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The CMC concern itself with communication and transfers as an outgrowth of its comparative perspective and long-term analyses. The project aims to pursuit research on the transfers of narratives within the global public, and localize and categorize these transfers into origins, transmissions, and re-interpretations. On the one hand, we reconstruct the narratives’ origin in local discourses, from which they may emerge into transregional, multi-layered communication processes that influences the global public. On the other hand, narratives are seen as outcomes of global interactions and networks that create or structure local discourses. The historical and social context addresses macro-level research. Additionally, we pay special attention to its implementations at the individual level (biographies, experiences, memories). Hence, we consider an eclectic approach towards the need for and circulation of narratives, in order to develop systematic communication strategies that give momentum for policy reflection or social empowerment.
One project deals with the transfer of Southeast European narratives about ‘Kossovo’ into the U.S. public by Serbian migrant communities during World War One. One has to acknowledge that Kosovo has never only been a geographic region, but also has different communication spaces with a variety of meanings. For the groups of Serbian immigrants in the U.S., the concept of Kosovo entailed not only memories of their country of origin, but also narratives that structured their livelihoods, their beliefs, and their actions across the ocean, at the same time. It informed the migrants not only of the(ir) Serbian medieval past, but also of their duties: To fight for and take back a territory called ‘Kossovo’, wherever they may be. The results of this project show how organized migrant groups translated their history and historiography into suitable narratives that shaped the US public image about Serbia to gain support from the US government for the purpose of founding a Yugoslavian state in 1918.
The project operates at the crossroads of transdisciplinary approaches, namely micro-history and transnational history, as well as media, communication, and memory studies.
CMC Staff
Eva Tamara Asboth (PI, Contact)
Funding
DDr. Franz-Josef Mayer-Gunthof Wissenschafts- und Forschungsstiftung
OeAD
Publications and Lectures
Publications and Lectures pre-2022
Publications:
Asboth, E. & Nadjivan, S. (2017). Neither here nor there – Ni ovde, ni tamo. Religiously Connoted Social Media Self-Representations of the ‘Generation In-Between’, in: Contemporary Austrian Studies Vol. 26, New Orleans-Innsbruck.
Asboth, E., Griesbeck M. & Nadjivan, S. (2017). „MY MILK LASTS LONGER THAN MY VISA“. The Longings of the „Generation on the Move“ in Kosovo, in: zeitgeschichte, 44. Jg., 1/2017.
Asboth, E. (2019). The West as the Balkan’s cartographer. An analysis of historical images of the West about Serbia and the Serbs during the nineteenth and twentieth century, in: Moreno Seco, Mónica (coord.); Fernández Sirvent, Rafael y Gutiérrez Lloret, Rosa Ana (eds.). Del siglo XIX al XXI. Tendencias y debates: XIV Congreso de la Asociación de Historia Contemporánea, Universidad de Alicante 20-22 de septiembre de 2018. Alicante: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
Asboth, E. (2016). Der politische Mythos in massenmedialen Gesellschaften: Konzept für die Erforschung von (transferierten) westlichen Narrativen über den Balkan, in: Diotima Bertel et al. (eds.), Junge Perspektiven auf Partizipation in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Wien.
Lectures:
Imaginations of the ‘Oriental Europe’ in Austria’s and Germany’s public sphere in the 19th century, Conference: Haunted Landscapes of German Eastern Europe, University of Edinburgh,
4.-6. August 2021.
Preparing the ‘Oriental Europe’ for Habsburg’s Expansion. Felix Kanitz and the Viennese scientific circle as spatial knowledge producer on the Balkans in the 19th century, Conference: Knowledge Systems and Ottoman-European Encounters: Spatial and Social Dynamics, Zurich University,
9.-11. Juni 2021.
Popular Publications
Research Papers
Articles and Book Chapters
- "Children of the Balkan Wars”—Responses and resistance regarding war-related media content in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia. / Asboth, E; Griesbeck, M; Shah, M (Herausgeber:in).
Children and youth as "Sites of Resistance’“ in armed conflict. Sociological Studies of Children and Youth (SSCY). Cambridge: Emerald Publishing, 2024. S. 25-38. - Das Wien-Image auf dem Land im 20. Jahrhundert: Ein digital-quantitativer Zugriff auf lebensgeschichtliche Interviews [The image of Vienna in the countryside in the 20th century. A digital-quantitative approach to biographical interviews]. / Asboth, E.
in: Medien und Zeit - Kommunikation in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Jahrgang 39, Nr. 1, 08.07.2024, S. 35-49. - Junge Lebensgeschichten aus Post-Jugoslawien: Reflexion über die Rolle der Forschenden im lebensgeschichtlichen Interview [Young Life Stories from Post-Yugoslavia: Reflection on the Role of the Researchers in Life Story Interviews]. / Asboth, E; Griesbeck, M.
in: SWS - Rundschau, Jahrgang 64, Nr. 1, 02.07.2024, S. 77-94. - 'Kossovo Day’, New York, 1918: How the Serbian National League of Defense tied the future of their country of origin to American history. / Asboth, E; Powell, Tina (Herausgeber:in); Suppes, Sagasti (Herausgeber:in).
Transnational American Space. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2022. S. 193-211.
Books and Monographs
- Transnational and Transatlantic Perspectives on the Balkans, 1850-1918. Historical Balkan Narratives supported by Felix Philipp Kanitz, Mary Edith Durham, and Mihailo Pupin in the transnational public sphere. / Asboth, E.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series (PMSTH)).