Editors:
- Explores how nationalists in the former Yugoslavia have politicized history and historical narratives for political gain
- Draws on examples from all of the former Yugoslav republics
- Gathers contributions from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives
Part of the book series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe (MOMEIDSEE)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
“This book is very timely: the instrumentalization of history for political goals has become a pressing issue and worrisome feature of many polities, to the point of challenging even the most consolidated democracies. Focusing on Yugoslavia’s fragile successor states, the authors explore plurifold analytical levels, including local, regional, transnational, European and global perspectives. The authors comprehensively demonstrate how politicizing history, in the postwar and postcommunist societies of what was once Yugoslavia, has prevented both reconciliation and democratization.”
—Sabine Rutar, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Germany
—Paul Mojzes, Professor Emeritus, Rosemont College, USA
“The former Yugoslavia has become a battlefield for the ‘Memory Wars’, in spite of the wealth of judicially established facts and available evidences gathered about the atrocities in the region, and various initiatives aimed at dealing with the past and efforts at transitional justice. Focusing on three periods of Yugoslav history – the Second World War, socialist Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav wars of 1991–2001 – the contributors show that despite these efforts to deal with the past, sustainable peace and reconciliation across ethnic and religious groups remain a distant aim.”
—Marijana Toma, Center for Cultural Decontamination, Serbia
This book analyzes how nationalists in the former Yugoslavia have politicized history to further their political agendas, retaining and prolonging conflict among different cultural and religious groups, and impeding the process of lasting reconciliation. It explores how narratives have been (mis)used, drawing on examples from all of the former Yugoslav republics. With contributors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, it provides a vital assessment of how nationalists have attempted to (re)shape public collective memory and relativize facts.
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Editors and Affiliations
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University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Gorana Ognjenovic
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Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Oslo, Norway
Jasna Jozelic
About the editors
Jasna Jozelic is a PhD candidate and research advisor at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nationalism and the Politicization of History in the Former Yugoslavia
Editors: Gorana Ognjenovic, Jasna Jozelic
Series Title: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65832-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65831-1Published: 20 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65834-2Published: 20 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65832-8Published: 19 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2523-7985
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7993
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 377
Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Memory Studies, Political History, Cultural History