Ethnic times : exploring ethnonationalism in the former Yugoslavia / Dusan Kecmanovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kecmanović, Dušan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Yugoslavia.

Ethnicity.

Nationalism--Yugoslavia.

Nationalism.

Yugoslavia--Ethnic relations.

Yugoslavia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 186 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title provides a firsthand experience of ethnonationalism among the peoples of the three major ethnonational groups (Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks/Muslims) in the former Yugoslavia. It traces the transformations of leading principles, and views of people in times of severe ethnic tensions.

Contents:

Intro

Introductory Remarks

Between Old and New Regimes

Why There Are so Many Faithful

Journey Through Post-Yugoslavia States in the Height of Ethnic Times

Neither Sick nor Hale and Hearty

The Violence of Daily Life

The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Victim

His Father Saved Him

The Individual and the Collective in Ethnonationalism

A Good Enough Enemy

The Boomerang of Impassioned Bias

Endemic and Epidemic Ethnonationalists

Inverse Ethnonationalism

The Woes of Divided Loyalty

Ethnonationalism in the Genes

Brief Conversation with an Ethnonationalist about Children from Ethnically Mixed Marriages

Is There Something Mentally Wrong with Ethnonationalists?

Why Ethnonationalists Are Aggressive

Ethnic Stereotypes in the Writings of Croatian and Serbian Psychiatrists

Prove You're a Serb

Reactive Ethnonationalists

Obsession with Ethnicity

For Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780313074790

0313074798

OCLC:

70764338