About the project
The research project ' Spinning’ out of control: rhetoric and violent conflict. Representations of 'self' – 'other' in the Yugoslav successor states' will compare seven interethnic/interregional conflicts in the Yugoslav successor states with regard to how the 'Other' is represented in the public discourse.
Objectives
In particular we look for possible regularities in the relationship between types of rhetoric and types of outcomes (violent/non-violent).
The six conflicts we will study are: three cases of massive violence (Croatia 1991-92, Bosnia 1992-95, and Kosovo 1998-99), two cases of conflict with limited violence, Slovenia 1991 and Macedonia 2001 and one region which has experienced political tension, but without entering into a violent mode, Montenegro.
Financing
The Research Council of Norway
Project period
2007-2010
Publications
Gordan Djerić, (editor): Pamčenje i Nostalgija: Neki prostori, oblici, lica i naličja, (Beograd: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, 2009.)
Gordan Djerić, (editor): Intima javnosti: Okviri predstavljanja, narativni obrasci, strategije i stereotipi konstruisanja Drugosti u upečatljivim događajima tokom razgradnje bivše Jugoslavije : štampa, TV, film. Beograd: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju: Fabrika knjiga, 2008.
Pål Kolstø, (editor): Media discourse and the Yugoslav conflicts : Representations of Self and Other (Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009).