Producing and Cracking Kosovo Myths. The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Emergence and Critique of a New Ethnonationalism, 1984 – 1990

Stefanov Nenad ()
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Stefanov Nenad: Interdisciplinary Centre “Border Crossings – Crossing Borders. Berlin Centre for Transnational Border Research”, Humboldt University of Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2021, vol. 69, issue 2-3, 335-354

Abstract: The author analyses how the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) has gained significance for the new leadership of the League of Communists in Serbia since the mid-1980s. With its authority as a scientific institution, the SANU legitimised the political measures implemented to centralise and consolidate authoritarian rule. The new perception of the Yugoslav crisis, marked by ethnicisation and self-victimisation, used Kosovo as the focus and became the dominant stance on the war and authoritarian rule of the 1990s. However, as the author shows, a critique of these developments needs to be included in the analysis in order to adequately grasp the tense dynamics.

Keywords: ethnonationalism; populism; history of ideas; Serbia; Kosovo (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2021-0044

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