Syllabus
1) "Recounting the Dead" - Nationalist Propaganda in the 1980s in Socialist Yugoslavia
Required Reading
HAYDEN, R.: Recounting the Dead: The Rediscovery and Redefinition of Wartime Massacres in Late- and Post-Communist Yugoslavia. In: HAYDEN, R. (ed.): From Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans. Studies of a European Disunion, 1991-2011, Boston 2013, pp.
Recommended Reading
DENICH, B.: Dismembering Yugoslavia: The Nationalist Ideologies and the Symbolic Revival of Genocide. In: American Ethnologist, Vol. 21, p. 367-390.
DENICH, B.: Unmaking Multi-Ethnicity in Yugoslavia: Metamorphosis Observed. In: Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol. 11, No. 1−2.
ANĐELIĆ, N.: The Rise of Nationalism and the Communists (4. kapitola). In: ANĐELIĆ, N.: Bosnia-Herzegovina. The End of a Legacy, London 2005, pp. 96-119.
HAMMEL, E.: The Yugoslav Labyrinth. In: Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol. 11, No. 1−2. 2) "On the Edge of Abyss" - Constitutional Disintegration of Federal Yugoslavia
Required Reading
HAYDEN, R.: chapter 4. In: HAYDEN, R.: Blueprints for a House Divided: the Constitutional Logic of the Yugoslav Conflicts, Ann Arbor 1999.
Recommended Reading
GAGNON, V. P.: Yugoslavia in 1989 and after. In: Nationalities Papers, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2010, 23-39.
RAMET, S. P.: III. kapitola. In: RAMET, S. P.: Thinking about Yugoslavia. Scholarly Debates about Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bonsia and Kosovo, New York 2005, pp. 54-75.
ANĐELIĆ, N.: Nationalist Rule (7. kapitola). In: ANĐELIĆ, N.: Bosnia-Herzegovina. The End of a Legacy, London 2005, pp. 180-202.
GAGNON, V. P.: Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict. The Case of Serbia. In: International Security, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1994-1995, 130-166 3) A Civil War or Aggression? Understanding of the Wars in Former Yugoslavia
Required Reading
SMAJLOVIĆ, L: From the heart of the heart of the former Yugoslavia. In: The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1995, p. 14.
BANAC, I.: What Happened in the Balkans (or Rather ex-Yugoslavia?). In: East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 23, 2009, pp. 461-478.
Recommended Reading
STOKES, G., LAMPE, J., RUSINOW, D., MOSTOV, J.: Instant History: Understanding the Wars of Yugoslav Succession. In: Slavic Review, Vol. 55, No. 1, 1996.
BAKIC-HAYDEN, M., HAYDEN, R. (1992) ‘Orientalist Variations on the Theme "Balkans": Symbolic Geography in Recent Yugoslav Politics’, Slavic Review 51(1): 1-15.
STOKES, G.: Solving the Wars of Yugoslav Succession. In: NAIMARK, Norman M., ed. a CASE, Holly, ed. Yugoslavia and its Historians: Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990S. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.
RAMET, S. P.: IV. kapitola. In: RAMET, S. P.: Thinking about Yugoslavia. Scholarly Debates about Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bonsia and Kosovo, New York 2005, pp. 76-107. 4) Violence in the Wars in Former Yugoslavia: Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide?
Required Reading
MOJZES, P.: Chapter 1. In: MOJZES, P.: Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century. Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield 2011.
Recommended Reading
WEINE, S.: Chapter II (Living through Ethnic Cleansing). WEINE, When History Is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, London 1999.
MELANDER, E.: Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995, University of Essex 2007 [cit. 2012-9-4]. Dostupné z: ˂http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~ksg/dscw2007/Melander.pdf>.
CALIC, M-J.: Ethnic Cleansing and War Crimes, 1991-1995. In: INGRAO, C., EMMERT, T. A.: Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies. A Scholars’ Initiative. West Lafayette, Indiana 2009.
CUSHMAN, T.: Anthropology and Genocide in the Balkans. An analysis of cenceptual practices of power. In: Anthropological Theory, Vol. 4, pp. 5-28.
HAYDEN, R.: Innacurate data, spurious issues, and editorial failure in Cushman’s ´Anthropology and Genocide in the Balkans. In: Anthropological Theory, Vol. 4, pp. 545-554. 5) A Civil War or Aggression? The war in Croatia and Its Interpretation
Required Reading
RAMET, S.: Politics in Croatia since 1990. In: RAMET, S. P. (ed.): Central and southeast European politics since 1989, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 258-285.
