Author: Mihailo Crnobrnja
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773514294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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The updated second edition provides an evaluation of events over the last two years and the prospects for a lasting peace following the Dayton Accord.
Author: Louis Sell
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822332237
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Focusing on the life and career of Slobodan Milosevic from the perspective of both a diplomatic insider and a scholar, this text provides first-hand observations of Milosevic during his rise to power and, later, in the endgame of the Bosnian war.
Author: Sofija Stefanovic
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501165763
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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A “funny and tragic and beautiful in all the right places” (Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestseller author of Furiously Happy) memoir about the immigrant experience and life as a perpetual fish-out-of-water, from the acclaimed Serbian-Australian storyteller. Sofija Stefanovic makes the first of many awkward entrances in 1982, when she is born in socialist Yugoslavia. The circumstances of her birth (a blackout, gasoline shortages, bickering parents) don’t exactly get her off to a running start. While around her, ethnic tensions are stoked by totalitarian leaders with violent agendas, Stefanovic’s early life is filled with Yugo rock, inadvisable crushes, and the quirky ups and downs of life in a socialist state. As the political situation grows more dire, the Stefanovics travel back and forth between faraway, peaceful Australia, where they can’t seem to fit in, and their turbulent homeland, which they can’t seem to shake. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia collapses into the bloodiest European conflict in recent history. Featuring warlords and beauty queens, tiger cubs and Baby-Sitters Clubs, Sofija Stefanovic’s memoir is a window to a complicated culture that she both cherishes and resents. Revealing war and immigration from the crucial viewpoint of women and children, Stefanovic chronicles her own coming-of-age, both as a woman and as an artist. Refreshingly candid, poignant, and illuminating, “Stefanovic’s story is as unique and wacky as it is important” (Esquire).
Author: Franke Wilmer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135956219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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The Social Construction of Man, the State, and War is the fist book on conflict in the former Yugoslavia to look seriously at the issue of ethnic identity, rather than treating it as a given, an unquestionable variable. Combining detailed analysis with a close reading of historical narratives, documentary evidence, and first-hand interviews conducted in the former Yugoslavia, Wilmer sheds new light on how ethnic identity is constructed, and what that means for the future of peace and sovereignty throughout the world.
Author: Radmila Gorup
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804787344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The book brings together many of the best known commentators and scholars who write about former Yugoslavia. The essays focus on the post-Yugoslav cultural transition and try to answer questions about what has been gained and what has been lost since the dissolution of the common country. Most of the contributions can be seen as current attempts to make sense of the past and help cultures in transition, as well as to report on them. The volume is a mixture of personal essays and scholarly articles and that combination of genres makes the book both moving and informative. Its importance is unique. While many studies dwell on the causes of the demise of Yugoslavia, this collection touches upon these causes but goes beyond them to identify Yugoslavia's legacy in a comprehensive way. It brings topics and writers, usually treated separately, into fruitful dialog with one another.
Author: Branislav Jakovljevic
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053140
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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Examines the interplay of artistic, political, and economic performance in the former Yugoslavia and reveals their inseparability
Author: Branislav Radeljić
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030703436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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In Researching Yugoslavia and its Aftermath, a common thread is the authors’ path through the time and space context in which fieldwork has taken place. Accordingly, this collection tackles problems that have always existed but have not been dealt with in a single volume. In particular, it examines a range of methodological questions arising from the contributors’ shared concerns, and thus the obstacles and solutions characterising the relationship between researchers and their objects of study. Being an interdisciplinary project, this book brings together highly regarded historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, cultural and social theorists, as well as experts in architecture and communication studies. They share a belief that the awareness of the researcher’s own position in fieldwork is a precondition of utmost significance to comprehend the evolution of objects of study, and hence to ensure transparency and ultimate credibility of the findings. Moreover, the contributors come from diverse backgrounds, including authors from the former Yugoslavia and others who have made their way to the region after starting their research careers; some from universities in the area, others from institutions in the Global North. Here, they explore cross-cutting issues such as the repercussions of gender, nationality, institutional affiliation and the consequences of their entry into the field. This is examined in terms of the results of the research and the ethical aspect of the relationship with the object of study, as well as the implications of the chosen time framework in the methodological design and the clash between this decision and the interests of the actors studied.
Author: Anton Zabkar
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788139444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Discusses four aspects of the situation in the former Yugoslavia: the realities of the Bosnian situation including military factors that could influence events and change in Serbian strategy in Bosnia-Herzegovina; civil-military relations in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with an inside view of the interaction of Serb politics and politicians with the Yugoslav army and police force; the strategic role of the eastern Adriatic coast in the 20th century; and a comparison between the conflict situation which preceded and surrounded the Berlin Congress of 1878 and the current situation in Bosnia.
Author: Christopher Bennett
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814712886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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An incisive and revealing history of how Yugoslavia plunged into violence in the 1990s Over the past two years, the entire world watched in horror as one of Europe's most stable countries plunged into an orgy of violence and bloodshed that has invoked comparisons to the Holocaust. Aside from empty threats and diplomatic hand wringing, the West has done little to stop the ethnic cleansing, the sieges, and the brutality that has characterized the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Contrary to common wisdom, the hyper-violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia is not simply and exclusively the product of inherent and irrational ethnic animosities and centuries of strife. In this engaging book, journalist Christopher Bennett traces the turning point to the 1987 struggle within the Serbian Communist party which was between adherents of a Serb nationalist ideology -embodied by Slobodan Milosevic- and the other Yugoslavs who clung to the vision of a multinational state. As soon as Milosevic gained the upper hand, he ruthlessly purged his rivals and launched a massive campaign of media indoctrination to stir up Serb nationalism. This new nationalism, which has repelled the world since 1991, is primarily Milosevic's creation and not merely the result of historical enmity. As a student at two different Yugoslav universities in the 1980's, Bennett witnessed firsthand many if the critical events which contributed to Yugoslavia's destruction. He renders an incisive and accessible history, covering the period from Tito's dictatorship to the present day.
Author: Phillip Corwin
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822321262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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A senior UN official's account of the war in Bosnia as he experienced it on duty in Sarajevo.
