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Serbian Spaces of Identity

Author : Zala Volčič
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN 13 : 9781612890067
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Serbian Spaces of Identity written by Zala Volčič and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2011 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yugoslavia may be gone, but it lives on in the memory of its last generation, along with the potent mix of nationalisms, globalization, and historical tensions that helped dissove it. If the dissolution of Yugoslavia has taught us anything, it is that nationalism and globalization are not mutually exclusive. Drawing on the recollections of key figures among the last Serbian generation to grow up Yugoslav, this book explores the transition from socialsim to captitalism, from the dream of pan-Slavic working class identity to the contentious captitalist reality that gave us the work Balkanization.

Kosovo

Author : Denisa Kostovicova
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415348065
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Kosovo written by Denisa Kostovicova and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While exploring events that led to the bloodshed in Kosovo in 1999. Denisa Kostovicova shows that the legacy of ethnic segregation is one of the major obstacles the international community faces in its efforts to establish an integrated multi-ethnic society in this territory." "Of interest to academics and students of nationalism and politics as well as practitioners and journalists, this book is an important advance in research on one of the most tragic European conflicts of recent times."--Jacket.

Crisis and Ontological Insecurity

Author : Filip Ejdus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303020667X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Crisis and Ontological Insecurity written by Filip Ejdus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a novel way of thinking about crises in world politics. By building on ontological security theory, this work conceptualises critical situations as radical disjunctions that challenge the ability of collective agents to ‘go on’. These ontological crises bring into the realm of discursive consciousness four fundamental questions related to existence, finitude, relations and autobiography. In times of crisis, collective agents such as states are particularly attached to their ontic spaces, or spatial extensions of the self that cause collective identities to appear more firm and continuous. These theoretical arguments are illustrated in a case study looking at Serbia’s anxiety over the secession of Kosovo. The author argues that Serbia’s seemingly irrational and self-harming policy vis-à-vis Kosovo can be understood as a form of ontological self-help. It is a rational pursuit of biographical continuity and a healthy sense of self in the face of an ontological crisis triggered by the secession of a province that has been constructed as the ontic space of the Serbian nation since the late 19th century.

Between Concept and Identity

Author : Esteban Fernández-Cobián
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144386837X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Between Concept and Identity by : Esteban Fernández-Cobián

Download or read book Between Concept and Identity written by Esteban Fernández-Cobián and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The identity of places of worship is one of the most difficult problems faced by religious architecture at the start of this new millennium. Contemporary globalising experiences demand, peremptorily, a reflection, both conceptual and situational, on the origin of objects, people and institutions. Nevertheless, the chance of these migration flows annihilating already-existing religious identities is perceived as a problem. This problem is directly linked to the survival of architecture as a system carrying a material representation of the divine and constituting a self-reference system for the community of believers. Therefore, it is important to define the extent to which the new religious architecture has given room to an abstract type of formal experimentation which is disconnected from social reality. Does this architecture maintain its bridging, sacramental value, or, on the contrary, has it given way to the conceptualist trends still alive in the artistic world? Is metaphor a valid concept for the Christian religion? Is there an essential aspect linking this architecture to the centuries-old tradition of the Catholic Church? Different architectural, pedagogical, exhibition and formal initiatives have arisen in recent years and it is necessary to get to know them, with the purpose of understanding where contemporary religious architecture is heading in its eternal search for a permanent identity.

Identity, Ontological Security and Europeanisation in Republika Srpska

Author : Faris Kočan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303146169X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Book Synopsis Identity, Ontological Security and Europeanisation in Republika Srpska by : Faris Kočan

Download or read book Identity, Ontological Security and Europeanisation in Republika Srpska written by Faris Kočan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the impact of the process of accession to the European Union (EU) – i.e. Europeanisation – on the formulation of the ethnic identity of Bosnian Serbs and the political identity of Republika Srpska (RS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The centrepiece of the book is an examination of how it is possible that the expected effect of Europeanisation on ethnic identities in a post-conflict environment – a transformation of ethnic identities through desecuritisation – does not materialise in the case of BiH and the RS. The book starts from the assumption that the political elite in the RS uses Europeanisation as a context for the securitization of two sources of threats – the internal and external Other. This prevents the transformation of ethnic identities in BiH, and as a result also the desecuritisation of antagonisms among the ethnic groups of BiH. The results show that any attempt at a more active engagement by the EU and international community was interpreted by the RS political elite as Bosniak agenda aimed against the RS. In this respect, the book demonstrates that BiH’s EU accession process or a clearer EU perspective alone in scrutinized critical junctures did not outweigh the potential costs for the RS political elite if reforms aimed at creating a more functional BiH were to succeed. In all three analysed critical junctures, the political elite in RS presented motions for a more functional BiH as attempts to centralise the country and framed them as the beginning of the end for the RS as a political entity.

