in Croatian
Bibliography on ethnic relations and minorities in Croatia
after 1990
Compiled by Ivana Djuric
djuriciva@hotmail.com
This bibliography, as all other annotated bibliographies
published by LGI Managing Multiethnic Communities Project, contains two parts.
The first part is on the books printed after 1990, devoted to the ethnic
issues in Croatia. The second part contains various articles published in
periodicals after 1990 on the same topic. The bibliography had no intention to
become complete and focuses mainly on publications in the Croatian language,
but not exclusively. Although minority languages and scripture are included,
the language of the bibliography is Croatian because it compiles literature
published in Croatian. The main purpose of bibliography is to inform rather
than to reflect dominant trends in Croatian academic production.
Criteria of selection
Subjectivity was an important characteristic of the
selection procedure. Basic intention was to include scholarly works on
interethnic relations in Croatia after 1990. That means that nonacademic
writings, memoirs and testimonies are avoided. Also, the articles shorter than
3 pages are not taken into account. As agreed with LGI, nationalistic
discourse is excluded. The year 1990 has been selected as the starting point
due to the changes that affected ethnic relations and social sciences in all
post-socialist countries. During selection an attempt has been made to
represent a variety of academic themes. Therefore the selected titles can be
placed into 5 categories: ethnic identity, war in Croatia, interethnic
relations, human and minority rights, multiculturalism. Despite the attempt to
balance representation of all social sciences, it is evident that sociology,
history, ethnology and political science prevail. Also, a great number of
selected items deals with Serbo-Croatian relations which is due to the recent
war in Croatia. Special attention has been made to include works completed by
minority writers. All selected titles are publicly accessible. The research
has been conducted in National University Library, City Library and Bozidar
Adzija Library in Zagreb, Croatia.
Acknowledgement of reviewers:
I owe a special recognition to Nenad Dimitrijevic (CEU -
Budapest, Political Science Department), Vladimir Bilandzic (CEU - Budapest,
Southeastern-European Studies Department), Mislav Kukoc (Croatian Studies,
Zagreb), and Arpad Barath (Janus Pannonius University, Pecs) who reviewed the
bibliography and provided valuable comments.
About the editor:
Ivana Djuric holds an MA degree in Southeast European Studies from Central
European University, Budapest. Her first degrees are in Political Science and
Journalism from University of Zagreb. Her main interests are comparative
politics, Southeast European studies, nationalism, minority issues, Diaspora
and gender studies.
