National Identity In Serbia

Author : Vassilis Petsinis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788317085

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National Identity in Serbia by Vassilis Petsinis Pdf

The autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia is little-known in the English-speaking world, even though it is a territory of high significance for the development of Serbian national identity. Vojvodina's multi-ethnic composition and historical experience has also encouraged the formation of a distinct regional identity. This book analyses the evolution of Vojvodina's identity over time and the unique pattern of ethnic relations in the province. Although approximately 25 ethnic communities live in Vojvodina, it is by no means a divided society. Intercultural cohabitation has been a living reality in the province for centuries and this largely accounts for the lack of ethnic conflict. Vassilis Petsinis explores Vojvodina's intercultural society and shows how this has facilitated the introduction of flexible and regionalized legal models for the management of ethnic relations in Serbia since the 2000s. He also discusses recent developments in the region, most notably the arrival of refugees from Syria and Iraq, and measures the impact that these changes have had on social stability and inter-group relations in the province.

Author : Colovic
Publisher : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : National characteristics, Serbian
ISBN : UOM:39015051831199

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The Politics of Symbol in Serbia by Colovic Pdf

The author analyzes Serbian political mythology about the nation, in particular the role of narratives in political discourse and notions of time, nature, borders, heroism and national identity.

Author : Maria Todorova
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0814782795

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Balkan Identities by Maria Todorova Pdf

Balkan Identities brings together historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars all working under the shared conviction that the only way to overcome history is to intimately understand it. The contributors of Balkan Identities focus on historical memory, collective national memory, and the political manipulation of national identities. They refine our understanding of memory and identity in general and explore and assess the significance of particular manifestations of Balkan national identities and national memories in the region. The essays in Balkan Identities grapple with three major problems: the construction of historical memory, sites of national memory, and the mobilization of national identities. While most essays focus on a single country (e.g. Croatia, Romania, Turkey, Cyprus, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia), they are in dialogue with each other and share an opposition to rigid isolationist identities. Illuminating and challenging, Balkan Identities demonstrates the ever-changing nature of a troubled and culturally vibrant region.

Author : Ola Listhaug,Sabrina P. Ramet,Dragana Duli?
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789639776982

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Civic and Uncivic Values by Ola Listhaug,Sabrina P. Ramet,Dragana Duli? Pdf

Discusses Serbia's struggle for democratic values after the fall of the Milošević regime provoked by the NATO war, and after the trauma caused by the secession of Kosovo. Are the value systems of the post-Milošević era true stumbling blocks of a delayed transition of this country? Seventeen contributors from Norway, Serbia, Italy, Germany, Poland and some other European countries covered a broad range of topics in order to provide answers to this question. The subjects of their investigations were national myths and symbols, history textbooks, media, film, religion, inter-ethnic dialogue, transitional justice, political party agendas and other related themes. The authors of the essays represent different scholarly disciplines whose theoretical conceptions and frameworks are employed in order to analyze two alternative value systems in Serbia: liberal, cosmopolitan and civic on the one hand, and traditional, provincial, nationalist on the other.

Author : Birgit Bock-Luna
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : National characteristics, Serbian
ISBN : 3825897524

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The Past in Exile by Birgit Bock-Luna Pdf

In this study of identity politics, memory and long-distance nationalism among Serbian migrants in California, the author examines the complicated ways in which visions of the past are used to form Diaspora subjects and make claims to the homeland in the present. Drawing on extended fieldwork in the San Francisco Bay Area community, she shows how the Yugoslav wars generated a revaluation Serbian history and personal life stories, resulting in the strengthening of ethnic identity. Nevertheless, strategies for dealing with rupture and change also included contestation of exile nationalism.

Author : Zala Volčič
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1612890067

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Serbian Spaces of Identity by Zala Volčič Pdf

Yugoslavia may be gone, but it lives on in the memory of its last generation, along with the potent mix of nationalisms, globalization, and historical tensions that helped dissove it. If the dissolution of Yugoslavia has taught us anything, it is that nationalism and globalization are not mutually exclusive. Drawing on the recollections of key figures among the last Serbian generation to grow up Yugoslav, this book explores the transition from socialsim to captitalism, from the dream of pan-Slavic working class identity to the contentious captitalist reality that gave us the work Balkanization.

