Insecurity, Illegality, Illegitimacy: Ethnographic Notes on Demolition and Construction in Albania
Author(s)
Pajo, Erind
Abstract
These ethnographic notes tackle the condition of insecurity in Albania by exploring the ongoing construction of apartment buildings and the demolition of illegal constructions. An exhibition of fear in a side street leads to an account of a prominent construction/demolition dispute, which in turn leads to the view that the roots of insecurity in Albania may lie with the oppositions between legitimate social drives and the rendering of them illegal. All flavored by the media echoes of the terrorist acts in the United States.
