Frashëri, Sami. Shqipëria — ç’ka qenë, ç’është e ç’do të bëhetë? Bucharest, 1899.. pdf. ★
  46. Haxhiaj, Serbeze. “Schoolbooks Perpetuate Kosovo-Serbia Divisions in Classrooms.” Balkan Insight, October 3, 2019.. pdf. 
  47. Zdravković-Zonta, Helena. “Serbs as Threat: The Extreme Negative Portrayal of the Serb ‘Minority’ in Albanian-Language Newspapers in Kosovo.” Balcanica XLII (2011): 165–216. https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1142165Z. pdf. 
  48. Dibra, Vjollca. “Social and Historic Contextuality of Contemporary Albanian Literature: Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro.” Prizren Social Science Journal 2, no. 3 (2018): 79–85. https://doi.org/10.32936/pssj.v2i3.65.. pdf. ★
  49. Islami, Hivzi. Demografia — popullsia shqiptare e Kosovës. Prishtina: Dukagjini, 1994.. pdf. ★
  50. Subotić, Jelena. Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.. pdf. 
  51. The Snake and the King’s Daughter: Albanian Literature and Folktales.. pdf. ★
  52. Clayer, Nathalie. pdf. 
  53. Archer, Rory, Robert Pichler, and Mladen Zobec. “Towards a Social History of Albanians in Socialist Yugoslavia: An Introduction.” Südost-Forschungen 83 (2024).. pdf. ★
  54. Clark, Howard. Civil Resistance in Kosovo. London: Pluto Press, 2000.. pdf. ★
  55. Žižek, Slavoj, and Agon Hamza. From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo.. pdf. 
  56. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Serbian Artistic Heritage in Kosovo. Belgrade: SASA Gallery, 2012.. pdf. 
  57. Visoka, Gëzim, and Vjosa Musliu. Unravelling Liberal Interventionism: Local Critiques of International Governance in Kosovo. London: Routledge, 2019.. pdf. 
  58. “Production of Old Serbia Following the Travel Writers: Tracing the Folklore.”.  pdf. 
  59. “Reconquista of Old Serbia: On Continuity of Territorial and Demographic Policies in Kosovo.”.  pdf. 
  60. “Serbian-Albanian Mixed Marriages: When Patriarchy Breaks the Barriers of Nationalism.”.  pdf. 
  61. “Serbian-Albanian Relations in Socialist Yugoslavia: Protests in Kosovo and the Burden of Systemic Legitimization.”.  pdf. 
  62. “The Community of the Dispossessed: Women’s Peace Coalition.”.  pdf. 
  63. “The Figure of Other as an Open Project as Exemplified by Albanian Writers from Albania and Kosovo.”.  pdf. 
  64. “The Kosovo War During 1998–1999 in the History Textbooks in Kosovo and Serbia.”.  pdf. 
  65. Vasa, Pashko. La Vérité sur l’Albanie et les Albanais: Étude historique et critique. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1879.. pdf. 
  66. “Endangering Masculinity in Kosova: Can Albanian Women Say No?.”.  pdf. ★
  67. Todorova, Maria. “War and Memory: Trotsky’s War Correspondence from the Balkan Wars.” Perceptions 18, no. 2 (2013).. pdf. 
  68. Wolf, Julia. Re-Visioning Histories in der Gegenwartskunst. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2024.. pdf. 
  69. Žanić, Ivo, and Branka Magaš. The War in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1991–1995. London: Frank Cass, 2001.. pdf. 
  70. Declaration on a Common Language. 2017.. pdf. 
  71. Ramet, Sabrina P., Albert Simkus, and Ola Listhaug. Civic and Uncivic Values in Kosovo: History, Politics, and Value Transformation. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2015.. pdf. 
