We took Georg Simmel’s notion of “stranger,” who “comes today and stays tomorrow,” the potential wanderer, who, “although he has gone no further, has not quite got over the freedom of coming and going,” – to better identify those natives of other countries who came to Kosovo especially after 1999, and lived in Kosovo for an extended period of time, and/or currently live in Kosovo. They are officials of international institutions, staff of non-governmental organizations, business people, journalists, teachers, etc. They are commonly known as „the internationals.“ They are not simply foreigners, they are part of Kosovo itself: they participate in local life in different fields and varying positions of power, and they are also co-creators, with Kosovars, of a transnational space which is cultural, social and political. In the words of Simmel, they are not unlike “inner enemies,” whose membership within the Kosovo society involves both being outside and confronting it. By collecting their life histories, we aim to shed light on the complicated status of outsiders/insiders and on what constructs this divide.
Zanimljivo je, da budem iskren, kada su i nastavnici i učenici bili maltretirani, a [policija] je zapravo otišla, mislili smo da sutradan nećemo imati nijednoh učenika. Zanimljivo je da nije bilo odsutnih. Nastavnici, učenici, sada naravno za mene ali i za druge, bilo je dovoljno samo da budu tu. Da ih imamo tu u blizini. Što se tiče časova onda kada smo se smirili tada smo nastavili da radimo.
[…] Dakle, svi su đaci bili u školi. Došlo je vreme, zvonilo je zvono, iznenađujuće, kad je zvono zazvonilo za tri minuta cela škola je bila opkoljena. Srećom, trudili smo se da budemo hladni, gledali smo sa prozora šta rade i šta nas čeka. I prvo su nas tamo odveli na treći sprat, ili na drugi ne znam ali bitno da su formirali dva kordona policajaca na tom spratu. Srećom, učenike nisu maltretirali. A mi učenici koliko nas je bilo 30 ili 40, ali najgore je prošao profesor Muharem Peci, koji je zadobio veoma teške povrede.
INICIATIVA USMENE ISTORIJE IDE U NARODNU GALERIJU UMETNOSTI U TIRANI
16 окт 2019