Syllabus
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Introduction 1) ‘Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist, and Post-Yugoslav’: the introductory characteristics of the Western Balkans in the 21. Century (21.2.2024)
Collective Memory in the Western Balkans 2) Politics of Memory: cycles of Yugoslav memory (28.2.2024) 3) Politics of Symbols: Fragmented memory: testimonies, reflections, and interpretations (6.3.2024)
Coping with the Violent Legacy of Yugoslav Wars in post-Yugoslav societies 4) Transitional justice – Coping with the past, war crimes, and their denial (20.3.2024) 5) Reconciliation After Violent Conflict: Situation from the ground (3.4.2024)
Legacy of post-socialist transformation in post-Yugoslav societies 6) ‘Yugonostalgy’ in post-conflict, post-socialist, and post-Yugoslav society (10.4.2024) 7) Social Unrest in the Western Balkan countries – the aftermath of post-socialist neoliberalisation (17.4.2024)
Case studies 8) Post-Tudjman Croatia (24.4.2024) 9) Post-Milošević Serbia (1.5.2024 – online or a recorded teaching) 10) ‘Dayton’ Bosnia and Herzegovina (8.5.2024 – online or a recorded teaching) 11) The International Community and its Role in Kosovo (15.5.2024)
Annotation
This course examines the enduring impacts and reverberations of the Yugoslav wars across post-conflict societies in the Western Balkans. Through the span of thirteen seminars, the principal aim is to provide students with an overview of the significant impacts of the political, economic, and social aspects of the Yugoslav wars during the 1990s.
The core focus centers primarily on those former Yugoslav republics whose populations have contended most directly with surmounting the lingering aftermath of warfare and violence, namely Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. Additionally, the seminars explore political and socio-economic developments unfolding in other post-Yugoslav republics, especially Serbia and Montenegro, alongside Albanian-speaking regions.
This course investigates a host of phenomena related to warfare, violence, and suffering that have impacted post-conflict, post-socialist, and post-Yugoslav societies in the Western Balkan republics.