The latest episode of the ValEUs Podcast: Beyond Borders is online!
In this episode, David Orlov of Nazarbayev University speaks with Claske Vos, anthropologist and Assistant Professor at the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, about contestations surrounding EU foreign policy intervention in the Western Balkans.
Vos examines the perspectives of the independent cultural and arts scene in former Yugoslav states, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro, and how these actors respond to and challenge EU initiatives and narratives.
The discussion explores the EU’s growing emphasis on culture as a tool for democratization and peaceful inter-community relations, questioning whether cultural and artistic spaces can truly facilitate alternative political engagement, critical debate, and free expression, or if their transformative potential remains limited by structural and political constraints.
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