MOJZES, P.: War in Croatia. In: MOJZES, P.: Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century. Lanha 2011, pp. 151-162.
Recommended Reading
JANSEN, S.: The Violence of Memories. Local narratives of the pastafter ethnic cleansing in Croatia. In: Rethinking History, Vol. 6, 2002, pp. 77-94.
SADKOVICH, J.: Patriots, Villains, and Franjo Tudjman. In: 6) A Civil War or Aggression? The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Its Interpretation
Required Reading
JANSEN, S.: Remembering with a Difference: Clashing Memories of Bosnian Conflict in Everyday Life. In: BOUGAREL, X., HELMS, E., DUIJZINGS, G. (eds.): The new Bosnian mosaic: identities, memories and moral claims in a post-war society. Hampshire 2007
CAMPBELL D.: Violence and Identity in Bosnia. In: CAMPBELL D.: National Deconstruction : Violence, Identity, and Justice in Bosnia, Minneapolis 1998, pp. 83-114.
Recommended Reading
KALYVAS, S. N., SAMBANIS, N.: Bosnia’s Civil War. Origins and Violence Dynamics. In: COLLIER, P., SAMBANIS, N. (eds.): Understanding civil war: Europe, Central Asia, and other regions: evidence and analysis. Volume 2, Europe, Central Asia, and other regions, Washington 2005.
MUELLER, J.: The Banality of ‘Ethnic War‘: Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Ohio 2000.
SHRADER, CH.: The Muslim-Croat civil war in Central Bosnia: a military history, 1992-1994, Texas 2003.
FOTINI, C.: Following the Money: Muslim versus Muslim in Bosnia’s Civil War. In: Comparative Politics, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2008, pp. 461-480. 7) "Life under Siege": Strategy of Surviving in a Besieged City. Examples from Sarajevo and Goražde
Required Reading
SACCO, J.: Safe area Goražde. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2005.
MAČEK, I.: ‘Imitation of Life’: Negotiating Normality in Sarajevo under Siege. In: BOUGAREL, X., HELMS, E., DUIJZINGS, G. (eds.): The new Bosnian mosaic: identities, memories and moral claims in a post-war society, Hampshire 2007, pp. 39-57.
Recommended Reading
MAČEK, I.: Sarajevo under siege: Anthropology in Wartime, Philadelphia 2009. 8) The Role of Religion in the War. Examples from Bosnia-Herzegovina
Required Reading
MOJZES, P.: The Camouflaged Role of Religion in the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: MOJZES, P. (ed.): Religion and the War in Bosnia. Atlanta 1998.
COHEN, L. J.: Bosnia’s "Tribal Gods": The Role of Religion in Nationalist Politics. In: MOJZES, P. (ed.): Religion and the War in Bosnia. Atlanta 1998
Recommended Reading
VRCAN, S.: The Religious Factor and the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: MOJZES, P. (ed.): Religion and the War in Bosnia. Atlanta 1998.
VELIKONJA, M.: A War over Differences: The Religious Dimensions of the Conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In: VELIKONJA, M.: Religious separation and political intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003 9) Violence Brought into Ex-Yugoslav Communities from the Outside: Paramilitary Units, Volunteers and Foreign Combatants
Required Reading
VIVOD, M.: In the Shadow of the Serbian Paramilitary Units: Narrative Patterns about the Role of Paramilitary Units in Former Yugoslav Conflict. In: Advances in Anthropology, Vol. 3, 2013, pp. 23-32.
OLUIC, S.: Radical Islam on Europe’s Frontier - Bosnia & Herzegovina. In: National Security And The Future, Vol. 9, 2008.
Recommended Reading
KOHLMANN, E.: Al-Qaida’s Jihad in Europe: the Afghan-Bosnian network, Oxford 2004.
DELISO, CH.: The coming Balkan caliphate: the threat of r
Annotation
The course focuses on selected aspects of (post-)conflict society in the Western Balkans after the break-up of the so-called Eastern Bloc. Because of the break-up of socialist Yugoslavia in 1991, tensions and collective violence escalated in the Western Balkans (initially in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, later also in Kosovo and FYROM).
The course examines both political and socio-economic causes of why the tensions escalated to such an extent in the former Yugoslav republics. It likewise puts emphasis on the typology of conflicts, chosen phenomena which influenced ex-Yugoslav communities in the course of the war and on the formation of a new war identity.
Attention is also devoted to paramilitary groups and to the impacts of the war under scrutiny on the behaviour of societies as well as of individuals. The principal aim of the course is to provide students with an overview of the main aspects of war anthropology and their influence on communities dramatically changed by war.