The Road to War in Serbia: Trauma and Catharsis

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Central European University Press, 2000 M01 1 - 711 pages
The first serious assessment to thoroughly explore the roots of conflict inside former Yugoslavia. The authors highlight major issues which to date had remained neglected.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Yugoslavia as a Mistake
50
Traumatology of the Party State 81 8
81
The Flight from Modernization
109
An Uneasy View of the City
123
The Unresolved Genocide
146
Who Exploited Whom?
160
Kosovo in the Collective Memory
189
Constitution as a Factor in the Collapse of Yugo
399
The Ruling Party
425
The Traumatic Circle of the Serbian Opposition
449
An Alternative to War
479
The Armys Use of Trauma
509
Politika in the Storm of Nationalism
537
Turning the Electronic Media Around
565
Victim and Vengeance
587

The Migrations of Serbs from Kosovo during the 1970s and
212
The Church and the Serbian Question
247
The Abuse of the Authority of Science
274
The University in an Ideological Shell
303
Populist Wave Literature
351
Football Hooligans and War
373
The Nationalization of Everyday Life
608
The International Community and the Yugoslav Crisis
633
Bibliography
661
List of Contributors
701
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About the author (2000)

Nebojša Popov is Scientific Counselor at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory of Belgrade University. He is the former President of the Yugoslav Association of Sociology.

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