The Formation of Croatian National Identity

A Centuries-Old Dream?

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19981708
AutoresAlex J Bellamy (0000-0003-2490-4613, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Páginas224
Fecha de publicación2003-12-04
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaThe formation of Croatian national identity (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialWinchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.7228/manchester/9780719065026.001.0001
OpenAlexW2888173520
Open LibraryOL22566214M
ISBN9780719065026
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDT3PqrrnrE5EC
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas29

This book assesses the formation of Croatian national identity in the 1990s. It develops a novel framework, calling into question both primordial and modernist approaches to nationalism and national identity, before applying that framework to Croatia. In doing so, the book provides a new way of thinking about how national identity is formed and why it is so important. An explanation is given of how Croatian national identity was formed in the abstract, via a historical narrative that traces centuries of yearning for a national state. The book shows how the government, opposition parties, dissident intellectuals and diaspora groups offered alternative accounts of this narrative in order to legitimise contemporary political programmes based on different versions of national identity. It then looks at how these debates were manifested in social activities as diverse as football, religion, economics and language. This book attempts to make an important contribution to both the way we study nationalism and national identity, and our understanding of post-Yugoslav politics and society

Aesthetics · Art · Diaspora · Identity formation · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · National identity · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Croatia · Croatian National characteristics · Ethnicity · Group identity · History · National characteristics, Croatian · Social conditions