Serbian Dreambook

Author : Marko Živković
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253223067

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Serbian Dreambook by Marko Živković Pdf

The central role that the regime of Slobodan Milošević played in the bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia is well known, but Marko Živković explores another side of this time period: the stories people in Serbia were telling themselves (and others) about themselves. Živković traces the recurring themes, scripts, and narratives that permeated public discourse in Milošević's Serbia, as Serbs described themselves as Gypsies or Jews, violent highlanders or peaceful lowlanders, and invoked their own mythologized defeat at the Battle of Kosovo. The author investigates national narratives, the use of tradition for political purposes, and local idioms, paying special attention to the often bizarre and outlandish tropes people employed to make sense of their social reality. He suggests that the enchantments of political life under Milošević may be fruitfully seen as a dreambook of Serbian national imaginary.

Author : Ana Omaljev
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838267111

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Discourses on Identity in 'First' and 'Other' Serbia by Ana Omaljev Pdf

Serbia is still widely thought of as an unfinished state, whose people struggle to establish a compelling identity narrative in answer to the question 'who are we?'. While existing literature has over-analyzed Serbian nationalism, the Serbian public sphere remains largely ignored. This engaging and timely book fills this gap by giving context to the persistent and overwhelming dialogue between opposing factions on the identity spectrum in Serbia. Omaljev's focus on elite discourses provides a fresh perspective on this contentious subject. It offers an original understanding of the competing arguments surrounding 'First' and 'Other' Serbia and of the contested visions of Serbian national identity and broader European identity.By closely examining the identity vocabulary of Serbian elites and the opposing ways in which these elites view the use of labels such as 'anti-Serbian', 'patriot', and 'traitor', this book provides a vital lesson in post-conflict nation-building and raises important questions about the symbolic representations of political and cultural identities. A much-needed and compelling intervention in the Serbian identity discourse, Omaljev's work is a must-read for any researcher on the Western Balkans.

Author : Dejan Djokić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009308656

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A Concise History of Serbia by Dejan Djokić Pdf

This accessible and engaging book covers the full span of Serbia's history, from the sixth-century Slav migrations up to the present day. It traces key developments surrounding the medieval and modern polities associated with Serbs, revealing a fascinating history of entanglements and communication between southeastern and wider Europe, sometimes with global implications. This is a history of Serb states, institutions, and societies, which also gives voice to individual experiences in an attempt to understand how the events described impacted the people who lived through them. Although no real continuity between the pre-modern and modern periods exists, Dejan Djokić draws out several common themes, including: migrations; the Serbs' relations with neighbouring empires and peoples; Serbia as a society formed in the imperial borderlands; and the polycentricity of Serbia. The volume also highlights the surprising vitality of Serb identity, and how it has survived in different incarnations over the centuries through reinvention.

Author : Ivana Spasić,Jelena Pešić,Marija Babović
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031124853

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Sociology in Serbia by Ivana Spasić,Jelena Pešić,Marija Babović Pdf

This book represents the first comprehensive century-long history of the disciplinary development of sociology in Serbia in English. It provides an overview of the constitution of sociology as an academic discipline during the interwar period, its reinstitutionalization after World War II in entirely new social circumstances marked by establishment of self-management socialism in Yugoslavia, and finally its development during the turbulent postsocialist period. Divided into five chapters, the focus of the book is on the challenges that sociology has faced in order to maintain its institutional position, gain adequate social recognition, and preserve its professional autonomy. Relying on Bourdieu's concept of the academic field and Burawoy's typology of Professional, Critical, Public and Policy sociology, the book seeks to answer the question of how the sociological academic field in Serbia has been constituted, structured and restructured, and in which of these roles sociology has dominantly appeared in different phases of its evolution.

Author : G. Ognjenovic,J. Jozelic,Gorana Ognjenovi?,Jasna Jozeli?
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137477897

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Politicization of Religion, the Power of Symbolism by G. Ognjenovic,J. Jozelic,Gorana Ognjenovi?,Jasna Jozeli? Pdf

This book examines the role religion played in the dismantling of Yugoslavia; addressing practical concerns of inter-ethnic fighting, religiously-motivated warfare, and the role religion played within the dissolution of the nation.

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet,Christine M. Hassenstab,Ola Listhaug
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107180741

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Building Democracy in the Yugoslav Successor States by Sabrina P. Ramet,Christine M. Hassenstab,Ola Listhaug Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of how the Yugoslav successor states have coped with the challenges of building democracy since 1990.

Author : Marko Živković,Jamin Pelkey,James W. Fernandez
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800732735

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Tropological Thought and Action by Marko Živković,Jamin Pelkey,James W. Fernandez Pdf

From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.

Author : Rusko Matuli?
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Yugoslavia
ISBN : 9781493190782

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Bibliography of Sources on the Region of Former Yugoslavia Volume III by Rusko Matuli? Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781801351836

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The Migration Conference 2022 Selected Papers by Anonim Pdf

The 10th Migration Conference, TMC 2022 was hosted by the Faculty of Law, Economic and Social Sciences Agdal of Mohammad V University, Rabat, Morocco and organised by AMERM (l’Association Marocaine d’Etudes et de Recherches sur les Migrations) and IBS (International Business School, UK. The TMC 2022 Rabat was the first time such a major conference on migration held in Africa. The Conference accommodated discussions involving ministers, politicians, practitioners, lawyers, academics, media, experts, young researchers and students, practitioners and wider public. This conference was the first in person event in the series after two years of COVID-induced virtual conferences.

