Ethnic intolerance and ethnic conflict in the dissolution of Yugoslavia

Sekulić, Duško; Massey, Garth; Hodson, Randy

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“…When one of us co‐conducted a new survey across the former Yugoslavia in 2006 (see Spini, Elcheroth, & Fasel, 2010), only a tiny minority of our cohort sample could still imagine marrying across ethnic boundaries—less than one‐third as compared to equivalent age or birth groups in 1990. Similar results were reported by Sekulic, Massey, and Hodson (2006) for earlier postwar surveys, one of them conducted immediately after the war. How could such a dramatic and long‐lasting shift in the meaning of ethnic categories occur in a short period?…”

Section: Social Representational Analysis At Work: Revisiting “Ethnicsupporting

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On the Knowledge of Politics and the Politics of Knowledge: How a Social Representations Approach Helps Us Rethink the Subject of Political Psychology

Elcheroth

Doise

Reicher

2011

Political Psychology

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Fifty years ago, Serge Moscovici first outlined a theory of social representations. In this article, we attempt to discuss and to contextualize research that has been inspired by this original impetus from the particular angle of its relevance to political psychology. We argue that four defining components of social representations need to be taken into account, and that these elements need to be articulated with insights from the social identity tradition about the centrality of self and group constructions in order to develop original insights into political psychological phenomena. First, social representations are shared knowledge, and the way interpretations of the world are collectively elaborated is critical to the way people are able to act within the world. Second, social representations are meta-knowledge, which implies that what people assume relevant others know, think, or value is part of their own interpretative grid, and that collective behavior can often be influenced more powerfully at the level of meta-representations than of intimate beliefs. Third, social representations are enacted communication, which means that social influence is exerted by the factors that constrain social practices as much as by the discourse that interprets these practices. Fourth, social representations are world-making assumptions: collective understandings do not only reflect existing realities but often bring social reality into being. Put together, these four components provide a distinctive theoretical perspective on power, resistance and conflict. The added conceptual value of this perspective is illustrated by showing how it allows revisiting ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia. We conclude with implications for research practices and discuss how the proposed model of social representations invites us to define new priorities and challenges for the methods used to study political psychological phenomena.

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Section: Social Representational Analysis At Work: Revisiting “Ethnicsupporting

confidence: 90%

On the Knowledge of Politics and the Politics of Knowledge: How a Social Representations Approach Helps Us Rethink the Subject of Political Psychology

Elcheroth

Doise

Reicher

2011

Political Psychology

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289

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“…Such images were portrayed in international media reports about the conflicts (Clark, 2008;Sekulic, Massey, & Hodson, 2006). Seeking refuge in Serbian territory, therefore, would have resulted in a degree of acceptance in light of the public retribution experienced by the Serbian population as a whole.…”

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Serbian Stories of Translocation: Factors Influencing the Refugee Journey Arising from the Balkan Conflicts of the 1990s

King

Welch

Owens

2010

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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This qualitative study highlights the experiences of ten Serbian refugees who migrated to South Australia from former Yugoslavia as a result of the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s. Multiple semi-structured interviews were employed to examine participants' experiences before, during and after the conflicts. Eight stages of the refugee journey were identified: prewar peaceful co-existence, outbreak of war, fleeing towards refuge in Serbian-held territory, realisation that the pre-war life cannot be regained, dissatisfaction with the family's transition situation, decision and application to emigrate, migration and resettlement in Australia, and adaptation to life in Australia. A number of factors were found to influence each stage of the refugee journey (e.g., social, practical and health challenges, age, and negative Serbian stereotypes). From these findings, three adaptation patterns — active integration, passive integration, and segregation — were identified as specific to the participants in the current study.

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“…Suprotno teorijama potisnute nacionalne mržnje (Sekulić, Massey i Hodson, 2006) ovdje se čini da nacionalni ekskluzivizam 1989. opada (a ne raste) u odnosu na 1985. To bismo mogli protumačiti kao posljedicu straha, jer je povećanje tenzija prema nacionalnim kriterijima postajalo sve očitije.…”

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Sekulić

2013

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Rad se bavi analizom dinamike promjena stavova i vrijednosti u Hrvatskoj u razdoblju od 1985. do 2010. s posebnim naglaskom na prijelome koji nastaju raspadom socijalističkog poretka i konstituiranjem novoga kapitalističkog i demokratskog poretka. Dva su osnovna nalaza. S raspadom socijalizma dolazi do kombinacije retradicionalizacije i modernizacije. One vrijednosne dimenzije koje su izravno povezane s dimenzijama identiteta retradicionaliziraju se, a one koje su malo udaljenije od identitetske jezgre moderniziraju se. S druge strane, inicijalno velika potpora liberalnim načelima, tržištu i demokraciji, nakon iskustva s njihovom provedbom u hrvatskim uvjetima, pada. U drugome dijelu rada analizira se struktura vrijednosnog sustava i kao dominantna utvrđuje se opreka između modernizma i tradicionalizma. U doba najveće potpore liberalnim vrijednostima i liberalizam se izdvaja kao posebna dimenzija, ali s padom te potpore on se vraća unutar tradicionalizma. Bitan i neočekivani nalaz jest to da je liberalizam zapravo bliži tradicionalizmu nego modernizmu.

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Ethnic intolerance and ethnic conflict in the dissolution of Yugoslavia

Cited by 85 publications

References 15 publications

On the Knowledge of Politics and the Politics of Knowledge: How a Social Representations Approach Helps Us Rethink the Subject of Political Psychology

On the Knowledge of Politics and the Politics of Knowledge: How a Social Representations Approach Helps Us Rethink the Subject of Political Psychology

Serbian Stories of Translocation: Factors Influencing the Refugee Journey Arising from the Balkan Conflicts of the 1990s

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