The Affective Forces of Ethnic Politics : But Look What They Did to Us!.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maksic, Adis.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

Examines how feelings of humiliation, grief, pride, and spite fuel intractable divisions by embedding emotional discourse and wounded identity deep within political life using case studies from Bosnia, Kosovo, Gaza, and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Text and Translation

List of Abbreviations

1 The Table and the Bag: Ethnic Mistrust as Bodily Truth

2 Decisions of the Body: Affect, Discourse, and the Illusion of Rational Choice

3 Spite and Stalemate: Bosnia's Postwar Affective Gridlock

4 Dignifying the Self, Humbling the Other: Kosovo's Status Conflict

5 Righteous Rage and Martyrdom: Affective Polarization in the Israel-Hamas War

6 Pride and Grief: Nagorno-Karabakh and the Weight of Victory and Loss

7 Righteousness Organized: The Collective Ego in Ethnopolitical Conflict

8 What Feeling Makes Possible: Affective Realism and Political Change

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-82-16-43939-4

979-82-16-43940-0