LeftEast: An Open Letter to the International Community regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina

[Elena Gapova]

Thank you, Rossen, for bringing this to our attention. Events in Bosnia are
very important and not covered adequately in the media.

Elena Gapova



On 15 February 2014 13:47, Rossen Djagalov <djagalov at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Friends and colleagues,
>
> Please, forgive the somewhat grandiose subject line, but that's the actual
> title of the letter published on the pages LeftEast,
> signed by 130 academics and calling on the international community to
> support the protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina:
>
> http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/an-open-letter-international-community-in-bosnia
> .
>
> In addition to sharing this letter with you, let me take also this
> opportunity to introduce LeftEast, a year-old, online, English-language
> platform devoted to the postsocialist world, broadly understood, and
> particularly to new social movements emerging there:
> http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast. Because our networks extend to
> academic and activist circles  in most Eastern European countries, we are
> usually able to produce coverage and analysis of processes that goes deeper
> and offers greater nuance than the standard fare available in most Western
> media. While Eastern Europe remains the core of our geographical interest,
> we are also increasingly interested in other peripheral capitalist
> societies, which not only offer productive comparisons but also allow us to
> break out of the Cold War's intellectual division of labor. Of the
> platform's orientation, you can judge by its name. We publish texts of
> different length and format: most commonly, articles, but also open
> letters, manifestos, etc.. While most are written for us in English, we
> also translate important texts from Russian, B/C/S, and other languages so
> that they become available to a wider, international audience. All go
> through an editorial process that's meant to be quick and maximally helpful
> to the author. We would be delighted should any of you decide to contribute
> an original text or a translation.
>
> With the best of wishes,
> Rossen
>
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