War Community And Social Change Collective Experiences In The Former Yugoslavia 1st Edition Prof Dario Spini by Prof. Dario Spini, Guy Elcheroth, Rachel Fasel (auth.), Dario Spini, Guy Elcheroth, Dinka Corkalo Biruski (eds.) 9781461474906, 9781461474913, 1461474906, 1461474914 instant download after payment.

Collective experiences in the former Yugoslavia documents and analyses how social representations and practices are shaped by collective violence in a context of ethnic discourse. What are the effects of violence and what are the effects of collectively experienced victimisation on societal norms, attitudes and collective beliefs? This volume stresses that mass violence has a de- and re-structuring role for manifold psychosocial processes. A combined psychosocial approach draws attention to how most people in the former Yugoslavia had to endure and cope with war and dramatic societal changes and how they resisted and overcame ethnic rivalry, violence and segregation. It is a departure from the mindset that depict most people in the former Yugoslavia as either blind followers of ethnic war entrepreneurs or as intrinsically motivated for violence by deep-rooted intra-ethnic loyalties and inter-ethnic animosities.