Author : Vedran Duančić
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030502591

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Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia by Vedran Duančić Pdf

This book is the first historical work to examine the notion of national territories in Yugoslavia – a concept fundamental for the understanding of Yugoslav history. Exploring the intertwined histories of geography as an emerging discipline in the South Slavic lands and geographical works describing interwar Yugoslavia, the book focuses on the engagement of geographers in the on-going political conflict over the national question. Duančić shows that geographers were uniquely equipped to address the creation of the new country and the numerous problems it faced, as they provided accounts of Yugoslavia’s past, present, and even future, all of which were understood as inherently embedded in geography. By analyzing a large body of geographical narratives on the Yugoslav state, the book follows both the attempts to “naturalize” and present Yugoslavia as a sustainable political and cultural unit, as well as the attempts to challenge its existence by pointing to unresolvable, geographically conditioned tensions within it. The book approaches geographical discourse in Yugoslavia as part of a wider European scientific network, pointing to similarities and specifically Yugoslav characteristics.

Author : Michael Skey,Marco Antonsich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137570987

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Everyday Nationhood by Michael Skey,Marco Antonsich Pdf

This edited collection explores the continuing appeal of nationalism around the world. The authors’ ground-breaking research demonstrates the ways in which national priorities and sensibilities frame an extraordinary array of activities, from classroom discussions and social media posts to global policy-making, as well as identifying the value that can come from feeling part of a national community, especially during times of economic uncertainty and social change. They also note how attachments to nation can often generate powerful emotions, happiness and pride as well as anger and frustration, which can be used to mobilize substantial numbers of people into action. Featuring contributions from leading social scientists across a range of disciplines, including sociology, geography, political science, social psychology, media and cultural studies, the book presents a number of case studies covering a range of countries including Russia, Germany, New Zealand, Serbia, Japan, Azerbaijan, Greece and the USA. Everyday Nationhood will appeal to students and scholars of nationalism, globalization and identity across the social sciences as well as those with an interest in understanding the role of nationalism in shaping some of the most pressing political crises- migration, economic protectionism, populism - of the contemporary era.

Author : Edin Hajdarpasic
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501701108

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Whose Bosnia? by Edin Hajdarpasic Pdf

As Edin Hajdarpasic shows, formative contestations over Bosnia and the surrounding region began well the assassination that triggered World War I, emerging with the rise of new nineteenth-century forces—Serbian and Croatian nationalisms, and Ottoman, Habsburg, Muslim, and Yugoslav political movements—that claimed this province as their own. Whose Bosnia? reveals the political pressures and moral arguments that made Bosnia a prime target of escalating nationalist activity. Hajdarpasic provides new insight into central themes of modern politics, illuminating core subjects like "the people," state-building, and national suffering. Whose Bosnia? proposes a new figure in the history of nationalism: the (br)other, a character signifying the potential of being "brother" and "Other," containing the fantasy of complete assimilation and insurmountable difference. By bringing this figure into focus, Whose Bosnia? shows nationalism to be a dynamic and open-ended force, one that eludes a clear sense of historical closure.

Author : Uroš ?voro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317006077

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Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia by Uroš ?voro Pdf

Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Theoretically ambitious and innovative, this book is a new account of popular music that has been at the centre of national, political and cultural debates for over two decades. Beginning with 1970s Socialist Yugoslavia, Uroš Čvoro explores the cultural and political paradoxes of turbo-folk: described as ’backward’ music, whose misogynist and Serb nationalist iconography represents a threat to cosmopolitanism, turbo-folk’s iconography is also perceived as a ’genuinely Balkan’ form of resistance to the threat of neo-liberalism. Taking as its starting point turbo-folk’s popularity across national borders, Čvoro analyses key songs and performers in Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia. The book also examines the effects of turbo on the broader cultural sphere - including art, film, sculpture and architecture - twenty years after its inception and popularization. What is proposed is a new way of reading the relationship of contemporary popular music to processes of cultural, political and social change - and a new understanding of how fundamental turbo-folk is to the recent history of former Yugoslavia and its successor states.

Author : Cavan Concannon,Lindsey A. Mazurek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317185796

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Across the Corrupting Sea by Cavan Concannon,Lindsey A. Mazurek Pdf

Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean reframes current discussions of the Mediterranean world by rereading the past with new methodological approaches. The work asks readers to consider how future studies might write histories of the Mediterranean, moving from the larger pan-Mediterranean approaches of The Corrupting Sea towards locally-oriented case studies. Spanning from the Archaic period to the early Middle Ages, contributors engage the pioneering studies of the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel through the use of critical theory, GIS network analysis, and postcolonial cultural inquiries. Scholars from several time periods and disciplines rethink the Mediterranean as a geographic and cultural space shaped by human connectivity and follow the flow of ideas, ships, trade goods and pilgrims along the roads and seascapes that connected the Mediterranean across time and space. The volume thus interrogates key concepts like cabotage, seascapes, deep time, social networks, and connectivity in the light of contemporary archaeological and theoretical advances in order to create new ways of writing more diverse histories of the ancient world that bring together local contexts, literary materials, and archaeological analysis.

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet,Christine M. Hassenstab
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108499910

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Central and Southeast European Politics Since 1989 by Sabrina P. Ramet,Christine M. Hassenstab Pdf

The collapse of the communist monopoly across Central and Southeastern Europe in 1989-1990 initiated a process of rapid change. This updated second edition comprehensively describes the post-communist trajectory of the states of Central and Southeastern Europe, encompassing democratization, privatization, corruption, and war.