War, Community, and Social Change

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.

• collective victimhood and collective resistance
• compliance and resistance in ethnic conflict
• determinants of residential trajectories
• ethnic intolerance
• intermarriage among ethnic groups
• residential mobility

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

  Dario Spini, Guy Elcheroth

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

  Dinka Corkalo Biruski

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