  72. Stojanović, Dubravka. Ulje na Vodi: Ogledi iz istorije sadašnjosti Srbije. Belgrade: Peščanik, 2010.. pdf. 
  73. Judah, Tim. Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.. pdf. ★
  74. Gordy, Eric. Guilt, Responsibility, and Denial: The Past at Stake in Post-Milošević Serbia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.. pdf. ★
  75. Knežević, Vida, Kristian Lukić, Ivana Marjanović, and Gordana Nikolić, eds. Slobodni i suvereni: Umetnost, teorija i politika. Knjiga eseja i intervjua o Kosovu i Srbiji [Free and Sovereign: Art, Theory and Politics]. Belgrade: Cenzura / NAPON / Kontekst kolektiv, 2013.. pdf. ★
  76. Kosovo: Failure to Protect Report 2004. 2004.. pdf. 
  77. Alrhmoun, Mousaab, Naji Sulaiman, and Andrea Pieroni. “What Drives Herbal Traditions? The Influence of Ecology and Cultural Exchanges on Wild Plant Teas in the Balkan Mountains.” Land 13, no. 12 (2024).. pdf. ★
  78. Pichler, Robert, Hannes Grandits, and Ruža Fotiadis. “Kosovo in the Yugoslav 1980s: Yugoslav Perspectives and Interpretations.” Südost-Forschungen (2021).. pdf. 
  79. Golemi, Marinela. “Othello in the Balkans: Performing Race Rhetoric on the Albanian Stage.” Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance 22, no. 37 (2020): 125–138. https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.22.08. pdf. ★
  80. Garašanin, Ilija. Načertanije. 1844.. pdf. 
  81. Saggau, Emil Hilton. “Kosovo Crucified: Narratives in the Contemporary Serbian Orthodox Position on Kosovo.” Religions 10, no. 10 (2019).. pdf. 
  82. Boynik, Sezgin, and Tevfik Rada, eds. See You in the Next War / Shihemi në Luftën e Ardhshme. Film as Political School 3. Prishtina: National Gallery of Kosovo, 2024.. pdf. ★

Physical copies

  • Akademia e Shkencave dhe e Arteve e Kosovës (ASHAK). Platforma për zgjidhjen e çështjes shqiptare. Prishtina: ASHAK, 1998. ★
  • Çetta, Anton. Këngë kreshnike. 2 vols. Prishtina: Instituti Albanologjik, 1974–1980. ★
  • Republic of Kosovo. Ministry of Internal Affairs. Kosovo Police. Regional Police Directorate Mitrovica South. Police report, criminal report, and forensic file for the incident “Zjarrevenje” (case no. 2025-BF-203; forensic file no. 25-035). June 20 and December 2, 2025. ★
  • Todorova, Maria. Imaginarni Balkan. Belgrade: n.p., n.d. Originally published as Imagining the Balkans (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). ★
  • Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House, 1969. 
  • Berisha, Rrustem, Sadri Fetiu, and Jahir Ahmeti, eds. Rizah Bllaca: Këngë Popullore. Vol. 1. Prishtinë: Instituti Albanologjik i Prishtinës, 1997. 
  • Beronja, Vlad, and Stijn Vervaet, eds. Post-Yugoslav Constellations: Archive, Memory, and Trauma in Contemporary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Literature and Culture. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.. 
  • Biticu, Sergio. Kosovo: Path to Freedom. New York: Pan Albanian Federation of America, 2012. 
  • Buden, Boris. Zona Prelaska: O kraju postkomunizma. Belgrade: Fabrika knjiga, 2012.
  • Bytyçi, Artrit. The Arbiter. Tirana: StoryLab, n.d.. 
  • Ćurak, Nerzuk. Dejtonski nacionalizam. Sarajevo: Buybook, 2004.. 
  • Fowkes, Maja, and Reuben Fowkes. Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950. World of Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2020.. 
  • Gashi, Shkëlzen. Masakrat në Kosovë / Masakri na Kosovu / The Massacres in Kosovo, 1998–1999. Prishtinë: Admovere & Integra, 2024.. 
  • Gimbutas, Marija. The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.. 
  • Halilaj, Petrit, and Alvaro Urbano, eds. Kushtetuta. N.p.: n.p., 2012–.. 
  • Halilaj, Petrit. of course blue affects my way of shitting. Berlin: Chert; Zurich: Motto Books, 2014.. 
  • Haliti, Bardhi. May 25 Is Now October 1. Zurich: CPRESS, 2019.. 
  • Hashani, Yusuf, ed. The Constitution of Kosovo: Europe’s Newest Nation. Bilingual ed. CS Publishing, 2018.. 
