Balkan as metaphor : between globalization and fragmentation Invention and in(ter)vention: the rhetoric of Balkanization Vesna Goldsworthy Vampires like us: gothic imaginary and the serbs [sic] Tomislav Z. Longinović Whats so Byzantine about the Balkans Milica Bakić Hayden The Balkans as an element in ideological mechanisms Rastko Močnik Carl Schmitt on Kosovo or taking war seriously Grigoris Ananiadis The dark intimacy: maps identities acts of identifications Alexander Kiossev South Slav identity and the ultimate war reality Ugo Vlaisavljević The impossible escape: Romanians and the Balkans Adrian Cioroianu The eros of identity Ivaylo Ditchev Queer Serbs Branka Arsić Sexualizing the Serb Dušan I. Bjelić and Lucinda Cole Muslim women Croatian women Serbian women Albanian women ... Vesna Kesić Hypnosis and critique (film music for the Balkans) Stathis Gourgouris Simonides on the Balkans Petar Ramadanović; Since 1989