Dusan Kecmanovic

Ethnic Times

Exploring Ethnonationalism in the Former Yugoslavia

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Produktbeschreibung

Kecmanovic deals with the phenomenon of ethnonationalism, both as a broad, worldwide concern and as a key ingredient to the struggles in the former Yugoslavia. As in the former Yugoslavia, the rise of ethnonationalistic sentiments and attitudes coincided with the transition from a state-and party-run affair to a new, post-communist type of government and society. Drawing upon his personal experiences in Sarajevo, Kecmanovic provides a unique view of the conflict. In a style accessible to students and general readers, he traces the transformations of leading principles, value systems, behavioral patterns, and views of people in times of severe ethnic tensions. At times nearly novelistic, the book examines epidemic ethnonationalism and individual manifestations such as violence toward members of other groups, beliefs that ethnic differences are genetic, a need to aggrandize and even manufacture differences between communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9780275974619
• ISBN-10: 0275974618
• Artikelnr.: 26926922

Autorenporträt

DUSAN KECMANOVIC is formerly professor of psychiatry and political psychology at Sarajevo University. He has published extensively in the field of social psychiatry, social pathology, and the psychology of ethnonationalism. Among his earlier publications are The Abuse of the Mentally Ill and The Mass Psychology of Ethnonationalism. Professor Kecmanovic left the war-ridden Balkans in 1993, and he has lived in Sydney, Australia since.

Inhaltsangabe

Introductory Remarks Between the Old Regime and the New Why There Are So
Many Faithful Journey Through Post-Yugoslavia 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
Enthnonationalism 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 Index