Xenophobia, Fantasy and the Nation: The Logic of Ethnic Violence in Former Yugoslavia

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Title	Xenophobia, Fantasy and the Nation: The Logic of Ethnic Violence in Former Yugoslavia
URL	http://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/dep...
Description	This piece examines the emergence of violent ethnic warfare upon the fragmentation of the Socialist Federated Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991 and how this occurrence challenges previous theories of nationalism. The author argues that ethnic nationalism cannot be understood in terms of the modern rationalism employed by analysts of the phenomenon. Instead, Bowman argues that nationalism is "often constituted within political discourses which link passion and rationality in a manner which modernism - with its image of humankind as intellectively rational - is incapable of explaining or undermining."
Authors / Editors	Bowman, Glenn
Date Published	1994
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