Re-Inventing the Media

Author : Graeme Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317381475
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Re-Inventing the Media written by Graeme Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era. While media and cultural studies has made much of the changes to the media landscape that have come from digital technologies, these constitute only part of the transformations that have taken place in what amounts of a reinvention of the media over the last two decades. Graeme Turner takes on the task of re-thinking how media studies approaches the whole of the contemporary media-scape by focusing on three large, cross-platform, and transnational themes: the decline of the mass media paradigm, the ongoing restructuring of the relations between the media and the state, and the structural and social consequences of celebrity culture. By addressing the fact that the reinvention of the media is not simply a matter of globalising markets or the take-up of technological change, Turner is able to explore the more fundamental movements and widespread trends that have significantly influenced the character of what the contemporary media have become, how it is structured, and how it is used. Re-Inventing the Media is a must-read for both students and scholars of media, culture and communication studies.

Discourses on Identity in 'First' and 'Other' Serbia

Author : Ana Omaljev
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838267117
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Discourses on Identity in 'First' and 'Other' Serbia written by Ana Omaljev and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serbia is still widely thought of as an unfinished state, whose people struggle to establish a compelling identity narrative in answer to the question 'who are we?'. While existing literature has over-analyzed Serbian nationalism, the Serbian public sphere remains largely ignored. This engaging and timely book fills this gap by giving context to the persistent and overwhelming dialogue between opposing factions on the identity spectrum in Serbia. Omaljev's focus on elite discourses provides a fresh perspective on this contentious subject. It offers an original understanding of the competing arguments surrounding 'First' and 'Other' Serbia and of the contested visions of Serbian national identity and broader European identity.By closely examining the identity vocabulary of Serbian elites and the opposing ways in which these elites view the use of labels such as 'anti-Serbian', 'patriot', and 'traitor', this book provides a vital lesson in post-conflict nation-building and raises important questions about the symbolic representations of political and cultural identities. A much-needed and compelling intervention in the Serbian identity discourse, Omaljev's work is a must-read for any researcher on the Western Balkans.

Face to Face

Author : Kausik Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000373738
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Face to Face written by Kausik Bandyopadhyay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While rivalry is embedded in any sporting event or performance, soccer, the world’s most popular mass spectator sport, has been an emblem of such rivalries since its inception as an organized sport. Some of these rivalries grow to become long-term and perennial by their nature, extent, impact and legacy, from the local to the global level. They represent identities based on widely diverse affiliations of human life—locality, region, nation, continent, community, class, culture, religion, ethnicity, and so on. Yet, at times, such rivalries transcend barriers of space and time, where soccer-clubs, -nations, -personalities, -organizations, -styles and -fans float and compete with intriguing identities. The present volume brings into focus some of the most fascinating and enduring rivalries in the world of soccer. It attempts to encapsulate, analyse and reconstruct those rivalries—between nations, between clubs, between personalities, between styles of play, between fandoms, and between organizations—in a historical perspective in relation to diverse identities, competing ideologies, contestations of power, psychologies of attachment, bonds of loyalty, notions of enmity, articulations of violence, and affinities of fan culture—some of the core manifestations of sporting rivalry. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.

National Identity in Serbia

Author : Vassilis Petsinis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788317084
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book National Identity in Serbia written by Vassilis Petsinis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia is little-known in the English-speaking world, even though it is a territory of high significance for the development of Serbian national identity. Vojvodina's multi-ethnic composition and historical experience has also encouraged the formation of a distinct regional identity. This book analyses the evolution of Vojvodina's identity over time and the unique pattern of ethnic relations in the province. Although approximately 25 ethnic communities live in Vojvodina, it is by no means a divided society. Intercultural cohabitation has been a living reality in the province for centuries and this largely accounts for the lack of ethnic conflict. Vassilis Petsinis explores Vojvodina's intercultural society and shows how this has facilitated the introduction of flexible and regionalized legal models for the management of ethnic relations in Serbia since the 2000s. He also discusses recent developments in the region, most notably the arrival of refugees from Syria and Iraq, and measures the impact that these changes have had on social stability and inter-group relations in the province.

Kosovo

Author : Dr Denisa Kostovicova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113427632X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Kosovo written by Dr Denisa Kostovicova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space explores the Albanian-Serbian confrontation after Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power and the policy of repression in Kosovo through the lens of the Kosovo education system. The argument is woven around the story of imposed ethnic segregation in Kosovo's education, and its impact on the emergence of exclusive notions of nation and homeland among the Serbian and Albanian youth in the 1990s. The book also critically explores the wider context of the Albanian non-violent resistance, including the emergence of the parallel state and its weaknesses. Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space not only provides an insight into events that led to the bloodshed in Kosovo in the late 1990s, but also shows that the legacy of segregation is one of the major challenges the international community faces in its efforts to establish an integrated multi-ethnic society in the territory.

