Who Were the Yugoslavs? Failed Sources of a Common Identity in the Former Yugoslavia

Sekulić, Duško; Massey, Garth; Hodson, Randy

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“…Other studies have revealed how complex and/or unstable the categorization can be, for instance, when there is no congruence between national and civic identity (Greenfield & Yack, 1999) or as a consequence of political mobilization and developments in the sociopolitical reality (Horowitz, 1985). Examples of the latter phenomena can be seen among ethno-national minorities within nation-states that struggle to define their identity, such as Basques and Catalans in Spain or French speakers in Quebec (e.g., Maclure, 2003); in nations that are united within federative states or hope to disassemble the federative structure, such as those in the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union (Sekulic, Massey, & Hodson, 1994); and in states that wish to preserve their ethno-national identity in the face of challenges set by minorities, as in Macedonia, Germany, and Holland (Davis, 1997;Mendelsohn, 2002;Phinney, 1990;Yakobson & Rubinstein, 2008).…”

Section: Cognitive Aspects Of Identificationmentioning

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A Sociopsychological Conception of Collective Identity: The Case of National Identity as an Example

David

Bar‐Tal

2009

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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The present article delineates the complex structure of collective identity by incorporating two levels of analysis. The first, the micro level, pertains to individual society members' recognition of and categorization as belonging to a group, with the accompanying cognitive, emotional, and behavioral consequences. The second, the macro level, pertains to the notion of collective identity that denotes the shared awareness by constituents of a society of being members of a collective. This level is founded on two pillars: One pillar consists of generic features that characterize the collective identity. These features apply to macro-level collectives and allow a comparison among them. The other pillar is particular and consists of content characteristics that provide the unique features of the collective identity. The conceptual framework is applied to the analysis of the national collective identity as a case example. The contributions and implications of the described conception are discussed.

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Section: Cognitive Aspects Of Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Sociopsychological Conception of Collective Identity: The Case of National Identity as an Example

David

Bar‐Tal

2009

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

135

109

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“…However, the city had evolved into an urban centre and its population had identified strongly with Yugoslavism and its values of inter-ethnic cooperation. Of course, that was the case also with many other urban centres in Bosnia and Yugoslavia, where relatively higher percentages of individuals had declared themselves to be 'Yugoslavs' in state censuses Sekulic et al 1994), but the post-1990 election period was crucial in explaining the distinctiveness of the path that Tuzla was to follow. Tuzla maintained its strong inter-ethnic communal and associational links as well as undivided formal institutions and large public enterprises with their integrative role.…”

Section: Civic Mobilisation and The Leadership's Distancing From The mentioning

confidence: 93%

The ‘Paradox’ of Tuzla City: Explaining Non-nationalist Local Politics during the Bosnian War

Armakolas

2011

Europe-Asia Studies

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“…Thus, people could identify to different degrees with their ethnic (or subgroup) identities and with the superordinate Yugoslavian identity. The latter was salient in society (Sekulic, Massey, & Hodson, 1994), and was understood predominantly in a civic sense (Sekulic, 2004).…”

Section: Ethnic and Yugoslavian Identificationmentioning

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Collective memory of a dissolved country: Group-based nostalgia and guilt assignment as predictors of interethnic relations between diaspora groups from former Yugoslavia

Martinović

Jetten

Smeekes

et al. 2018

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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In this study we examined intergroup relations between immigrants of different ethnic backgrounds (Croats, Serbs, and Bosniaks) originating from the same conflict area (former Yugoslavia) and living in the same host country (Australia). For these (formerly) conflicted groups we investigated whether interethnic contacts depended on superordinate Yugoslavian and subgroup ethnic identifications as well as two emotionally laden representations of history: Yugonostalgia (longing for Yugoslavia from the past) and collective guilt assignment for the past wrongdoings. Using unique survey data collected among Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks in Australia (N = 87), we found that Yugoslavian identification was related to stronger feelings of Yugonostalgia, and via Yugonostalgia, to relatively more contact with other subgroups from former Yugoslavia. Ethnic identification, in contrast, was related to a stronger assignment of guilt to out-group relative to in-group, and therefore, to relatively less contact with other subgroups in Australia. We discuss implications of transferring group identities and collective memories into the diaspora.Keywords: ethnic identification, superordinate identification, group-based nostalgia, collective guilt assignment, interethnic contact, intergroup relations, Yugoslavia, Australia, immigrants SažetakCilj ovog istraživanja bio je ispitati odnose među emigrantima različite etničke pripadnosti (Hrvati, Srbi, Bošnjaci) koji potječu iz istog konfliktnog područja (teritorij bivše Jugoslavije) te su se skrasili u istoj zemlji imigracije (Australija). Istražili smo da li za ove grupe koje su ratovale u 90-tim godinama prošlog stoljeća međugrupni kontakti u Australiji ovise o stupnju jugoslavenske i etničke identifikacije kao i o dvama emocionalno nabijenim sjećanjima na prošlost, a to su jugonostalgija (čežnja za jugoslavenskim periodom) te pripisivanje krivnje za rat i zločine drugim etničkim grupama. Koristeći podatke skupljene putem ankete među 87 sudionika hrvatske, srpske i bošnjačke pripadnosti, uspostavili smo da je stupanj jugoslavenske identifikacije povezan s izraženijim osjećajem jugonostalgije i stoga s relativno češćim kontaktima s ostalim grupama u Australiji koje potječu s područja bivše Jugoslavije. Etnička identifikacija je, međutim, povezana s relativno rjeđim druženjima s drugim grupama, a razlog tome je činjenica da ljudi koji osjećaju snažnu etničku pripadnost okrivljuju druge grupe više za rat i zločine u usporedbi s onima kojima je etnički identitet manje izražen. Zaključci koji proizlaze iz ovog istraživanja pridonose diskusiji na temu prijenosa i očuvanja grupnih identiteta i kolektivnog sjećanja među dijasporom.

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Who Were the Yugoslavs? Failed Sources of a Common Identity in the Former Yugoslavia

Cited by 139 publications

References 18 publications

A Sociopsychological Conception of Collective Identity: The Case of National Identity as an Example

A Sociopsychological Conception of Collective Identity: The Case of National Identity as an Example

The ‘Paradox’ of Tuzla City: Explaining Non-nationalist Local Politics during the Bosnian War

Collective memory of a dissolved country: Group-based nostalgia and guilt assignment as predictors of interethnic relations between diaspora groups from former Yugoslavia

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