Serbian spaces of identity
Subtitle: narratives of belonging by the last "Yugo" generation
By: Zala Volcic
Series: The Hampton Press communication series. Communication, globalization, and cultural identity
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781612890067; 9781612890074
Subjects: Collective memory; Interviews; Relations; Yugoslav National characteristics; Serbian National characteristics; Mass media; Intellectuals; Social conditions; Civil society; Nationalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Narrating the Serbian nation; title: And its last "Yugo" generation; title: Personal introduction; title: Is the past a lost country? : conceptualizing nationalism and public sphere; title: Generational landscapes of memory and living; title: Why do this research; title: General purpose and methodological frameworks; title: The organization of the book; title: From Yugo-utopia to Serbian identity; title: The historical idea of the former Yugoslav identity; title: A nationalistic turn : towards the Serbian nationalist imaginary; title: The 1990s as generally remembered; title: The notion of "the West" in the Serbian national imaginary; title: The Western "othering" of the Serbs : the Balkans, the dark side of Europe; title: Serbian "othering" of the West; title: "They are all anti-war profiteers!" : contesting civil society landscapes in Serbia; title: The idea of civil society; title: Serbian discourses on civil society; title: The mass media : "those machines that created Serbian nationalism..."; title: Media systems in the former Yugoslavia and Serbia; title: "Blaming the media" discourse; title: Towards media education; title: Conclusions: Serbia reimagined : new nationalisms and identities; title: Welcome to the Milosevic show; title: The contradictions and paradoxes continue...; title: Postconflict reconciliation; title: New rhetorics of Serbian nationalism; title: Towards future research : some suggestions.