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Table of Contents
ОглавлениеIntroduction:Serbia, Europe and National Identity
“First” and “Other” Serbia discourses on Europe and identity
The first layer: discourse analysis
How to find meaning in discourse
The second layer: Self/Other analysis
The assumptions of Self/Other analysis and theories of alterity
Friendly, non-radical and radical Others
Official discourses and textual material
Chapter 2:Brief Historical Context (1987–2012)
The 1990s: the nationalist-authoritarian regime
Serbia’s road to war: misuse of political symbolism
Political discontent: crises and the call for democratization
The opposition unites: Bulldozer Revolution
Transitional adjustments and the perspective of EU accession
Chapter 3:Best of Enemies: “First” and “Other” Serbia
The Evolution of “First” and “Other” Serbia
“First” Serbia’s evolution in the 1980s and 1990s and the SANU Memorandum
The post-2000 “Kosovo or Europe” debate
“Other” Serbia: beginnings and self-identification
The organizations and social actors until 2000
“Other” Serbia’s rift after 2000
Chapter 4:The Construction of “Europe”
The “Idea of Europe”: Inclusion and exclusion
Representation of Europe in the “First” Serbia discourse
Geography: “East for the West, and West for the East”
Military neutrality: Russia as part of the Self?
Anti-occidentalism: The West as decadent
The “Europe or Kosovo” dilemma
Discursive constructions of in- and out-groups in the “First” Serbia
Positive self-presentation and national self-glorification
The difference attributed to Europe and Other-Serbians
The representation of Europe in “Other” Serbia discourse
The disagreement between soft liberals and hard-liners
On Serbia’s duty to recognize its past
The discursive construction of in and out-groups in “Other” Serbia
The production of negative self-presentation
The Serbian Self is inferior to the European other
The hard-liners’ variant: Balkanist discourse
Serbian identity (in)capable of change
Positive identification of the European Other
Absence of development discourse
Chapter 5:Mapping the Debates: “Point of Departure” and “Missionary Intelligentsia”
The background to the debate: “Coming to the terms with the past”
Point of Departure: Serbian guilt
Hard-line liberals: Responsibility for war crimes
The Orthodox Church: Changing the cultural model
Re-conceptualized “discourse of non-interference”
The Missionary Intelligentsia Article
Other Serbia as the “enemy within”
“First” Serbia significant others
The construction of Serbian identity in the Missionary Intelligentsia debate
The concept of “good” and “bad” nationalism
Let us be human, even if we are Serbs
Image of the Serbs as brutal and violent
“First-Serbian” as a radical Other to being European
Chapter 6:Serbian “Auto-chauvinism” or “Identification with the Aggressor”
Program-based destruction of national culture
Identification with aggressors
Patriotism, national self-image and Kosovo
Is the past over yet? The evolution of Serbian national identities
“First” Serbia's return to national symbols during transition
“Other” Serbia: Sustaining the anti-nationalist orientation
Disparate visions of “Europe” in the Serbian elites: change and continuity
