The Road to War in Serbia: Trauma and Catharsis

by Popov, Nebojsa; Gojkovic, Drinka; Central European University Press

• ISBN13: 9789639116566
• ISBN10: 9639116564
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Central European Univ Pr

Summary

The first serious assessment to thoroughly explore the roots of conflict inside former Yugoslavia. The authors highlight major issues which to date had remained neglected.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Destruction and Creation of a State
The War for Ethnic States	p. 9
Yugoslavia as a Mistake	p. 50
Traumatology of the Party State	p. 81
Roots of the Trauma
The Flight from Modernization	p. 109
An Uneasy View of the City	p. 123
The Unresolved Genocide	p. 146
Who Exploited Whom?	p. 160
Kosovo in the Collective Memory	p. 189
The Migrations of Serbs from Kosovo during the 1970s and 1980s: Trauma and/or Catharsis	p. 212
Ideological Bearing
The Church and the "Serbian Question"	p. 247
The Abuse of the Authority of Science	p. 274
The University in an Ideological Shell	p. 303
The Birth of Nationalism from the Spirit of Democracy	p. 327
Populist Wave Literature	p. 351
Football, Hooligans and War	p. 373
Political Mobilization
The 1974 Constitution as a Factor in the Collapse of Yugoslavia or as a Sign of Decaying Totalitarianism	p. 399
The Ruling Party	p. 425
The Traumatic Circle of the Serbian Opposition	p. 449
An Alternative to War	p. 479
The Army's Use of Trauma	p. 509
Media War
Politika in the Storm of Nationalism	p. 537
Turning the Electronic Media Around	p. 565
The Nation: Victim and Vengeance	p. 587
The Nationalization of Everyday Life	p. 608
Conflict and Compromise
The International Community and the Yugoslav Crisis	p. 633
Bibliography	p. 661
List of Contributors	p. 701
Name Index	p. 703
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