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Anti-War Initiatives and the Un-Making of Civic Identities in the Former Yugoslav Republics |
| Institution |
Department of Sociology; University of California at San Diego: La Jolla, CA 92093 |
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Publication (Journal) |
Journal of Historical Sociology 10 no. 2 (June 1997): 127-56 |
| Published in |
U.K., 1997 |
| Language |
English |
| Abstract |
The author describes the emergence of antiwar initiatives in the former Yugoslavia against the background of the official nationalism of communist elites and their post-1990 successors. It is argued that antiwar activism in the disintegrating state was a mobilization of the most articulate segment of a widespread, all-Yugoslav, urban, cosmopolitan, and genuinely nonethnonationalistic cultural identity. The structural preconditions of ethnonationalism as top-to-bottom projects of the ex-communist middle- to high- ranking functionaries in search of legitimacy and forced to create a democratic electorate. |
| Discipline(s) |
political sociology
, history
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