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Ethnic conflict and war crimes in the Balkans : the narratives of denial in post-conflict Serbia /

By: Obradovic-Wochnik, Jelena.
Series: Library of Balkan studies: v. 1.Publisher: London : New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013Description: ix, 257 pages ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781848850033; 9781848850033; 1848850034.Subject(s): Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Atrocities -- Serbia | Atrocities -- Serbia -- Public opinion | Ethnic conflict -- Serbia | War crimes -- Serbia -- Public opinion | War crimes -- Serbia | Human rights -- Serbia -- Public opinion | War and society -- Serbia | Kosovo War, 1998-1999 | Transitional justice -- Serbia | Nationalism -- Serbia | Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Serbia | Serbia -- History -- 1992- | Kosovo (Serbia) -- History -- Civil War, 1998-1999DDC classification: 949.71031
Contents:
Introduction -- Confronting violent pasts -- A short summary of events: the 1990s conflicts, war crimes and NATO air strikes -- 'That was just not normal': the 1990s as a decade of sickness, insanity and horror -- 'You can't believe it's happening': knowledge, silence and terror -- 'I try not to think about it because it is far too horrific': denial, acknowledgement and distancing -- 'Haven't Serbs also been killed?" victimhood, resentment and marginality -- 'Was it all a part of a secret plan?': subversion, resistance and 'theorising fears' through conspiracy -- Conclusion.
Summary: Obradović engages with ideas about post-conflict societies, memory, cultural trauma and national myths of victimhood to shed light upon Serbian denial of war crimes. Rather than treating denial as a failure to come to terms with the past she argues that it is a method of incorporating violence into societies' boundaries.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-254) and index.

Introduction -- Confronting violent pasts -- A short summary of events: the 1990s conflicts, war crimes and NATO air strikes -- 'That was just not normal': the 1990s as a decade of sickness, insanity and horror -- 'You can't believe it's happening': knowledge, silence and terror -- 'I try not to think about it because it is far too horrific': denial, acknowledgement and distancing -- 'Haven't Serbs also been killed?" victimhood, resentment and marginality -- 'Was it all a part of a secret plan?': subversion, resistance and 'theorising fears' through conspiracy -- Conclusion.

Obradović engages with ideas about post-conflict societies, memory, cultural trauma and national myths of victimhood to shed light upon Serbian denial of war crimes. Rather than treating denial as a failure to come to terms with the past she argues that it is a method of incorporating violence into societies' boundaries.

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