Overview
- Advances scholarly understandings of the conditions that lead to ethnicized violent events and war in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Offers new ways of understanding ethnically motivated conflicts in contexts and situations beyond Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Introduces a new theory of affect and its instrumental role in promoting ethnic sentiments in Bosnia-Herzegovina
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“This pioneering work offers a new understanding of the sources of violent Serbian separatism in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s as well as the origins of ethnonational conflict globally. Drawing ably upon contemporary political science theory, Adis Maksic convincingly attributes Serbian ethnic violence to a synergistic combination of leadership agents relentlessly pursuing political change, widespread mobilization of material and human resources, and a carefully wrought narration of the Serb people’s past and present.” (Robert Donia, Research Associate, University of Michigan, USA)
“Why did Bosnia-Herzegovina, a land of peaceful coexistence, descent into violent ethnic cleansing seventeen months after its first multi-party elections? Central to any answer are the actions of the Serb Democratic Party, the party of Radovan Karadžić. In this path-breaking book Adis Maksic argues that affective appeals and performances fueled this party's rise into power and thereafter towards the destruction of Bosnia. Songs, music and marches made ethnic cleaning possible.” (Gerard Toal, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA)
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Book Title: Ethnic Mobilization, Violence, and the Politics of Affect
Book Subtitle: The Serb Democratic Party and the Bosnian War
Authors: Adis Maksić
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48293-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48292-7Published: 31 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83907-3Published: 21 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48293-4Published: 25 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 281
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Conflict Studies, European Politics, Ethnicity Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Political Sociology, Political History