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Civic and Uncivic Values: Serbia in the Post-Milosevic Era: Serbia in the Post-Miloševic Era
. Ed(S): Listhaung, Ola; Ramet, Sabrina P.; Dulia, Dragana
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hardcover. Discusses Serbia's struggle for democratic values after the fall of the MiloA'evia regime provoked by the NATO war, and after the trauma caused by the secession of Kosovo. Editor(s): Listhaung, Ola; Ramet, Sabrina P.; Dulia, Dragana. Num Pages: 440 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 818.
Discusses Serbia’s struggle for democratic values after the fall of the Miloševic regime provoked by the NATO war, and after the trauma caused by the secession of Kosovo. Are the value systems of the post-Miloševic era true stumbling blocks of a delayed transition of this country? Seventeen contributors from Norway, Serbia, Italy, Germany, Poland and some other European countries covered a broad range of topics in order to provide answers to this question. The subjects of their investigations were national myths and symbols, history textbooks, media, film, religion, inter-ethnic dialogue, transitional justice, political party agendas and other related themes. The authors of the essays represent different scholarly disciplines whose theoretical conceptions and frameworks are employed in order to analyze two alternative value systems in Serbia: liberal, cosmopolitan and civic on the one hand, and traditional, provincial, nationalist on the other.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Central European University Press Hungary
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
468
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9789639776982
SKU
V9789639776982
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About . Ed(S): Listhaung, Ola; Ramet, Sabrina P.; Dulia, Dragana
Sabrina P. Ramet is a Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. She is also a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and a Research Associate of the Science and Research Center of the Republic of Slovenia, Koper. She is the author of 13 scholarly books. Ola Listhaug is a Professor of Political Science in the Department of Sociology and Political Science, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, and research group leader at the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO). Dragana Dulic is a Professor of Ethics and Social and Human Sciences at the Faculty of Security, University of Belgrade, editor of the journal Ljudska bezbednost / Human Security, and member of the Legal Council of the President of Serbia.
Reviews for Civic and Uncivic Values: Serbia in the Post-Milosevic Era: Serbia in the Post-Miloševic Era
"The overall thesis of the book is straightforward: unless Serbia moves from the uncivic values which still dominate public space and discourse, toward civic values, the prospects for democratic consolidation and liberal democracy in Serbia remains dim. The system of uncivic values, which flourished under the ancien régime (under Milošević), nationalism, irredintism, chauvinism, is still well and alive after 12 years of transition in Serbia. All things considered, this is well written and well researearched volume which can be read by wider audience, becond just academic community"
South Slav Journal
"The volume is largely successful in offering a useful guide to “the struggle for values in Serbia”. It is admirable that it includes contributions by those who are in a sense fighting in the very trenches of Serbian politics, but if the main utility of such volumes is in providing a useful map of the struggle, then the “view from the trenches” might not be too useful. A number of contributors in this volume tend to vacillate between outlining and analyzing, on the one hand, and anguished lamenting on the other. This reviewer tends to share their values and condemn the same enemies but finds the more judgmental chapters less useful for navigating the battlefi eld than the chapters that try to abstain from overt judgments. The best are those that are both in the trenches and able to rise above them for a more synoptic survey of the battlefield. A number of contributors do that admirably. Even better, when such a trench-fighter as Čolović analyzes his own ironic distance we get a welcome breather—a glimpse of Serbia not only as a seething pit of uncivic values, a quagmire of stubborn antimodernism, but as a place where there is even laughter."
Slavic Review
"The contributors to this volume demonstrate how traditional, provincial and nationalist values, referred to as uncivic, still obstruct the European aspirations of the biggest republic of the former Yugoslavia. In that respect, the authors adopt an analytical approach to examine the impact of civic and uncivic values in a variety of Serbian societal and political contexts... It seems reasonable to assume that the book will be of interest to an audience beyond just academia. I most warmly recommend this volume as an extremely useful and engaging addition to the literature in the field."
International Affairs
South Slav Journal
"The volume is largely successful in offering a useful guide to “the struggle for values in Serbia”. It is admirable that it includes contributions by those who are in a sense fighting in the very trenches of Serbian politics, but if the main utility of such volumes is in providing a useful map of the struggle, then the “view from the trenches” might not be too useful. A number of contributors in this volume tend to vacillate between outlining and analyzing, on the one hand, and anguished lamenting on the other. This reviewer tends to share their values and condemn the same enemies but finds the more judgmental chapters less useful for navigating the battlefi eld than the chapters that try to abstain from overt judgments. The best are those that are both in the trenches and able to rise above them for a more synoptic survey of the battlefield. A number of contributors do that admirably. Even better, when such a trench-fighter as Čolović analyzes his own ironic distance we get a welcome breather—a glimpse of Serbia not only as a seething pit of uncivic values, a quagmire of stubborn antimodernism, but as a place where there is even laughter."
Slavic Review
"The contributors to this volume demonstrate how traditional, provincial and nationalist values, referred to as uncivic, still obstruct the European aspirations of the biggest republic of the former Yugoslavia. In that respect, the authors adopt an analytical approach to examine the impact of civic and uncivic values in a variety of Serbian societal and political contexts... It seems reasonable to assume that the book will be of interest to an audience beyond just academia. I most warmly recommend this volume as an extremely useful and engaging addition to the literature in the field."
International Affairs