Seminar: The ‘Western Balkans' as a contact/conflict zone: Comparative ethnographies of conflict, ethnonationalism, and Europeanisation - Details

General information

Course name	Seminar: The ‘Western Balkans' as a contact/conflict zone: Comparative ethnographies of conflict, ethnonationalism, and Europeanisation
Course number	BA: ETH
Semester	SS 2018
Current number of participants	4
expected number of participants	35
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
participating institutes	Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies)
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Monday, 09.04.2018 14:15 - 15:45
Pre-requisites	Besonderheiten: Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.
Performance record	Studienleistung: Wird in der ersten Stunde bekannt gegeben. Modulleistung: Seminararbeit
Studiengänge (für)	BA 60 und 90 Ethnologie
SWS	2

Lehrende

• Dr. Goran Dokic

Rooms and times

No room preference

Monday: 14:15 - 15:45, weekly(13x)

Fields of study

• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie > Bachelor Ethnologie 60/90
• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie

Comment/Description

Course 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 countries of former Yugoslavia. More specifically we will focus on the use of wartime ethnonationalist rhetoric, the appearance of post-conflict politics of victimhood, and the 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.