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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813417503321

Autore

Kecmanovic Dusan

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2002

ISBN

0-313-07479-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (vii, 186 pages)

Disciplina

305.8/009497

Soggetti

Ethnicity - Yugoslavia

Nationalism - Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.