Book reviews

2023

• Review of Anna G Piotrowska, Music, City and the Roma under Communism, Popular Music 42:1 (2023): 104-5.

2022

• Review of Theodora K Dragostinova, The Cold War from the Margins: a Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene, Europe-Asia Studies 74:6 (2022): 1088-90.
• Review of Anita Kurimay, Queer Budapest, 1873-1961, Europe-Asia Studies 74:4 (2022): 683-4.
• Review of Věra Sokolová, Queer Encounters with Communist Power: Non-Heterosexual Lives and the State in Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1949, H-Soz-Kult, 2 November 2022.

2021

• Review of Ivor Sokolić, International Courts and Mass Atrocity: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 21:1 (2021): 172-4.
• Review of Valery Perry (ed.), Extremism and Violent Extremism in Serbia: 21st-Century Manifestations of an Historical Challenge, Europe-Asia Studies 73:2 (2021): 425-7.
• Review of James Riding, The Geopolitics of Memory: a Journey to Bosnia, Europe-Asia Studies 73:5 (2021): 956-8.

2020

• Review of Siniša Malešević, Grounded Nationalisms: a Sociological Analysis, Nations and Nationalism 26:1 (2020), 288-90
• Review of Adis Maksić, Ethnic Mobilization, Violence, and the Politics of Affect: the Serb Democratic Party and the Bosnian War, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 20:1 (2020), 237-8.
• Review of Arve Hansen, Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar Steinholt & David-Emil Wickström, A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations, Europe-Asia Studies 72:8 (2020): 1426-7.
• Review of László Péter, Forbidden Football in Ceausescu’s Romania, Soccer in Society 21:2 (2020): 255-8.

2019

• Review article, ‘Between the Round Table and the Waiting Room: Scholarship on War and Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo after the “Post-Cold-War”‘, Contemporary European History 28:1 (2019), 107-19.
• Review of Marius Turda and Maria Sophia Quine, Historicising Race, Nations and Nationalism 25:2 (2019), 747-9.
• Review of Ljubica Spaskovska, The Last Yugoslav Generation: the Rethinking of Youth Politics and Culture in Late Socialism, Europe-Asia Studies 71:4 (2019), 699-701.
• Review of Čarna Brković, Managing Ambiguity: How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slavic Review 78:3 (2019), 850-2.
• Review of Dan Healey, Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi, Europe-Asia Studies 71:2 (2019), 316-18.
• Review of Goran Miljan, Croatia and the Rise of Fascism: the Youth Movement and the Ustacha During WWII, Europe-Asia Studies 71:10 (2019): 1759-61.
• Review of Dean Vuletic, Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest, Central European History 52:3 (2019), 527-9.
• Review of Christine Hassenstab and Sabrina Petra Ramet, Gender (In)Equality in Southeastern Europe: a Question of Justice, Nations and Nationalism 25:1 (2019), 391-3.

2018

• Review of Nicholas Tochka, Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania, Central Europe 16:1 (2018), 55-7.
• Review of Johan Fornäs (ed.), Europe Faces Europe: Narratives from its Eastern Half, Slavonic and East European Review 96:3 (2018), 594-6.
• Review of Branko Banovic, The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition: Questions and Controversies over NATO Membership, Nations and Nationalism 24:1 (2018), 196-8.
• Review of Blendi Fevziu, Enver Hoxha: the Iron Fist of Albania, English Historical Review 133:561 (2018), 483-5.
• Review of John Hughson and Fiona Skillen (ed.), Football in Southeastern Europe: from Ethnic Homogenization to Reconciliation, Southeastern Europe 42:1 (2018), 134-5.

2017

• Review of Anikó Imre, TV Socialism, Feminist Media Studies 17:3 (2017), 524-6.
• Review of Holly Furneaux, Military Men of Feeling: Emotion, Touch and Masculinity in the Crimean War, Critical Military Studies 3:2 (2017), 212-15.
• Review of Gina Heathcote and Dianne Otto (ed.), Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security, International Feminist Journal of Politics 19:1 (2017), 119-21.
• Review of John Paul Newman, Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State-Building, 1903-1945, English Historical Review 132:155 (2017), 449-51.
• Review of William Jay Risch (ed.), Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc: Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe, Popular Music 36:1 (2017), 125-7.
• Review of Rory Yeomans (ed.), Utopia of Terror: Life and Death in Wartime Croatia, English Historical Review 132:557 (2017), 1027-8.
• Review of Margaret Beissinger, Speranţa Rădulescu and Anca Giurchescu (ed.), Manele in Romania: Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music, Slavic Review 76:4 (2017), 1100-2.
• Review of Christoph Declercq and Julian Walker (ed.), Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory, British Journal for Military History 3:3 (2017), 148-9.
• Review of Gayle Munro, Transnationalism, Diaspora and Migrants from the Former Yugoslavia in Britain, LSE Review of Books, 7 March 2017.

2016

• Review of Azra Hromadžić, Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, Social Anthropology 24:2 (2016), 260-1.
  
• Review of Stephen Amico, Roll Over, Tchaikovsky: Russian Popular Music and Post-Soviet Homosexuality, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 2:1 (2016), 244-7.
  
• Review of James Lyon, Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914: the Outbreak of the Great War, British Journal for Military History 2:3 (2016), 123-5.

