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1 online resource (268 pages) |
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Acknowledgements; list of abbreviations; 1. introduction; 2. confronting violent pasts; 3. a short summary of events: the 1990s conflicts, war crimes and nato air strikes; 4. 'that was just not normal': the 1990s as a decade of sickness, insanity and horror; 5. 'you can't believe it's happening': knowledge, silence and terror; 6. 'i try not to think about it because it is far too horrific': denial, acknowledgement and distancing; 7. 'haven't serbs also been killed?': victimhood, resentment and marginality |
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8. 'was it all a part of a secret plan?': subversion, resistance and 'theorising fears' through conspiracy9. conclusion; notes; references; index |
| Summary |
In the years following the fall of Slobodan Miloševic, Serbian social, cultural and political responses to the wars of the 1990s have fallen under intense international scrutiny. But is this scrutiny justfied, and how can these responses be better understood? Jelena Obradovic engages with ideas about post-conflict societies, memory, cultural trauma, and national myths of victimhood and justified war to shed light upon Serbian denial and justification of war crimes - for example, Serbia's reluctant cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Rather tha |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Atrocities -- Serbia
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Ethnic conflict -- Serbia
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War crimes -- Serbia
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War and society -- Serbia
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Kosovo War, 1998-1999.
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Nationalism -- Serbia
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European history.
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LAW -- International.
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Atrocities
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Ethnic conflict
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Nationalism
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War and society
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War crimes
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Kosovo-Krieg
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| SUBJECT |
Serbia -- History -- 1992- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95000815
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Kosovo (Republic)
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Serbia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857722591 |
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085772259X |
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