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War, Community, and Social Change

Collective Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia

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Editors:
  1. Dario Spini

    1. Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  2. Guy Elcheroth

    1. Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  3. Dinka Corkalo Biruski

    1. Dept of Psychology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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  • Contains 'voices' section that are primary source accounts of the war in the former Yugoslavia
  • Provides diverse research perspectives on the effects of collective violence on communities
  • Explores interdisciplinary approaches to helping communities deal with the aftermath of war and trauma
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Peace Psychology Book Series (PPBS, volume 17)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  3. War and the Violent Experience of Community: How Ethnic Boundaries Became Part of Social Reality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Ethnic Intolerance as a Product Rather than a Cause of War: Revisiting the State of the Art

      • Dusko Sekulic
      Pages 45-62

    3. The Demise of Mixed Marriage?

      • Jean-Marie Le Goff, Francesco Giudici
      Pages 63-84

    4. The Destruction of Multiethnic Locations: Markers of Identity and the Determinants of Residential Trajectories

      • Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Eric D. Widmer
      Pages 85-98

    5. Compliance and Resistance to the Logic of Ethnic Conflict During the Siege of Sarajevo (Invited voice)

      • Ivana Macek
      Pages 99-103

    6. Beyond Ethnic Intolerance: Traces and Benefits of Ethnic Diversity in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina

      • Davide Morselli, Stefano Passini
      Pages 105-121

  4. Community and the Traumatising Experience of War: Collective Dimensions of Vulnerability and Resilience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. From Collective Victimhood to Social Reconciliation: Outlining a Conceptual Framework

      • Daniel Bar-Tal, Sabina Cehajic-Clancy
      Pages 125-136

    3. Traumatised Selves: Does War Trauma Facilitate In-Group Bonding and Out-Group Distancing?

      • Dinka Corkalo Biruski, Sandra Penic
      Pages 137-153

    4. When Nobody Stood Up and Everybody is Guilty: A Puzzle of Individual Responsibility and Collective Guilt (Invited voice)

      • Svetlana Broz
      Pages 155-161

    5. Threatened Powers: When Blaming “the others” Grows out of Internal Instability and Protest

      • Sandra Penic, Dinka Corkalo Biruski, Guy Elcheroth
      Pages 163-182

    6. Shattered Beliefs: How to Cope When the World Is not a Just Place?

      • Rachel Fasel, Dario Spini
      Pages 183-198

    7. A Slipping Memory: Can the International Criminal Tribunal be a Bulwark Against Oblivion?(Invited voice)

      • Florence Hartmann
      Pages 199-204

    8. Beyond Collective Denial: Public Reactions to Human Rights Violations and the Struggle over the Moral Continuity of Communities

      • Guy Elcheroth, Dario Spini
      Pages 205-226

    9. Conclusion-War and Community: What Have We Learned About Their Relationship?

      • Guy Elcheroth, Dinka Corkalo Biruski, Dario Spini
      Pages 227-235

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 237-241
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About this book

Collective experiences in the former Yugoslavia documents and analyses how social representations and practices are shaped by collective violence in a context of ethnic discourse. What are the effects of violence and what are the effects of collectively experienced victimisation on societal norms, attitudes and collective beliefs? This volume stresses that mass violence has a de- and re-structuring role for manifold psychosocial processes. A combined psychosocial approach draws attention to how most people in the former Yugoslavia had to endure and cope with war and dramatic societal changes and how they resisted and overcame ethnic rivalry, violence and segregation. It is a departure from the mindset that depict most people in the former Yugoslavia as either blind followers of ethnic war entrepreneurs or as intrinsically motivated for violence by deep-rooted intra-ethnic loyalties and inter-ethnic animosities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Dario Spini, Guy Elcheroth

  • Dept of Psychology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Dinka Corkalo Biruski

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: War, Community, and Social Change

  • Book Subtitle: Collective Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia

  • Editors: Dario Spini, Guy Elcheroth, Dinka Corkalo Biruski

  • Series Title: Peace Psychology Book Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7491-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-7490-6Published: 07 August 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8875-1Published: 26 August 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-7491-3Published: 13 August 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2197-5779

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-5787

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 241

  • Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology, International Relations, Migration

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