Seminar: Seminar: The Western Balkans as contact/conflict zone? Comparative ethnologies of conflict, ethnonationalism and Europeanisation - Details

General information

Course name	Seminar: Seminar: The Western Balkans as contact/conflict zone? Comparative ethnologies of conflict, ethnonationalism and Europeanisation
Course number	BA: GKV
Semester	SS 2016
Current number of participants	7
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Monday, 04.04.2016 10:15 - 11:45
Performance record	Studienleistung: Wird in der ersten Stunde bekannt gegeben Modulleistung: Hausarbeit
Studiengänge (für)	BA (60/90)
SWS	2
Miscellanea	Besonderheiten: Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.

Lehrende

• Dr. Goran Dokic (Dr. )

Rooms and times

No room preference

Monday: 10:15 - 11:45, weekly(14x)

Fields of study

• Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies)
• Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies) > Faculty of Philosophy I
• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie > Bachelor Ethnologie 60/90
• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften

Comment/Description

The region that is increasingly referred to as the Western Balkans (former Yugoslavia) has typically been characterized as a boundary between the East and West, an area of cultural cross-fertilization and a zone of endemic, violent conflict. The objective of this course is to critically assess such claims through a comparative analysis of a range of anthropological studies that deal with war and post-conflict transformation in the counties of former Yugoslavia. More specifically we will focus on the use of war-time ethnonationalist rhetoric, the appearance of post-conflict politics of victimhood, and development of systems of state
and non-state support for civilian and military victims of war. Through a comparative analysis of these issues the students will learn about the main similarities and differences in the nation-building processes in the countries of former Yugoslavia at a time when these are being integrated into the European Union.