Author : Branimir Anzulovic
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814706718

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Heavenly Serbia by Branimir Anzulovic Pdf

Traces Serbia's nationalist and expansionist impulses to the legendary battle of Kosovo in 1389 As violence and turmoil continue to define the former Yugoslavia, basic questions remain unanswered: What are the forces behind the Serbian expansionist drive that has brought death and destruction to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo? How did the Serbs rationalize, and rally support for, this genocidal activity? Heavenly Serbia traces Serbia's nationalist and expansionist impulses to the legendary battle of Kosovo in 1389. Anzulovic shows how the myth of "Heavenly Serbia" developed to help the Serbs endure foreign domination, explaining their military defeat and the loss of their medieval state by emphasizing their own moral superiority over military victory. Heavenly Serbia shows how this myth resulted in an aggressive nationalist ideology which has triumphed in the late twentieth century and marginalized those Serbs who strive for the establishment of a civil society. Author interview with CNN: http://www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/branimir_chat.html

Author : John R. Lampe,Mark Mazower
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786155053856

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Ideologies and National Identities by John R. Lampe,Mark Mazower Pdf

Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This book is the result of a year-long project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century. A cohort of young scholars with backgrounds in history, anthropology, political science, and comparative literature were brought together for this undertaking. The studies invite attention to fascism, socialism, and liberalism as well as nationalism and Communism. While most chapters deal with war and confrontation, they focus rather on the remembrance of such conflicts in shaping today's ideology and national identity.

Author : Vesna Pešić,United States Institute of Peace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754066032263

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Serbian Nationalism and the Origins of the Yugoslav Crisis by Vesna Pešić,United States Institute of Peace Pdf

Author : Ian Colovic,Ivan Čolović
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : National characteristics, Serbian
ISBN : 1850654654

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The Politics of Symbol in Serbia by Ian Colovic,Ivan Čolović Pdf

The author analyzes Serbian political mythology about the nation, in particular the role of narratives in political discourse and notions of time, nature, borders, heroism and national identity.

Author : George W. White
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0847698092

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Nationalism and Territory by George W. White Pdf

Why do nations come into conflict? What factors lead to the horrors of ethnic cleansing? This timely book offers clear-eyed answers to these questions by exploring how national identity is shaped by place, focusing especially on Serbia, Hungary, and Romania. Moving beyond studies of nationalism that consider only the economic and geostrategic value of territory, George W. White shows that the very core of national identity is intimately bound to specific places. Indeed, nations define themselves in terms of spaces that have historical, linguistic, and religious meaning, as Serbs have clearly demonstrated in Kosovo. These territories are concrete expressions of a nationAIs identity, both past and present. With his detailed analysis of the places that define national identity in Southeastern Europe, White convincingly shows why territorial disputes so often escalate into war.

Author : Alex J. Bellamy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 071906502X

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The Formation of Croatian National Identity by Alex J. Bellamy Pdf

This book assesses the formation of Croatian national identity in the 1990s. It develops a novel framework, calling into question both primordial and modernist approaches to nationalism and national identity, before applying that framework to Croatia. In doing so, the book provides a new way of thinking about how national identity is formed and why it is so important. An explanation is given of how Croatian national identity was formed in the abstract, via a historical narrative that traces centuries of yearning for a national state. The book shows how the government, opposition parties, dissident intellectuals and diaspora groups offered alternative accounts of this narrative in order to legitimise contemporary political programmes based on different versions of national identity. It then looks at how these debates were manifested in social activities as diverse as football, religion, economics and language. This book attempts to make an important contribution to both the way we study nationalism and national identity, and our understanding of post-Yugoslav politics and society.

Author : Robert B. Pynsent
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349246854

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The Literature of Nationalism by Robert B. Pynsent Pdf

The Literature of Nationalism concerns literature in its broadest sense and the manner in which, in belles lettres, the oral tradition and journalism, language and literature create national/nationalist myths. It treats East European culture from Finland to 'Yugoslavia', from Bohemia to Romania, from the nineteenth century to today. One third of the book concerns women and ethnic identity, and the rest covers subjects as varied as Bulgarian Fascism and the impact of political change on language in Hungary and ex-Yugoslavia.

Author : Gerlachlus Duijzings
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850653925

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Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo by Gerlachlus Duijzings Pdf

Kosovo is a frontier society where two Balkan nations, Albanian and Serb, as well as two religions, Islam and Christianity, clash. The tension between conflict and symbiosis lies at the core of this book.

Author : Veljko Vujačić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107074088

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Nationalism, Myth, and the State in Russia and Serbia by Veljko Vujačić Pdf

This book examines the role of Russian and Serbian nationalism in dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in 1991.