2015

• Review of Michaela Schäuble, Narrating Victimhood: Gender, Religion, and the Making of Place in Post-War Croatia (Oxford: Berghahn, 2014), Slavic Review 74:4 (2015), 916-7.
• Review of Marko Attila Hoare, The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War: a History (London: Saqi, 2013), English Historical Review 130:544 (2015), 784-6.
• Review of Christopher Kelen, Anthem Quality: National Songs – a Theoretical Survey (Bristol: Intellect, 2014), Space and Polity 19:5 (2015), 305-6.
• Review of Mark Mazower, Governing the World: the History of an Idea (London: Penguin, 2012), British Journal for Military History 1:2 (2015), 121-2.
• Review of Helen Walasek (with Richard Carlton, Amra Hadžimuhamedović, Valery Perry and Tina Wik), Bosnia and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage (Farnham, Ashgate, 2015), LSE Review of Books, 27 October 2015.

2014

• Review of Jim Samson, Music in the Balkans (Amsterdam: Brill, 2013), European History Quarterly 44:3 (2014), 573-4.
• Review of Elissa Helms, Innocence and Victimhood: Gender, Nation and Women’s Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 14:3 (2014), 463-4.
• Review of Dalibor Mišina, Shake, Rattle and Roll: Yugoslav Rock Music and the Poetics of Social Critique (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), Journal of World Popular Music 1:2 (2014), 308-11.
• Review of Ljiljana Saric, Karen Gammelgaard and Kjetil Ra Hauge (ed.), Transforming National Holidays: Identity Discourse in the West and South Slavic Countries, 1985-2010 (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013), Discourse and Society 25:5 (2014), 573-5.

2013

• Review of Patrick Hyder Patterson, Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011), English Historical Review 128:535 (2013), 1636-8.
• Review of Philip V Bohlman and Nada Petković (ed.), Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012), Slavic Review 72:1 (2013), 156-8.
• Review of Tomislav Z Longinović, Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), Europe–Asia Studies 65:4 (2013), 773-4.
• Review of Emily Greble, Sarajevo 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler’s Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011), Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 13:3 (2013), 534-6.
• Review of Jenny Edkins, Missing: Persons and Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011), Oral History Forum d’histoire orale 33, Special Issue on ‘Confronting Mass Atrocities’. Link to original.
• Review of Tim Wall, Studying Popular Music Culture (London: Sage, 2013), LSE Review of Books, 22 August 2013. Link to original.
• Review of Philip A D’Agati, Nationalism on the World Stage: Cultural Performance at the Olympic Games (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011), Nations and Nationalism 19:2 (2013), 401-3.
• Review of Sandra Hale, Uldis Ozolins and Ludmila Stern (ed.), The Critical Link 5: Quality in Interpreting: a Shared Responsibility (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins), Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 32:1 (2013), 138-41.

2012

• Review of Annica Kronsell, Gender, Sex, and the Postnational Defense: Militarism and Peacekeeping (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), International Feminist Journal of Politics 14:4 (2012), 569-72.
• Review of Marcus Tanner, Croatia: a Nation Forged in War (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010, 3rd ed.), Central Europe 10:1 (2012): 82-84.
• Review of Thorsten Benner, Stephan Mergenthaler and Philipp Rotmann, The New World of UN Peace Operations: Learning to Build Peace? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). LSE Review of Books, 19 November 2012.
• Review of Tom Trier, Hedvig Lohm and David Szakonyi, Under Siege: Inter-Ethnic Relations in Abkhazia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), H-Genocide (mailing list), August. Available at https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=36013.
• Review of Marina Terkourafi (ed.), Languages of Global Hip Hop (London: Continuum, 2010), IASPM@Journal 3:1 (2012). Available at http://www.iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/view/608/pdf.

2011

• Review of Tim Judah, The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009, 3rd ed.), Central Europe 9:1 (2011), 77–79.

2009

• Review of Peter Webb, Exploring the Networked Worlds of Popular Music: Milieu Cultures (New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2007), Popular Music 28:1 (2009), 120-22.
• Review of Val Colic-Peisker, Migration, Class, and Transnational Identities: Croatians in Australia and America (Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008), H-SAE (Society for the Anthropology of Europe mailing list), 2 September 2009. Available at http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-sae&month=0909&week=a&msg=oAqZ5XH17Umyn1br03nKOg&user=&pw=

2008

• Review of Caroline Bithell, Transported by Song: Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007), Popular Music 27:3 (2008), 492–94.
• Review of Gillian Mitchell, The North American Folk Music Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945–1980 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), Popular Music 27:2 (2008), 320–21.
• Review of David Cooper and Kevin Dawe (ed.), The Mediterranean in Music: Critical Perspectives, Common Concerns, Cultural Differences (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005), Popular Music 27:1 (2008), 163–65.
• (with Jelena Obradović-Wochnik) Review of Sabrina P Ramet and Davorka Matić (ed.), Democratic Transition in Croatia: Value Transformation, Education, and Media (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007), Europe–Asia Studies 60:7 (2008).

2007

• Review of Ivo Žanić, Flag on the Mountain: A Political Anthropology of the War in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1990–1995 (London: Saqi, 2007), Balkan Academic News, June 2007. Available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/balkans/message/6994.
• Review of Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries, The Balkans: A Post-Communist History (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), Balkan Academic News, March 2007.
• Review of Kristen Ghodsee, The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism and Postsocialism on the Black Sea (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005), Slovo 19:1 (2007).