Fellowship Projects 2010
Without rehabilitation programmes and support network, Macedonia’s ex-prisoners face quick return to jail
Macedonia’s prisons are amongst the worst anywhere, as recent European and State Department reports have attested.
A nation hooked on tranquillizers and anti depressants?
Why is there substantial per cent of adult Bulgarians reliant on pills to get by? When did this start? Is it abuse of the system by doctors – prescribing drugs far too easily as a cure-all?
Albanians wink at mixed marriages - when tolerance pays
Kosovo Albanians are socially conservative and rarely marry outside the community.
Culture of impunity shields pedophile clergy in Serbia and Croatia
Serbian and Croatian police do not have the political backing to confront child sex abuse crimes of the clergy. Clergy enjoy ‘de facto’ protection of state institutions, and judges and police are instructed not to proceed with such cases.
Can women that have escaped domestic violence ever regain a normal life?
The roots of violence are socially accepted in religion, tradition and culture of the Balkan countries.
Albania’s conservative society resists advance of new values
The continuing appeal of the canon (like the one of Leke Dukadjini), as well as conventional heritage prohibits premarital sex to a tribal society, especially in the rural north.
Childless mothers pay high price for getting round their ‘curse’
Barrenness is a social stigma in the Balkans - but those who attempt to get round this by obtaining surrogate mothers run up against once obstacle after another.
Tradition keeps Kosovo’s war widows in black
The war in Kosovo in the late 1990s left a large number of women, some very young, as widows.
Fellows
Topic
Topic 2010: Taboo
Taboos change – rapidly. Homosexuality was once a taboo in Western Europe, as was “living in sin”, [i.e. outside marriage], abortion, childlessness, physical disabilities, atheism and suicide
Articles
Diary
07 Oct 2010 / 12:33
It was good to talk
06 Oct 2010 / 10:20
Strange Times in Skopje
01 Sep 2010 / 11:20
Completing the B Ring
23 Aug 2010 / 13:35
Ten Intros later...
16 Aug 2010 / 16:23
My last stop
13 Aug 2010 / 10:09
The hardest thing in my research
02 Aug 2010 / 10:20
Two months of silence, so much info
29 Jul 2010 / 12:20
New Depth and Vision Gained in Vienna
27 Jul 2010 / 14:54
Now is the time to write
16 Jul 2010 / 11:13
Heat Follows Me Everywhere, Even to London
