National deconstruction : violence, identity, and justice in Bosnia / David Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, David, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology.

War--Psychological aspects.

War.

Fear.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Bosnia and Hercegovina--Psychological aspects.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How did Bosnia, once a polity of intersecting and overlapping identities, come to be understood as an intractable ethnic problem? National Deconstruction is a rethinking of the meaning of "ethnic/nationalist" violence and a critique of the impoverished discourse of identity politics that crippled the international response to the Bosnian crisis.

Contents:

Contents; Preface: Problematizing Bosnia; Acknowledgments; 1. Ethics, Politics, and Responsibility: The Bosnian Challenge; 2. Violence and the Political; 3. Ontoplogy: Representing the Violence in Bosnia; 4. Violence and Identity in Bosnia; 5. Responding to the Violence; 6. Deconstruction and the Promise of Democracy; 7. Bosnia and the Practice of Democracy; Note on Sconces; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-298) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8804-4

OCLC:

476094499