  • Henriksson, Minna, and Sezgin Boynik, eds. Contemporary Art and Nationalism: Critical Reader. Prishtinë: Institute of Contemporary Art “EXIT” / Center for Humanistic Studies “Gani Bobi,” 2007.. 
  • Jones, Lynne. Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017.. 
  • Krulic, Josip. Storia della Jugoslavia: dal 1945 ai nostri giorni. Translated by Maria Grazia Meriggi. 3rd ed. Milano: RCS Libri / Bompiani, 1999. Originally published as Histoire de la Yougoslavie de 1945 à nos jours (Brussels: Éditions Complexe, 1993).. 
  • Maliqi, Shkëlzen. Nyja e Kosovës. 2nd ed. Prishtinë: Revista MM / Qendra për Studime Humanistike “Gani Bobi,” 2010.. 
  • Mandić, Marija, and Ana Sivački. “Language Use and Ethno-political Conflict: The Case of Albanian in Contemporary Belgrade.” In Figura e armikut, edited by Rigels Halili et al. Prishtinë: Qendra Multimedia, 2016.. 
  • Manning, Olivia. The Balkan Trilogy. London: Windmill Books, 2021.. 
  • Pejić, Bojana, ed. Gender Check: A Reader: Art and Gender in Eastern Europe Since the 1960s. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010.. 
  • Phillips, David L. Liberating Kosovo: Coercive Diplomacy and U.S. Intervention. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.. 
  • Politi, Giancarlo, ed. Tirana Biennale 1: Escape. Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 2002.. 
  • Rexha, Enver, ed. Kosova Archaeologica / Kosova Arkeologjike 3. Prishtinë: Instituti Arkeologjik i Kosovës, 2022.. 
  • Rynning, Sten. NATO: From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024.. 
  • Schendl, Katharina, Sezgin Boynik, Charles Esche, Bardhi Haliti, and Dren Maliqi. Notes on Contemporary Art in Kosovo. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019.. 
  • Tucović, Dimitrije. Serbia and Albania: A Contribution to the Critique of the Conquest Policy of the Serbian Bourgeoisie. N.p.: n.p., 1914. Reprint, n.p., n.d.. 
  • Tumbas, Jasmina. “I Am Jugoslovenka!”: Feminist Performance Politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism. Rethinking Art’s Histories. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.. 
  • Vargas Llosa, Mario. Çështja e Kosovës. Tiranë: Onufri, 1999.. 
  • Velikonja, Mitja. Post-Socialist Political Graffiti in the Balkans and Central Europe. Southeast European Studies. London: Routledge, 2020.. 
  • Achcar, Gilbert. The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2023.. 
  • Manifesta 14 Prishtina. Otherwise: Manifesta 14 Prishtina 2022. Prishtina: Manifesta 14 Prishtina, 2022. https://manifesta.org/publications/otherwise.. 
  • Rexha, Enver, ed. Kosova Archaeologica / Kosova Arkeologjike 3. Prishtinë: Instituti Arkeologjik i Kosovës, 2022. 
  • Recommended readings
  • Abdyl Frashëri et al. Memorandumet e Lidhjes së Prizrenit / Programi i Lidhjes Shqiptare të Prizrenit. Prizren, 1878–1881.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Altic, Mirela. Kosovo: History in Maps. Mapping the Past. Leiden: Brill, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004732025.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Archer, Rory, Igor Duda, and Paul Stubbs, eds. Social Inequalities and Discontent in Yugoslav Socialism. Southeast European Studies. London: Routledge, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315609461.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Atanasovski, Srđan. “Producing Old Serbia: In the Footsteps of Travel-Writers, on the Path of Folklore.” In Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations, edited by Aleksandar Pavlović, Gazela Pudar Draško, and Rigels Halili, 22–38. London: Routledge, 2019.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Bădescu, Gruia. “‘Even Romanians Come Research Us Now’: On Positionality in Southeast European Studies, between ti si naš and Nested Orientalisms.” Südost-Forschungen 81 (2022): 57–71. https://doi.org/10.1515/sofo-2022-810105.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Bogdanović, Dimitrije. Knjiga o Kosovu. Belgrade: SANU, 1985.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Boynik, Sezgin, ed. Limits of Representation. Film as Political School 2. Prishtina: National Gallery of Kosovo, 2023.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Ćirković, Sima. Srbi među europskim narodima. Belgrade: Equilibrium, 2004.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Council of Coordinating Albanian Political Parties in Yugoslavia. “Political Declaration for the Solution of the Albanian Question.” October 11, 1991.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku. Jezici i nacionalizmi, March 30, 2017.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Demaçi, Adem. Gjarpijtë e gjakut and collected prison writings. Various eds.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Di Lellio, Anna, ed. The Case for Kosova: Passage to Independence. London: Anthem Press, 2006.