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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457407503321

Autore

Campbell David <1961->

Titolo

National deconstruction [[electronic resource] ] : violence, identity, and justice in Bosnia / / David Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1998

ISBN

0-8166-8804-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Disciplina

302

Soggetti

Social psychology

War - Psychological aspects

Fear

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.