The Dissolution of Yugoslavia

Competing Narratives of Resentment and Blame

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3023398
AutoresSabrina Petra Ramet (0000-0003-2843-3898, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume55
Fascículo1
Páginas26-69
Data de publicação2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoComparative Southeast European Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2701-8199 • E-ISSN: 2701-8202
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/soeu-2007-550104
OpenAlexW2716301468
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas7

Serbs, Croats, Kosovar Albanians, and Bosniaks remember the past differently and, although there are differences of historical memory within each group, one can speak of there being a dominant but evolving historical narrative among each of these national groups. This diversity of historical memory creates resources which may be tapped by ambitious leaders. In accounting for the Yugoslav meltdown, however, one may identify three necessary conditions which were fulfilled: widespread discontent (itself reflecting system illegitimacy and economic deterioration), fracture lines along which the country might be dissolved, and leaders prepared to exploit discontent for their own purposes

Blame · Dissolution · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Resentment · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Chemistry · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society