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Di Lellio, Anna. The Battle of Kosovo 1389: An Albanian Epic. Translated by Robert Elsie. London: I.B. Tauris, 2009.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Djordjević, Andjela, and Rok Zupančič. “‘Undivided’ City in a Divided Society: Explaining the Peaceful Coexistence of Albanians and Serbs in Kamenicë/Kamenica, Kosovo.” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 25, no. 4 (2025): 525–543. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2024.2324550.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Ejdus, Filip, and Jelena Subotić. “Kosovo as Serbia’s Sacred Space: Governmentality, Pastoral Power, and Sacralization of Territories.” In Politicization of Religion, the Power of Symbolism, edited by Gorana Ognjenović and Jasna Jozelić, 159–184. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137477897_8.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Elsie, Robert, and Bejtullah Destani, eds. Kosovo, A Documentary History: From the Balkan Wars to World War II. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350986992.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Elsie, Robert, trans. Folklor shqiptar 1, Proza popullore. Tirana, 1963.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Elsie, Robert. “The Snake and the Kings Daughter” Albanian Literature (website). Accessed March 20, 2026. www.albanianliterature.net/folktales/tale_01.html.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Elsie, Robert. A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and Folk Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2001.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Fischer, Bernd J., and Oliver Jens Schmitt. A Concise History of Albania. Cambridge Concise Histories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139084611.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Serbian Artistic Heritage in Kosovo and Metohija: Identity, Significance, Vulnerability. Publication 141. Belgrade: Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2017.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Gashi, Shkëlzen. “Conflicted Narratives: The 1998–1999 Kosovo War in History Textbooks in Kosovo and Serbia.” In Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations, edited by Aleksandar Pavlović, Gazela Pudar Draško, and Rigels Halili, 98–108. London: Routledge, 2019.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Georgevitch, V. Die Albanesen und die Großmächte. Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel, [1913?].. reading recommendation. ★
  • Grandits, Hannes, Robert Pichler, and Ruža Fotiadis, eds. Special issue, “Kosovo in the Yugoslav 1980s.” Comparative Southeast European Studies 69, nos. 2–3 (2021).. reading recommendation. ★
  • Hadri, Ali. Lëvizja Nacionalçlirimtare në Kosovë 1941–1945. Prishtina: Rilindja, 1971.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Halili, Rigels, Aleksandar Pavlović, Armanda Hysa, and Adriana Zaharijević, eds. Figura e armikut: Ripërfytyrimi i marrëdhënieve shqiptaro-serbe [The Figure of the Enemy: Reimagining Albanian-Serbian Relations]. Prishtinë: Qendra Multimedia, 2016.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Halili, Rigels. “Figure of the Other as an Open Project: As Exemplified by Albanian Writers from Albania and Kosovo.” In Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations, edited by Aleksandar Pavlović, Gazela Pudar Draško, and Rigels Halili, 111–126. London: Routledge, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351273169-7.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Hamza, Agon, and Frank Ruda, eds. Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Hamza, Agon, ed. Althusser and Theology: Religion, Politics and Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2016.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Hamza, Agon, ed. Repeating Žižek. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Hamza, Agon. Althusser and Pasolini: Philosophy, Marxism, and Film. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Hehn, Paul N. “The Origins of Modern Pan-Serbism: The 1844 Načertanije of Ilija Garašanin: An Analysis and Translation.” East European Quarterly 9, no. 2 (Summer 1975): 153–171.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Hetemi, Atdhe. Student Movements for the Republic of Kosovo: 1968, 1981 and 1997. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54952-7.. reading recommendation. ★
  • Hilton Saggau, Emil. “Kosovo Crucified—Narratives in the Contemporary Serbian Orthodox Perception of Kosovo.” Religions 10, no. 10 (2019): 578. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10100578.. reading recommendation. ★
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