From Class to Identity

Author : Jana Bacevic
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155225737
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book From Class to Identity written by Jana Bacevic and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jana Bacevic provides an innovative analysis of education policy-making in the processes of social transformation and post-conflict development in the Western Balkans. Based on case studies of educational reform in the former Yugoslavia - from the decade before its violent breakup to contemporary efforts in post-conflict reconstruction - From Class to Identity tells the story of the political processes and motivations underlying each reform.The book moves away from technical-rational or prescriptive approaches that dominate the literature on education policy-making during social transformation, and offers an example on how to include the social, political and cultural context in the understanding of policy reforms. It connects education policy at a particular time in a particular place with broader questions such as: What is the role of education in society? What kind of education is needed for a 'good' society? Who are the 'targets' of education policies (individuals/citizens, ethnic/religious/linguistic groups, societies)? Bacevic shows how different answers to these questions influence the contents and outcomes of policies.

Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space

Author : Rico Isaacs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317090195
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space written by Rico Isaacs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nation-building as a process is never complete and issues related to identity, nation, state and regime-building are recurrent in the post-Soviet region. This comparative, inter-disciplinary volume explores how nation-building tools emerged and evolved over the last twenty years. Featuring in-depth case studies from countries throughout the post-Soviet space it compares various aspects of nation-building and identity formation projects. Approaching the issue from a variety of disciplines, and geographical areas, contributors illustrate chapter by chapter how different state and non-state actors utilise traditional instruments of nation-construction in new ways while also developing non-traditional tools and strategies to provide a contemporary account of how nation-formation efforts evolve and diverge.

Nationalism, Identity and Statehood in Post-Yugoslav Montenegro

Author : Kenneth Morrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474235204
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Nationalism, Identity and Statehood in Post-Yugoslav Montenegro written by Kenneth Morrison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of political and social developments in Montenegro from the processes that led to the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Montenegro's eventful trajectory towards independence and, later, towards Euro-Atlantic integration. Kenneth Morrison draws upon an extensive range of primary and secondary sources to illuminate the key developments in Montenegro during three decades characterised by political, social and economic flux. Beginning with the 'happening of the people' in 1988 and concluding with a detailed analysis of political developments in the first decade since Montenegro gained its independence, the author addresses the themes of nationalism, identity, statehood and the party political dynamics in both the Montenegrin and the wider Southeast European context.

Branding Post-Communist Nations

Author : Nadia Kaneva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136658009
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Branding Post-Communist Nations written by Nadia Kaneva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nation branding--a set of ideas rooted in Western marketing--gained popularity in the post-communist world by promising a quick fix for the identity malaise of "transitional" societies. Since 1989, almost every country in Central and Eastern Europe has engaged in nation branding initiatives of varying scope and sophistication. For the first time, this volume collects in one place studies that examine the practices and discourses of the nation branding undertaken in these countries. In addition to documenting various rebranding initiatives, these studies raise important questions about their political and cultural implications.

Space and Pluralism

Author : Stefano Moroni
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633861268
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Space and Pluralism written by Stefano Moroni and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the social, functional and symbolic dimensions of urban space in today's world. The twelve essays are grouped in three parts, ranging from a conceptual framework to case descriptions rich with illustrations. They provide a valuable service in exploring the nature and significance of social space and particular aspects of its contemporary distribution and contestation. The book addresses a topic that is intrinsically interdisciplinary. Questions of space are examined from a rich variety of disciplinary perspectives in a welcome range from urban planning to political philosophy, shedding a good deal of light in the process. The issues in focus include the dichotomies of public and private space, discussion of rights and duties with regard to the use of space, or conflicts over its allocation. Well reasoned and presented discussion is offered from the perspective of basic values and rights. The policy issue of institutional recognition of the specifics of (minority community) identity is raised in opposition to abstract distributive accounts of justice.

Patterns of Im/mobility, Conflict and Identity

Author : Birgit Bräuchler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000460347
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Im/mobility, Conflict and Identity written by Birgit Bräuchler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patterns of im/mobility, collective identity and conflict are highly entangled. The im/mobility of a social or cultural group has major impact on how identity narratives, a sense of belonging and relationships to ‘others’ are shaped, and vice versa. These dynamics are closely interlinked with mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion between groups and power structures that involve a broad variety of actors from local populations, to migrants, government institutions and other intermediaries. Mainly looking at patterns of internal mobility such as ‘traditional’ or strategic mobilities and mobilities enforced by crisis, conflict or governmental programmes and regimes, this book aims to go beyond currently predominant issues of transnational migration. Dynamics of non/integration and belonging, caused by im/mobility, are analysed on a cultural and political level, which involves questions of representation, indigeneity/autochthony, political rights and access to land and other resources. With ethnographic case studies from Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Bangladesh, East Timor and Indonesia, this volume provides a comparative perspective on the multifold dimensions of im/mobility in contexts where changing mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion trigger or settle conflicts and social identities are constantly re/negotiated. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Social Identities.

Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation

Author : Annika Bjorkdahl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317409426
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation written by Annika Bjorkdahl and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new interdiscplinary analytical tool for examining post-conflict tranformation Presents five key post-conflict case studies to show link between agency and power Will be of interest to students of to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, human geography and IR in general